Working Together: What It Entails
Let's set clear expectations about what you get and how it works.
Most design relationships fail somewhere mid-engagemnt, while wondering why this suddenly feels like design therapy, or a very expensive critique that never seems to end. That’s not me. I have little patience for ivory-tower design approaches that get teams in trouble for “taking too long,” and a strong bias toward practicality, traction, and forward motion.
Packages & Logistics
Let's get explicit about logistics. All engagements are remote. We work over Zoom, inside your existing tools. How embedded I am depends on the engagement you choose.
There are two ways we can work together, reflected in the two packages I offer:
Best for Seed & Pre-Seed
This is intentionally light-touch. It’s designed for teams who need senior design judgment, on an ongoing basis, just not daily. It’s often a good fit for seed-stage companies.
Two scheduled Zoom calls per month.
You bring real screens, flows, or questions.
I review, critique, and help you reason through design decisions.
No day-to-day Slack presence.
No execution work between calls unless explicitly agreed.
Don’t let “light-touch” mislead you. We get solid work done in those calls. Teams typically leave with clear direction and enough confidence to move forward for a few weeks before we regroup.
$800/m
Best for Series A transition
Designed for teams who need active design leadership now, but aren’t yet ready to make a full-time hire. This is most often the case for Series A companies navigating scale.
Partial-time remote engagement, up to 10hrs a week.
Ongoing async communication inside your existing tools.
Direct collaboration with product and engineering.
Active involvement in the design system.
In this package, I’m part of the day-to-day conversation. I help untangle decisions as they arise, reduce rework, and create enough structure that the system can hold as the team grows.
$7,800/m
only one opening currently available
What I Work On, And What I Don't
Teams usually come to me with a vague sense that their UI needs to “be better.” That may or may not be true. What is almost always true is that UI quality is a downstream effect of how well a team handles a much smaller set of foundational problems.
Below are the things I do, and don't, work on. Your company may only need a subset of them—but even tackling one of these deeply can unlock disproportionate value for both your team and your users.
Design Intelligence Handoff Package
Every engagement concludes with a practical record of what we did and why.
It typically includes recorded working sessions with transcripts, key design decisions and their rationale, any other documentation and, most usefully, guidance on how to load this material into an AI system so future team members can interrogate past decisions instead of guessing.
In parallel, I help you prepare for my replacement. I can help shape the job description and expectations, as well as participate in interview loops if you'd like.