Strategic UX Leadership:
Led end-to-end design for lesson creation platforms and a government-backed initiative encouraging young girls and women to explore coding. Defined and executed UX strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals, user needs, and technical feasibility.
  
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Research:      
Collaborated with educators, product managers, solution architects, and backend engineers to gather requirements and conduct user research. Facilitated interviews and co-creation workshops to identify pain points and inform user-centered design solutions. 

Iterative Design & Product Validation:  
Developed prototypes for stakeholder review and facilitated user testing events, incorporating feedback to enhance usability and market fit. These efforts increased feature adoption by 25% and strengthened product alignment with user needs.

Design Handoff & Documentation: 
Worked closely with engineers, solution architects, and product managers to design and implement new features. Created detailed Jira and GitLab tickets with user stories, acceptance criteria, and annotated screens to streamline development — improving developer efficiency by 40%.

Leadership & Community Building:   
Mentored junior designers and led a full-platform redesign to meet evolving educational and usability standards. Designed features to foster community engagement while ensuring compliance with strict data privacy and security regulations, particularly for minors.