Hi, I'm Eileen.

I've been designing products that are integral to people's everyday lives for over a decade from redesigning Activity at Slack, creating growth products like Wrapped at Spotify, and helping people access video and audio journalism at the New York Times. Currently, I'm a principal product designer at Slack leading all things Activity and triage.

I love defining those complex, gnarly problem spaces and working directly with product, engineering, research, and leadership to build software that is simple, elegant, and impactful.

When I'm not designing, you'll find me painting, entertaining my kid, and tending to my garden.

Craft high-quality experiences

Sweating layout, hierarchy, and motion until an interface feels obvious, then holding that bar all the way through implementation.

Design strategy

Turning scattered signals from research, data, and leadership into a single clear direction a team can actually build.

AI-native design process

Tightening the loop between idea and shipped by prototyping in the codebase, going deeper in discovery, and shipping production-quality polish PRs.

Grace under pressure

A steady hand that stays cool and collected when timelines compress and scope shifts.

Experience

Slack

2022–present
Remote

Principal Designer, Core

Led design for redesign of Activity in Slack, increasing MAU by 8.3%. Partnering with executives to shape company-wide design vision and evolve Slack's information architecture for intuitive global navigation.

Principal Designer, Slack Connect

IC design lead for Slack Connect, Slack's fastest-growing product and strongest retention and upgrade lever (4M+ WAU, 57% of upgrade trials, 4x faster growth than the next product). Led a team of four designers across three workstreams, defined product strategy for external collaboration, and drove 0→1 exploration for events and external workspaces on Slack.

Principal Designer, Growth

Pioneered experimental design initiatives that reimagined Slack's onboarding experience, dramatically simplifying users' mental models and creating frictionless pathways to engagement.

Spotify

2019–2022
NYC

Product Design Manager

Led design for a product area focused on user acquisition through delight and differentiated product experiences, including the viral Wrapped campaign and interactive web games.

Senior Product Designer

Transformed Spotify.com with a player-first approach and SEO-optimized design that dramatically increased engagement. Led design for the Spotify mobile web player, increasing MAU to 1M+. Pioneered scalable marketing frameworks for native apps.

The New York Times

2016–2019
NYC

Senior Product Designer

Designed a variety of immersive multimedia products, including video, audio, photography, VR, AR/360° video, and voice. Worked directly with other designers, PMs, developers, newsroom stakeholders, and other teams to design on slideshows, video, 360° video, and audio player, and audio asset pages.