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Meghan Arthur

Product, Design, UX & Growth Strategy l ****.******@*****.*** l 573-***-****

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SUMMARY & SKILLS

Product Leader with 11 years experience across diverse industries in Product, Design and Organizational Leadership. I am looking for a Product Leadership role at a fast growing, values oriented company. Drawing on experience in Product Management & Design, Growth Strategy, UX/UI design, Web Design, Mobile Apps, Brand Development and Art Direction, I’m a total Product nerd. With a BS in Research Psychology & Human Factors in Design, I consider the Customer Job To Be Done to explore Product-Market fit and creating the Product Go-to-Market Strategy. EXPERIENCE

MagicLinks, Venice, CA - Director of Product 2020 - PRESENT Industry: Social Commerce, SaaS, Creator Economy, Influencer Marketing Brand Portfolio short list: L’Oréal, Best Buy, Afterpay, Nasty Gal, Sephora, Nordstrom, LuluLemon, Everlane, Elf, Urban Outfitters, BuyBuy Baby, Fendi, Lacoste, Glossier, Target, Walmart

● Key Skills: Worked hand-in-hand with Development, Data Science, CEO, VP Revenue, VP of Growth to create 10+ products, developed Go-to-Market strategy, worked with Data Science to drive decisions in Product, scaled from 1 to 2 teams, lead team of three DRs, created & maintained 3 quarter Product Roadmap.

● Reported to CEO

Catalyte.io, Chicago, IL - Director of Product Design 2017 - 2020 Industry: Agile software Engineer Training, AI-data driven testing, Agile Productivity SaaS B2B Clients: Microsoft, Nike, CaseNet, At&t, Anthem, Johns Hopkins, StubHub, Geico, Vistana, Under Armor, AAA, Aetna

● Key Skills: Scaling Teams (from 1 to 6), establishing UX COE, trained Jr. team members, Culture scaling, B2B Customer Growth Strategy, UX Research, Product Management, Stakeholder communications.

● Reported to CPO

Product, UX & Growth Strategy Consultant, Kansas City 2016 - 2017 Industry: Supply Chain logistics, Banking, Telecommunications, SmartHomes, Elder care, E-commerce, Brand Innovation B2B Clients: Sprint, Hallmark, CLO, Damascus Edge, Axos Bank, Littler Mendelson, KC Southern

● Key Skills: Innovation, Growth Strategy, Human Centered Design, Customer Experience, Supply chain Innovation, Banking applications, Telecom Chat-bot design, Change Management, Agile Coaching.

● Reported to CEO (of Consulting firm)

REFERENCES

Sarah Gibbons, Chief Growth Officer, Nakatomi.com

Eddie Shek, Chief Technology Officer, TrackX & Interna Chris Brown, Principal UX Designer

Nico Loya, Product Owner, MagicLinks (previous DR) EDUCATION University of Kansas, Lawrence — BS Research Psychology September 2004 - May 2008, GPA 3.95

Completed research on Human Factors in Design, Motivational Psychology and French Language. Certification Scrum Alliance Product Owner October 2018 Meghan Arthur

Product, Design, UX & Growth Strategy

MagicLinks, Venice, CA — Director of Product

August 2020 - Current

MagicLinks was recognized by INC5000 as one of the top 500 fastest growing companies of 2020 & 2021. MagicLinks is a Social Media and Influencer Marketing SaaS two-sided marketplace for Brands & Creators.

● Teams scaled from 11 to 55 and deployed ten+ new products to market.

● Developed Customer Job to be Done and Growth strategy via interviews & personas,

● Products including the Gifting Suite which increased Brand Sales by 1.2m in the first two quarters.

● Contributions included launching the Agile framework, hiring our VP of Growth, establishing UX maturity standards, Sustaining innovations like contract automation which saved our influencer team 500k per annum, creating our sustainable consumer shopping app ADVO, our Linking solution InBio, Top Products which tripled our monthly active users, and building my team of Product Owners, Designers and Strategists.

● Created three quarter Product Roadmap, Key business KPIs and SMART Goals, partnered with Data Scientists to make Data-lead Product decisions, aided in SOC II certification, & created procurement analysis for Segment.com, ProductBoard.com, Optimizely for AB testing and others.

● Created and presented materials at Quarterly Board meetings.

● Established Net Promoter Score, and automated our Creator journey via Gamification and Game theory. Catalyte.io, Remote — Director of Product Design

August 2017 - June 2020, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework Catalyte.io upskills developers from nontraditional backgrounds for roles in software engineering using AI and machine learning to source promising candidates.

● Created six products from creation to market.

● Initially as the sole Sr UX Designer, then building and training junior designers to support five teams. This included: creating the Product vision, Design and prototypes for Product organization. Supporting developers through their sprint to ensure Design Quality.

● Created UI Pattern library for brand consistency. Created Brand Identity, Brand and Style Guide.

● Lead a team of associate User Experience Designers and coach/oversee their professional growth as a UX designer or Associate Product owner.

● Worked with key stakeholders, VPs, and other groups within the Product Organization to create business cases and requirements for upcoming product initiatives. Communicate product vision and scope/value of initiatives to scrum teams, stakeholders, and execution teams.

● Owned Product Roadmap and worked with Engineering Teams to ensure alignment with priorities. Sera.App — Founder

Sera.app is a media company, mobile app and web platform which supplies inspiring content while helping fund female-led businesses–every dollar raised is given to a woman in the developing world to start a business. The user chooses a woman to support, then watches videos on anything -- from how to surf to how to do your makeup. All the ad-sourced revenue from the women you chose goes to support her business, her children and her community. We call this “Micro-volunteering” And anyone can do it from anywhere.

● Solo founder, Founded in 2014

● Completed Founder Institute 2020

Community Living Opportunities, Kansas City, Consultant — UX Design Strategist November 2016 - August 2017

As UX Designer of native mobile application responsibilities include,

● Researched and designed wearable and smart home kits to be utilized by people with cognitive differences

● Designed, Developed and Beta tested Mobile App, Wearable and Smart home devices

● Created Brand Strategy for CLO.

● Created Digital Content strategy for product websites, as well as User Experience for product websites. SKILLS

Director level team

leadership (5 years)

Product & UX Design (11

years)

Product Owner (5 years)

Figma (2 years), UX Design

(11 years), Adobe

Photoshop (14 years),

Adobe XD (5), Art

Direction (7) Sketch (7

years), Adobe Illustrator (9

years), HTML (2 years),

CSS (2 years), InVision (7

years), Brand Identity (12)

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MeghanArthur.com

Sera.App

TheADVO.com

in-bio.io/megharthur

MagicLinks.com

Catalyte.io

Sprint.com

Meghan Arthur

Product, Design, UX & Growth Strategy

Sprint, Kansas City, Consultant — UX Visual Designer May 2016 - November 2016

● Created wireframes, mockups and lightweight prototypes for Sprint Zone native mobile app on Android and iOS.

● Worked with branding and marketing teams as well as with developers to create products.

● Worked across other brand apps such as: Prepaid, Boost, Virgin Mobile, etc. Interacts with the Scrum/Agile environment and there will be daily stand-ups.

Hallmark, Kansas City, Contract — UX & Production Designer January 2016 - May 2016

User Experience and Production Designer for Print-on-demand digital shop Home.Gillhamstudios.com.

● Created User Experience and develops Gilliam Studios Home Brand within and independent from Hallmark.

● Integrated creative elements such as editorial, illustration, photography, processes, writing, typography and hand-lettering in ways that meet consumer needs. Modified these elements via Illustrator or repaint, 3D render, design with typography.

● Created handmade designs for textiles, rugs and other home goods using the Adobe Suite.

● Coordinated with the web team on deliverables and UX/UI Design, User Experience of website. Aligned Brand Identity via website design, user experience and product design Using Strong Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign skills. Littler Mendleson, Kansas City — UX Designer

July 2015 - January 2016

An international labor and employment law firm, Littler manages and connects firms from Littler & Littler Global offices worldwide. Knowledge Management Innovations finds and automates the firm's knowledge base via intranet and extranet solutions like HighQ Collaborate & Publisher, Drupal sites, and Littler Apps.

● Designed wireframes & graphics.

● Created and demod client-facing sites for various legal products in the Littler portfolio. Coordinated with Marketing & Graphics to optimize the Littler and Littler Global Brands.

● Ensured features and functionality of all portfolio products and is responsible for maintaining and increasing the user base across the portfolio of products.

University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning, Lawrence, KS— UX Designer & Associate Researcher July 2013 - July 2015

The Center for Research on Learning is on the cutting edge of research-based development for Education and EdTech strategies, tools and technologies & digital products.

● Led a team of developers & academics to develop digital products including content development, interface design, & interaction and human-centered design.

● Designed UX wireframes, uses HTML & CSS within University CMS.

● Conducted research including focus groups, interviews, data collection and database management.

● Documented the functional and technical design of the system.

● Helped test the project and create system documentation and user manuals. Owner & Head of Design at TempleBurdock.com

July 2010-July 2013

Boutique style gold jewelry designed & metal smithed by Meghan Arthur. All media, marketing, web design by owner Meghan Arthur. Owner-Director of OmSprout Creative Play Center

July 2011-July 2012

Waldorf Inspired Creative Play center for Children. All marketing & web design by Meghan Arthur Oxfam Australia, Melbourne Australia — Marketing Associate July 2009-December 2010

National Media & Marketing for Oxfam Australia’s domestic team. Oxfam Australia is a non-profit focused on creating community based aid, climate disaster assistance, community improvement, gender equality, first people’s justice and more.

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