👋 Oh hey, I’m Sharon.

Writing in the third person feels weird, so we won’t be doing that. TL;DR:

I’m a data-driven product and design leader based in Austin, currently building the app-free digital connection between US manufacturers and their frontline workers.

Sound interesting?

For the last decade, I’ve been on the 0-1 journey.

A few times.

Whether it’s enterprise data management or artisanal sprinkles, my focus is always research-backed product strategy and *just enough* design to answer the next big question.

VP Product & Design, TeamSense

2023 on

Founder, Curious Design

2022 on

VP, Product Design & User Research, data.world

2016–2022

2017–2019

Design Director, Wikibuy

2013–2016

How I like to work

Like a quick-start guide for how to best collaborate with me

  • These days, I’m immersed in manufacturing and connecting with hourly workers with TeamSense. You’d never believe the kinds of factories I’m lucky enough to visit.

    At data.world, I helped enterprise users discover what data was available, fresh, and trustworthy 10x faster. We were named a Gartner MQ-leading data catalog for that.

  • Just for kicks, let’s say its 2014 and you want to create a whole new online buying experience that simplifies price shopping into one-click buying. That’s exactly what we did at Wikibuy.

    Wikibuy is now offered as Capital One Shopping.

  • This comes in handy when I’m the founding designer or an early project contributor.

    Recently, I refreshed the TeamSense brand, messaging, website, and app. In 2022, I led all things product and design for Otis Health and multiple other company concepts spun out from the Pioneer Square Labs startup incubator.

A few facts

100% up to you if they’re “fun”

  • For two years, I ran Hardcore Sprinkles in the spare hours I wasn’t leading product design for a Series A startup (😅). I dreamed up the recipes, manufactured product, operated as a wholesale supplier to local bakeries, designed packaging, and was a one-woman e-commerce shop. It was exhausting and I loved (almost) every second.

  • 8,000 miles, 18 national parks and monuments, 3 time zones, and 45 days of continuous travel in a sub-compact hatchback. Talk about it being all about the journey.

    It all started with designing and building the rig without any 3D design experience. One day I’ll finish designing the book with my reviews of all the novelty museums along the way.

  • One day in 2022 I woke up and realized my entire library was either digital, audio, borrowed from the library, or some combination of those things – and my bookshelves were a vestige of my taste from 15+ years ago.

    I started Matchbox Library to get back into gouache painting, feed my love of making tiny things, and have an excuse to catalog my favorite reads somewhere other than Goodreads.

  • Most recently, that’s Matchbox Library.

    Before that, it was a whiskey advent calendar, annual holiday projects including making my own bitters, and my endless quest for the perfect recipe organizational system.

    Honorable mention: that one time I accidentally turned my sprinkle-making hobby into a real CPG business. (Oops.)

I’m a bit of an introvert (INFJ, hbu?), but I love connecting one-on-one and mentoring up-and-coming designers.

PS: We don’t only have to talk shop. Chat me up about what you’re reading, cooking, making – or how Austin sure ain’t what it used to be (and probably never was). Talk soon?