Brittany C. Oglesby
Design Director, Enterprise software
Boston, MA · (617) 555 0131 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/brittanycoglesby
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Fifteen years in design, six leading design teams as a design director
INDUSTRIES
Enterprise software, health technology, education technology, professional services
SPECIALTIES
Design systems and component libraries, craft standards, hiring and portfolio review, brand identity systems
SYSTEMS
Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Sketch, After Effects, Frame.io, Asana
CREDENTIALS
Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies; member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts in graphic design, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Executive Summary
Design director responsible for the design function at a software company, covering fourteen designers across brand and product. Fifteen years of experience. Owns the craft bar, the design system, the hiring loop and the critique cadence, and spends most of her week making other people's work better rather than making her own.
Signature Achievements
- Built a shared design system and component library that cut average time from design to first build on a new screen from nine days to three.
- Grew the design team from six to fourteen with a structured portfolio review and take home exercise, and kept first year retention at one hundred percent.
- Raised the product to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines double A standard across two hundred and ten screens, closing an enterprise customer requirement worth one point eight million dollars in annual contract value.
- Wrote the craft rubric used in critique and performance review, ending the pattern of design feedback that came down to taste.
- Led the brand identity refresh and delivered the guidelines and the component library as one system rather than two documents.
- Introduced a weekly critique cadence and a design quality review before release that reduced post launch visual defects by about seventy percent.
Professional Experience
Design Director
Charles Basin Software, Boston, MA 2021 to present
Enterprise software company of nine hundred people; owns the design function of fourteen designers across product, brand and design systems, reporting to the chief product officer.
- Sets and enforces the craft standard for every piece of design that ships, through critique, design review and a written rubric.
- Owns the design system and the component library and staffs a two person team to maintain them against the front end code base.
- Runs hiring end to end, including portfolio review, exercise design and interview training for the panel.
- Manages three design managers and holds a career conversation with every designer twice a year.
- Represents design in quarterly planning and negotiates where design capacity goes against product priorities.
Design Manager
Fenway Ridge Health Technology, Boston, MA 2017 to 2021
Health technology company of three hundred people; managed seven designers across two product lines.
- Introduced the first design system at the company and moved four product teams onto it.
- Established accessibility testing as part of the definition of done for every design.
- Built the design career ladder with the people team and moved five designers up a level.
Senior Designer
Back Bay Form Studio, Boston, MA 2011 to 2017
Twenty person studio delivering identity and digital work for education and professional services clients.
- Designed identity systems, guidelines and websites for fourteen clients.
- Led design on three of the studio's largest engagements and mentored two junior designers.
- Built the studio Figma library and the internal critique format.
Licensure and Certification
Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies, International Association of Accessibility Professionals
Member, American Institute of Graphic Arts, Boston chapter
Education
Master of Fine Arts in graphic design, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 2011
Bachelor of Arts in art history, Boston University, 2008
Core Skills
Design team leadership · Design systems · Component libraries · Craft standards and critique · Hiring and portfolio review · Accessibility standards · Brand identity systems · Career development · Design operations · Cross team planning