I make complex designs simpler and teams stronger
Experience
4 years product design
3 years content design
Series A to Fortune 50
Consumer fintech & location specialist
Ex-pastry chef
Strengths
Organized collaboration queen
Sharing early & often
Building culture & systems
Driving projects to knock out useful, feasible designs
Word alchemy
Interests
Energized hybrid SF teams
Solving money problems
Cracking into health, transportation, & doing good
Early stage startups
Offline time to walk my dog, sleep well, & ride bikes
Work snapshots
Magazine Layout
Competitive Analysis
Content Design
Email Templating
Onboarding Redesign
Diagramming
Feature Exploration
What people are saying
“Melissa is a thought partner to any leadership team considering how product/business decisions impact customers and product identity.”
Mitchell Jones, Co-Founder
“Melissa is a naturally gifted Player/Coach and can drive complex cross-pillar design solutions at scale. She's an entrepreneur and problem solver at heart…. adaptable, capable of dreaming big, and determined enough to actually make things real. Don’t sleep.”
Jonathan Remulla, Product Design Leader, Educator, Coach
“She is not afraid to ask technical questions and is always doing her best to lighten the workload for engineering without comprising user experience.”
Faith Tan, Software Engineer
Personally
I love getting outside, big laughs, long rides, being the fun aunt, books and tea, and hanging with my #1 land seal, Taters.
Get to know my work
The password’s in my resume if I’ve applied to your company. To request the password, send a message on LinkedIn with job details.