Figma

Design Program Manager / Creative Producer skilled in building relationships and communicating complex concepts. Leads design team strategy to develop and accomplish team goals. Drives initiative and demonstrates excellent organization and communication in fast-paced dynamic environment and collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders for greatest potential impact. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.
Led design reviews and daily stand-ups to provide clear communication to stakeholders, functional team leads and executives regarding project status, resource requirements, issues, and priorities. Responsible for key program decision-making, including requirements gathering, scheduling, resource allocation, coordination of teams, and approval processes. Generated detailed reports outlining project progress, dependencies, risks, timeline schedules and budgets from inception to completion.
Partnered with TPM and Engineering to align on product development with design requirements, track progress on deliverables. Identified areas for improvement, conducted and reviewed Q&A testing of materials.
Selected Contributions:
Orchestrated end-to-end development of hardware production for the Apple Watch Ultra, including overseeing the creative development process and assisting cross-functional teams in creating meticulous product images using a variety of intricate materials.Managed creative agencies to ensure timely delivery of assets for Apple.com, Retail, and Channel markets. Tracked and reported finances against the overall budget, ensuring adherence to budgetary constraints.Leveraged extensive experience in Computer Graphic (CG) methodologies, utilizing tools such as Maya, Nuke, After Effects, and Photoshop.Collaborated with Marcom Brand teams, Product Marketing, Industrial Design, and Product Design stakeholders to ensure compliance with guidelines. Served as the central point of contact for product imagery creation across multiple platforms.
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I was responsible for overseeing the end-to-end production of UI for consumer hardware devices, encompassing screens, packaging, and localization. By collaborating closely with UI/UX, creative production, packaging, retail and digital teams, I effectively planned, tracked, and met deadlines for both new and existing screens. Employing tools such as Sketch, Figma, and Adobe After Effects, I created tailored UI screens and videos based on agency requirements. I ensured consistent and accurate UI imagery across various platforms, including Google Store Website, Retail, YouTube, Google TV, and social media while balancing production capacity and control of scope to ensure the consistency and accuracy of UI across all creative deliverables and 3rd party partners i.e. Food Network, Spotify, Netflix, HBO etc. Lead POC for all agencies for approvals of screens for commercial use. Working closely with designers and localization teams, I maintained consistency, relevance, and accuracy of UI screens.
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Identified queries for the Google Nest Hub to trigger the appropriate responses to ensure product accuracy. Responsible for TV and digital execution for new product launches. Delivered creative feedback to agencies based on brand guidelines, creative strategy, and any input from partners or internal stakeholders. Worked cross-functionally to support retail, Gstore (online), and partners for all media assets and cross-functional team approvals.Responsible for TV and digital execution for new product launches. Delivered creative feedback to agencies based on brand guidelines, creative strategy, and any input from partners or internal stakeholders. Worked cross-functionally to support retail, Gstore (online), and partners for all media assets and cross-functional team approvals.Selected Contributions:
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Selected Contributions:
Responsible for reviewing and approving incoming requests to use brand assets, UI, and trademarks for Facebook and subsidiaries including Instagram; from both internal sales, agencies and companies, globally, as well as project management of the newBrand Resource Center. Worked closely with Facebook’s legal team with high profile brands and controversial requests.
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Head of all brand permissions requests for Google Inc. and subsidiaries, for internal sales teams and external agencies and the general public. Worked with cross-functional teams to ensure all aspects of marketing communications are on brand, focused on the user, and employ best practices. Managed brand permissions; reviewed brand opportunities and worked with partners to help them make the most of the Google brand. Constantly push the boundaries on brand and digital marketing efforts and what can be done to drive leading edge efforts.Selected Contributions:
Translated business unit objectives and strategies to develop brand portfolio objectives, strategies and manage business unit growth in ecommerce.Evaluated and worked cross-functionally to optimize merchandise mix, SKU’s, pricing by leveraging economies of scale. Analyzed and tracked product and results against KPI’s and financial goals. Developed 360 digital marketing campaigns across online vehicles and customer segments, both B2C / B2B. Led and executed marketing tactics to generate buzz and brand awareness through various social media & sharing platforms, consumer engagement, relationship management with non-profit organizations, magazine / online community editors, industry experts, blogger/vloggers that resulted in local and national earned media coverage.
Selected Contributions:
Strategic planning to drive business opportunity, tracking eCommerce trends and technologies; evaluating relevance to the organization and proposing courses of action. Preserved brand identity, voice and visuals in all marketing materials, and packaging on and offline. Technical development and operations – overall management of development prioritization, sizing, development, and implementation; as well as production planning and monitoring of the B2B systems.
Selected Contributions:
Critical Thinking
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