James McGarry, MBA

Google

UX Design Lead - YouTube Support

UX Design Lead - YouTube Partner Program

InVision

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Kohl's

Product Leader | Design 

RecruitingTool.io

Founded a full-scale recruitment tool to streamline workflows across a multitude of relevant platforms
and devices to improve the efficacy and ease of candidate management.
Recipient of the “First Place in Show” at a Techstars weekend in 2020.
Presently in platform development and sourcing to secure investors.

Founder

Gorilla Training Group

Founder & CEO

Vudu - Movies & TV

Lead design vision across all platforms (Roku, HTML5, Android TV, Apple TV, Web, mWeb, Android Native, iOS, Windows). Manage and coordinates development of new products and improvements to existing products. Evaluate and ensure design feasibility and design optimization.

Provide direction and guidance to product design teams to meet timely deliveries.

Develop best practices to ensure smooth and continuous product development processes.

Provide trainings to team members to improve technical skills.

Recommend new technologies and tools to optimize product design processes.

Head of Product Design

Facebook

Lead Design Operations for Privacy and Data Use at Facebook.

Developed program for company wide cross-functional product reviews.

Unified Legal Regulatory Data and Design request, leading to decrease in lead time and
increase in accuracy for requested assets.

Progressed design education across Facebook through design for non-designers education.

Developed organizational onboarding program for Facebook Privacy.

Design Program Manager

Dell

Driving Digital Transformation through user focused strategy, equipping designers across the company through the development of Design Operations functions.

Designed and implemented centralized design education, mentorship program, common practice and the foundations of the Dell Design Practice Leads.

Developing design community, training materials in coordination with Dell Pivotal Lab Director. Ensuring company vision is balanced with user empathy to drive a modern approach to software development.

Mentoring teams, developing hiring and onboarding process for new UX teams in all location (India, China, United States).

Lead designer on a new search platform in under 3 months. Unified search platform leveraged ML to empower new experiences and increase e-commerce conversions and gross sales margins.

Champion in Pivotal methodology and graduate of the Pivotal Trainer program.

Principal Product Designer

NTT DATA

Lead Development of process for agile teams with Healthcare client. 

Developed sustainable process that spans product management and design. Client had no dedicated designers on staff, the problem was to find a framework and design system that would be usable by Product Owners (PO) and empower the agile development process.

Coordinated with senior leadership to align business strategy and product ownership to ensure user empathy and a user centered approach spanned all levels of the development process.

Lead User Experience Designer

EdgeRock Technology Partners, A CDI Company

Collaborate with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience

Execute all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering

Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks

Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas

Present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders

Conduct user research and evaluate user feedback

Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards

Senior UX/UI Designer

Design Lead @ YouTube | Equity advocate | Veteran

Highly innovative, creative visionary with direct experience and ongoing knowledge surrounding all facets of user-centric experiences and next-generation product strategy. 

Proven track record streamlining effective initiatives to empower start-up companies to establish brand vision and optimize growth opportunities. Natural leader adept at directing a globally diverse team of professionals while producing a culture conducive to creativity, collaboration, and communication. Additionally, possesses 6 years US Army Special Operations experience within the psychological combat team in Iraq, running all U.S. hosted marketing materials and socially influencing changes.

Staff UX Designer

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Design Lead - Ads Privacy and Safety at Google!

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