Product Designer & Design Leader

Portfolio: georgebixby.com | Email: [email protected] | Phone: 1-917-710-5864

Experience

Chartbeat

Director of Product Design, May '18 – April '21

• Managed and coached team of product designers working across our core product and growth initiatives.
• Led the creation of a design system that increased design quality and decreased development time.
• Collaborated with Product and Marketing to implement a system for in-product messaging to drive feature adoption and up-sells.
• Led a cross-functional project to overhaul our product development process which led to measurable improvements for product teams and the exec team.
• Developed a standardized hiring process to improve outcomes and reduce bias.
• Created team’s first career ladders with separate IC and management tracks.

Sr. Product Designer, April '16 – May '18

• Led the design of Chartbeat’s first historical analysis dashboard, one of Chartbeat's most used features.
• Conducted generative user research to develop user personas and insights that informed our product roadmap.
• Collaborated with Design and Front End to update every product surface as part of a company rebrand.

General Assembly