Director of Design Systems & Product Infrastructure
Julie is a low-ego, outcome-driven design leader who recently spent 5 years at Meta leading teams across Design Systems, Brand and AI. She's drawn to broken products and the people problems behind them. Where others see a mess, she sees the business opportunity.
She specializes in turning high-leverage complexity into clear, actionable direction, building the 0-to-1 frameworks that let global platforms scale without compromising craft. She doesn't just design how a product looks. She defines the logic that makes it work.
Julie led the systemic modernization of public conversation for 3 billion people, partnering with AI Engineering to co-architect the ranking logic for comments. She moves design upstream, treating product logic as a primary training signal for the model itself. She operates across the entire stack, from meticulous design details to long-term system architecture. At Meta, her work served as the source of truth for leadership health and the foundation for executive-level reviews.
She leads through influence and builds with intention, bringing the energy and clarity needed to create cohesion across fragmented surfaces.
Outside of work, Julie's world is food, family, crafts, and plants. Her partner Anthony is a chef, so they explore culture through food and love sharing it with their kids, Cara and Jack. They're usually home doing crafts while their dogs Henry and Birdie hover nearby, hoping whatever they're making is food. Julie got really into rare plants and propagation during the pandemic. She has since leveled up to building a Walstad aquarium, a self-sustaining tank where the fish and plants keep each other in balance, so it rarely needs a water change. She also loves learning about native plants and doing her part for the ecosystem she lives in.
Work She’s Drawn To
Julie does her best work on the hardest problems. The tangled, high-stakes ones that most people avoid are the ones she runs toward.
She cares deeply about building healthy culture with the people she works with. She genuinely believes the she is lucky to solve the problems we do, building products that become tools for other people's creativity. This is work worth being grateful for.
A person's attention is the most valuable thing they have, and Julie believes it's design's job to protect it.
Design and AI is where she loves to build. Not just shipping features, but building the frameworks that turn messy human behavior into something models can learn from, so every experience feels trustworthy and useful at scale.
She understands the best leaders grow their people as carefully as they grow the product. Julie shows up as the energy a team needs, does the heavy lifting gladly, and leaves both the people and the product stronger than she found them.