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I'm looking for a role where my comprehensive skill set and deep passion for design can drive significant impact. Here's what I envision for my next role:

🚀 A Fluid, High-Autonomy Role: I excel in environments blending freedom with responsibility. I aim to utilize my hybrid strengths to enable rapid, but thoughtful, end-to-end design solutions. I seek a role offering high autonomy, encouraging initiative and impactful decision-making that benefits the product and organization at large—independently driving design projects to completion, while also collaborating with my team to enhance our collective output and impact.

🤝 Opportunity to Foster Design Maturity: I am passionate about not only advancing my own expertise in design but also elevating the practices within my workplace. I seek a company that prioritizes quality and recognizes the value of mature design practices. I aspire to deepen my craft further, mentor my teammates, and help cultivate a culture where design excellence is a shared goal.

🌱 Collaborative and Growth-Oriented Environment: Collaboration is key to unlocking innovative solutions, and I aim to join a team that values open communication, diverse perspectives, and a collective approach to problem-solving. The ideal environment would be one where feedback is constructive, and every challenge is seen as an opportunity for growth, both personally and professionally.

🏗️ Scalable Design: Leverage systems thinking to develop comprehensive designs and systems that ensure consistency, scalability, and efficiency across all user touchpoints, fostering an environment where creativity and technical precision coalesce to enhance the overall product experience. Details in a Figma component matter just as much as code execution.

🫶 Leadership Opportunities: While my primary joy comes from my craft as an individual contributor, I have previously led and continue to be enthusiastic about people management. Ideally, this would involve mentoring 1-3 team members, guiding them through projects, and fostering their professional growth, all while ensuring our collective efforts align with our company’s vision and goals. I have found this blend of smaller scale people management opportunity leaves me room to continue practicing my craft and be an effective manager and contributor.

📢 Championing Design: I aspire to join an organization that not only respects, but prioritizes design and user research. Elevating design maturity—by embedding best practices, advocating for user-centered decision-making, and leveraging research to inform design—is paramount to me. I seek a company that recognizes the strategic value of design as a cornerstone for innovation, user satisfaction, and shareholder return.

✨ Impactful Work That Makes a Difference: I seek to design products that not only meet user needs but also positively impact their lives, whether through usability improvements, sustainable practices, or solving real-world problems. I find an equal amount of importance and joy working on both consumer facing products, enterprise experiences, and internal tooling.

🏢 Remote or Hybrid: Since 2020, I've been thriving in a remote work environment and am well-suited to a fully remote position. However, a part of me is looking to explore a hybrid schedule that allows for in-office collaboration. Living in Reston, Virginia, I enjoy a convenient commute across Northern Virginia and D.C.