Product design leader with 10+ years of experience building for Fortune 500 companies, billion-dollar unicorns, and high-growth startups with successful exits. Expert in leading design for 0-to-1 SaaS products.

What I bring

Shape product strategy

Business background coupled with design expertise makes me a highly sought-after strategic partner. A deep understanding of user needs + honed product & design intuition informs how I build for the future.

Defined roadmap and shaped multi-year vision for 4 major Dropbox products and ML-driven startup.

0 to 1 product development

Brought two new Dropbox products to market (DocSend VDR; Dropbox Sign Mobile app) to deliver on core user needs and solve most pressing problems. <6 mo. timeframe for each launch.

Designed and brought to market a patented predictive risk product powered by computer vision.

Care for people & product

I care deeply about the quality of the experiences I ship and the team around me. My love for innovation and solving problems that improve people’s lives shine through the experiences I bring to market.

I’m open to mentorship, speaking opportunities, and providing advisory services.

Work

Dropbox | Growth, Upsell system

  • Designed an upsell system to encourage feature adoption and upgrades. Educates free & trial users on which features are free vs paid.

Dropbox | Teams, Dashboard

  • Led redesign of Admin Dashboard. Boosted engagement with one-click “to-do” feature. Reduced Teams churn and drove ARR with an ROI feature tied to plan renewal.

Dropbox | Growth, Trial-end

  • Boosted trial conversion rate and reduced churn by redesigning the trial end experience with loss-aversion and win-back strategies.

Dropbox | DocSend, Virtual data room

  • Secured leadership buy-in and launched an MVP in six months to tap into the $2B VDR market, creating a new stream of ARR.

Dropbox | Sign, Mobile app

  • Launched a mobile app for the Sign product. A top priority for the business at the time. Led research, iteration on MVP, and shaped multi-year vision.

Betterview | Predictive Risk Score

  • Designed a patented, ML-powered product to assess and predict property risk. Major insurers replaced labor-intensive inspections with AI-powered workflow. My work assisted in the company’s acquisition in 2023.

Newsela | Teacher grading workflow

  • Drove significant platform growth by leading high-impact redesigns and feature work for teacher and student platforms.

  • "Taylor is absolutely a top notch designer. She is very thoughtful about design and always comes up with a way to make the complex intuitive and simple for users. As an engineer, by trade, I can tell you that Taylor speaks the language and understands how developers think."

    VP of Engineering

  • "Taylor made valuable contributions to the business through strategy and design execution. She stretched into a greater leadership role to cover management gaps. She continues to be a rising star, a role model for other designers, and a leader in craft."

    Director, Product Design

  • "Taylor is one of the best designers I've ever worked with."

    Staff Content Designer

  • "Taylor jumped into Growth and Monetization and immediately drove the Premium Badging project forward. She worked with a large amount of cross-functional partners to create a thoughtful system-wide approach."

    Product Manager

  • "Taylor shows ownership and care for the work that she does. When ramping up on the VDR work, she jumped on customer interviews and collaborated to define clear workflows and customer needs. She augmented this with a comprehensive competitive audit to drive the roadmap."

    Product Manager

  • "Taylor’s presence in crit and her feedback have helped the team think big picture. She’s helped the team learn ways to tell great visual stories about their projects, the complexities, and how to help their audience focus on key problems being addressed."

    Manager, Product Design