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**Responsibilities**

* Managing all aspects of design operations for One Design Company

* Partnering with Head of Design to coordinate all design process creation and governance for design teams org-wide

* Collaborated with the Head of People to formalize our onboarding tools and processes

* Orchestrating Design Team ceremonies

* Organizing offsite + design socials

* Creating internal processes and tooling with Notion, Miro & Figma platforms

**Highlights**

* Built a scalable knowledge hub that is employed across multiple teams and used in the onboarding process

* Created a reusable onboarding checklist + template in Miro that has scaled to every role in the company

* Devised a company-wide L&D plan with role out strategy that includes curriculum that spans multiple levels of experience from entry-level to leadership roles

* Pioneered a new project database to track details of all ongoing projects, including: project overview & goals, client background information, financials (estimated budget vs actuals, estimated weeks vs actuals, investment), teams, status, agreements & outages, schedules & milestones and documentation.

* Designed and established a "Design Process Playbook" to align our team on a core set of tools and processes that comprise the critical offerings of the studio

Responsibilities & Highlights

Design & Research Ops Director

Silver Davey Award for Activism

Silver Award

Websites and Mobile Sites, Sports Honoree

For The Original Harlem Globetrotters website

Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus in Web, Multimedia and Information Resource design.

I directed the overall design strategy and brought all teams into a cohesive working relationship, including design, UX, content strategy, and development. I ensured that design objectives matched strategic business goals on the customer and end-user sides and set the overall vision for each project company-wide. I enjoyed leading our teams and fine-tuning processes to create a better product for each client.

Previously Experience Director at Mightybytes
Responsible for communicating strategic goals into actionable design solutions, establishing the conceptual and stylistic direction for design staff, and orchestrating their work and the work of production and developer team members.

Chief Design Officer

With a high focus on the user and engagement at every level, I concentrated on setting the intention for the project with client workshops, user research, sketch sessions, and agile story mapping and road map planning sessions. I was involved with in-house to startup to enterprise-level clients and enjoyed the challenges each type of client brought.

Senior UX Strategist, UX Product Owner

I led multiple creative projects each year, emphasizing strong client engagement and project and team management. My goal was to democratize design for our clients and team members through close cultivation and direction, process alignment, creative visioning, and delivery.

Creative Director

Currently, I lead the Design & Research Ops practice cultivating and enabling our design teams to increase their impact on clients, organizations, and industries we serve.

Amber Vasquez

2023