Senior UX Designer — Auckland, NZ
I build design systems, AI-augmented workflows, and scalable product infrastructure for SaaS teams. I work at the intersection of craft and engineering — where systems thinking meets real user problems.
Currently leading Pushpay's UX + Engineering design system team — enabling 8 products across NZ & US. A shared resource, not a gate.
Selected work
How Pushpay's design system evolved from fragmented product libraries into a unified ecosystem — and how a board meeting became the catalyst for modernising everything.
4 libraries → 1 · 30+ variants → 1 · 17k variables · 7 products
Building an AI-augmented DS workflow that unlocked work that couldn't be justified before — audits too large to run, documentation never written, debt that kept growing.
88% faster migration · 92% faster docs · 17k variables in one day
Two years in App Studio — designing across StudioC, Events, and Church App while building the cross-product literacy that now drives DS leadership.
4 product teams · 6 features shipped · 2 user types
Sole designer on Resi On Demand — the end-user viewing experience, the Church App integration, and the App Studio admin configuration. One product, no seams.
Resi × Pushpay · Shipped · Live
End-to-end UX for AI-powered giving analytics — from taxonomy and calculated fields up. Teaching an AI what church giving data means before designing how to surface it.
AWS QuickSight · Data taxonomy · Future vision
About
I'm a systems thinker who happens to be a designer. I'm most useful when the problem is structural — when the real work is building the foundation that makes everything else possible, not just designing the surface on top of it.
I take my work seriously. I deliver what I say I will, and if something changes I'll tell you before it becomes a problem. I prefer to understand things properly rather than fake it — if I don't know something, I'll ask. If I disagree, I'll say so.
I stay genuinely curious about my tools — Figma, Claude, AI workflows — not because it's part of the job, but because I find it interesting. That curiosity is how the AI workflows in my DS practice got built. Nobody asked me to figure that out. I just wanted to know if it was possible.
I do my best work with clear ownership, space to explore before presenting, and time to do things properly. I clock out when the day is done. I think that's healthy, and I work better for it.