Seven years, five roles: Visual Designer, Senior Product Designer, Design Manager, Senior Product Designer II, and Senior Manager of Product Design.

• Created Spark, Cars.com’s first design system: led three months of design research, named the system, wrote the component CSS, and built the documentation site. Spark became the de facto frontend system for Cars.com’s replatforming, with dozens of frontend engineers building on it and 10 to 15 product designers working in it.
• Managed the dedicated Design System team as a player-coach Design Manager, continuing to build while coaching two designers.
• Led design-tooling modernization as a remote senior IC, upskilling the broader design organization through the transition.
• Managed and mentored Senior and Principal Product Designers while defining organization-wide tooling, systems, and cross-functional design practices.