Resume

Product design leader for growth, loyalty, rewards, and complex product environments.

A focused view of recent product design leadership, business impact, team scope, and organizational leverage. A full chronological resume can be shared directly.

Positioning

John Lewis

Senior Product Design Manager

Executive Summary

Design leadership that connects customer behavior, business outcomes, and organizational leverage.

Director-caliber design leader focused on translating ambiguous growth opportunities into product strategy teams can execute, customer ecosystems people can understand, and design organizations that scale quality through people.

Senior Product Design Manager operating across casino growth, loyalty, rewards, promotions, operator workflows, research, and platform infrastructure.

Partners across Product, Engineering, Analytics, CRM, Marketing, Operations, Research, and executive stakeholders.

Builds operating rhythms, critique quality, manager leverage, and reusable design models so judgment scales beyond one leader's direct intervention.

Selected Impact

Business outcomes tied to design direction, customer understanding, and platform leverage.

+9% GGR

Rewards Club A/B Test

The four-month U.S. A/B test measured GGR, active-player days, and generosity perception together as part of the Rewards Club readout.

+18% higher NGR

Reward Machine Bonus Draw

Bonus Draw customers recorded higher NGR and eGGR than control, making reward format a concrete variable for the team to compare.

69% fewer CS contacts

Bonus Spins Merch

The recorded merchandising comparison included fewer support contacts and higher bonus-spin use, keeping comprehension and utilization in the same readout.

$500K tax savings / month

Casino Bonus Wallets

The recorded tax savings and reporting scale made foundational wallet work material to the business case.

+363% daily active players

Games Global Bonus Spins

The Pennsylvania launch of Love Island Reel Vibes recorded this daily-active-player result.

0 bugs + same TTM

Canada Parity

The Canada launch recorded zero bugs; equivalent post-launch features matched U.S. time to market and QA time per release was lower.

Experience

Recent leadership scope.

This web resume focuses on the most relevant recent leadership chapter. Earlier work appears in the portfolio archive, and a full chronological history is available in conversation.

FanDuel Casino

Senior Product Design Manager

Lead design across growth-critical casino surfaces and systems, connecting loyalty, promotions, rewards, CRM, operator workflows, research, and platform infrastructure through shared product and delivery decisions.

  • Reframed fragmented rewards, promotions, and loyalty moments around perceived value, progression, and repeat engagement.
  • Strengthened design operations through critique quality, management rhythms, coaching loops, and shared quality standards across a growing casino portfolio.
  • Translated customer, behavioral, and evaluative research into product strategy, roadmap implications, and executive-ready decision narratives.
  • Partnered across product, analytics, marketing, operations, engineering, loyalty, and research to evaluate customer behavior, operational results, and initiative-level business measures.

Leadership Scope

The role scaled through people, standards, and decision forums.

A concise view of the organizational scope behind the case studies: team growth, direct management, career progression, manager development, hiring, and executive-facing decisions.

Core org growth

3 -> 15

Team grew from 3 to 15 across Design, Research, and Content, with a peak of 21.

Direct reports

8

Managed up to 8 direct reports across product design and related disciplines.

Research strategy partners

15

Supported 13 designers and 2 researchers during research-led product strategy work.

Career promotions

6

Supported growth across IC, Senior IC, Lead Designer, and Manager levels.

Leaders developed

4

Developed 2 managers and 2 lead designers.

Hiring board

UXD

Served on interview panels and hiring committees for design, research, and leadership roles.

Executive forums

SVP / VP

Facilitated product, design, research, and decision forums with senior stakeholders.

Capabilities

Where I create leverage.

Growth, loyalty, rewards, and retention strategy

Portfolio framing and cross-surface experience models

Research synthesis that becomes product direction

Design management rhythms, critique quality, and coaching

Executive storytelling, prioritization, and cross-functional alignment

Trust, feedback, recovery, and understandable product behavior

Leadership Conversations

Building product ecosystems, stronger teams, and sharper executive alignment.

Open to Product Design Director opportunities across growth, platform, loyalty, and product ecosystem leadership.

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Based in the U.S. and open to product design leadership opportunities.