How I lead
I've partnered with CEOs and executive teams at Vanta, Podium and Michael Kors, aligning leadership, sales, marketing and engineering on high-stakes growth work.
Helped define the charter for Vanta's first Self-Serve team, shaped how it worked using what I'd learned leading growth at Podium, sat on its interview loops, and led all of its design work.
I was its sole designer for two years and presented regularly to the CEO and CPO.
Brought the testing frameworks I used at Podium and Stash to Vanta, and defined a repeatable growth design process other teams now use.
At Farmers, I establish the AI design patterns and standards other teams build against, creating consistency across the acquisition funnel as AI capabilities roll out.
Two years mentoring early-career designers, plus designers and interns on my teams: craft, strategy, portfolios and interviews.
I also sat on interview loops for Vanta's Self-Serve team, and at Attentive I improved team processes for critiques, sprints and design QA.
At Podium I ran weekly sessions with onboarding managers and sales, led user research, and aligned with product marketing so the story held from first ad to first task.
At Farmers I serve as the design voice in business strategy, shaping roadmap priorities and scope before requirements are written.
After hitting the goal at Podium, I agreed with the executive team to stop iterating and set up a lighter quarterly review.
“Kevin was a strong member of our squad's leadership team, constantly pushing us towards the bigger picture around usability and how design could influence and positively impact the bottom line on our team's quarterly goals.”
“Kevin was a fantastic designer. His work was very detailed and he always asked a lot of questions. When I managed him, he would always impresses me with his sense of leadership.”
“Kevin is a combination of creative excellence and team spirit. … He's a bridge-builder, aligning diverse feedback and ideas with grace.”