Stabilize teams
"Natalia has meticulous organization skills, is a facilitator and adapter, and keeps matters on track. She will lead her team by finding inclusive and inviting ways to succeed."
Head of Design and Manager
Improve buy-in and cross-functional collaboration
"About the new process: Just wanted to relay I was impressed by the design work presented by the team today. It demonstrated deep understanding of the core concepts. We’ve made sizable progress in the knowledge transfer process for each scenario."
Product Manager
Lead teams to successful outcomes
"You are a great manager. Your empathy and compassion was in stark contrast to [the company's] lack of both, and because you worked on the products I worked on and could understand them technically as well as the flows, I found your ability to give input and insight on my work problems was very valuable and helpful"
Former Reporting Designer
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About me
My experience managing design teams, coupled with my deep understanding of user-centered design principles, allows me to effectively bridge the gap between user needs and business goals. My expertise lies in developing design systems, streamlining workflows, and guiding projects from concept to completion.
I thrive at bringing people together to collaborate. Working together with leadership, product managers and engineers to drive vision and strategy, I lead teams to create human-centered digital products that solve the right problems and meet business goals.
I am passionate about equity in the workplace and women's leadership.
Leadership Experience
Advance 30% more design projects aligned with strategic goals within the first quarter as manager.
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Enhance consistency across products and quality - developing and maintaining a design language system.
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Support growth to over 100 customers in one year - Define strategy and operations.
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Remove friction between product, engineering and design. No more “blocked by design” sentiment - Establishing clear collaboration processes and priorities.
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30% improvement in competitive win-rate - CMS platform
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70% increase in production efficiency and enable consistent, scalable user
experiences - Implementation of design system.
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Mentored and coached designers, product managers and engineers to build high-impact careers. Planned and organized a 6-month mentorship program for the whole organization.
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Champion user-centered design principles through 1:1 mentoring and planning and hosting design feedback sessions.