Alessandra is a Product Designer & Director based in San Francisco.

Previously designing and leading teams at charity: water, Hillary for America, Dropbox and most recently Spotify.

Over ten years of leadership and design experience, driven by a passion for leveraging technology to make a positive social impact.

About

Currently, helping an ed-tech startup to establish foundational design practices as a means for enabling growth.

Current Projects

Spotify

I was the Head of Product Design for Podcasts. I took a design team of one and grew it to 15 designers, including 2 design managers. Together, we built powerful tools for podcasters and their teams that were necessary for creating and editing podcasts using AI tooling, growing their audience, connecting with fans, and making a living off their work.

Dropbox

I held a few different roles at Dropbox ranging from Lead Product Designer, responsible for building a suite of new collaboration tools such as watermarking, time based comments, annotations and e-signature, to Design Manager responsible for a cross functional team of 10+ people, developing Dropbox Capture, Dropbox Replay and Dropbox Paper.

Hillary for America

Designed across complex and diverse problem spaces such as voter registration, donations, digital organization tools. Developed a mobile app to keep our supports engaged. In 6 months our team shipped 50+ products, raising $960M and securing the votes of 66M Americans.

charity: water

Designed an industry defining crowdfunding tool, direct donation platform and internal software to help our partners visualize the status of water projects around the world and provide sustainable water solutions for more than 5M+ people in 22 countries.

Contact

Write me an email or message me on Linkedin.