First design hire at Helson. No process, no system, no one to ask. Left with 80+ components, five products, and 500+ people who could finally do their jobs without friction.
I joined Helson Software Solutions with no design team, no process, no component library, and no one to ask "is this right?" I was the company's first dedicated designer — and I had to build the function from scratch.
That meant deciding what usability testing looked like, what a design review meant, and how to talk to developers who'd never worked with a designer before. Uncomfortable in exactly the right way.
By the time I left: 80+ reusable components, a design system governing five products, 40+ user flows, and 500+ people whose daily workflows I'd rethought from the ground up. The most valuable thing I learned wasn't a method. It was how to build conviction in the absence of a playbook.
Open to full-time, contract, and internship roles. Enterprise UX, AI-native design, workflows that need someone who actually digs into them.