Hi, I’m Eileen.
I've been designing products that are integral to people’s everyday lives for over 14 years from redesigning Activity at Slack, creating growth products like Wrapped at Spotify, and helping people access video and audio journalism at the NYT. Currently, I’m a principal product designer at Slack leading all things Activity and triage.
I work directly with product, engineering, research, and leadership to shape direction, not just execute on it. I thrive in identifying and defining complex, gnarly problem spaces and designing elegant solutions.
When not designing, you'll find me painting and tending to my garden in Washington, D.C. 🌱
I am on maternity leave until fall 2026.
Experience
Slack
Principal Designer, Core
2024-
Leading the redesign of Activity, Slack's second most-used surface, from a limited notification feed into a unified triage and productivity hub. Reframed the core problem from recall to triage, built alignment across product and engineering leadership, and shipped a new version now used by 60% of Enterprise WAU daily.
Principal Designer, Slack Connect
2023-2024
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). As Design Lead for the Network product area, defined strategic vision across three cross-functional teams while mentoring a high-performing design team of three, directly influencing product roadmaps and business outcomes.
Principal Designer, Growth
2022-2023
Pioneered experimental design initiatives that reimagined Slack’s onboarding experience, dramatically simplifying users’ mental models and creating frictionless pathways to engagement.
Spotify
Product Design Manager
2020-2022 / NYC
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. As a designer, defined the player-first IA vision for Spotify.com (+2M MAU), identified an SEO UX strategy that drove +4.4M incremental Y1 visits, grew the mobile web player to 1M+ monthly users, and shipped podcast quote sharing that increased share rates by 30%. As a manager, led the in-product design team for Wrapped campaign for two years; managed, mentored and developed a diverse design team across multiple product portfolios.
Senior Product Designer
2019-2020
The New York Times
Senior Product Designer
2017-2019 / NYC
Led design for a variety of multimedia products at the NYT during rapid expansion of audio, video, and immersive AR/VR formats. Designed the video and audio players; the audio story page that gave The Daily and other podcasts a permanent home on their web & app platforms; and the slideshow experience that served 38M pageviews within 48 hours of launch. All three are still live and largely unchanged almost a decade later.
Product Designer
2016-2017
A Different Engine (agency)
Senior Interaction Designer
2015-2016 / Brooklyn
Selected clients: Comcast, ABC News, Kaiser Permanente, Cox Cable
Interaction Designer
2014-2015
Previous Positions & Internships: University of Notre Dame - Office of Sustainability, Canon USA
2010-2014
Education
University of Notre Dame
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Visual Communication Design