Stephanie Boyle

About

I am a product design visionary, driven by a passion for creating experiences that delight users and defy market expectations. I am both a pragmatic builder and an idealist, with an unwavering commitment to advocating for the user. I possess a unique ability to translate market and user needs into operational product plans that deliver tangible results. I stand out with a commitment to continuously raising the bar to deliver results that exceed market and user expectations. I am a thoughtful systems thinker who approaches collaboration across all disciplines with curiosity, empathy, flexibility, and optimism. I assemble great teams of product designers, and researchers who are equally driven by a commitment to excellence. I am capable of managing multiple time horizons at once to balance short-term investments with long-term planning, preparing for the next stages of growth and transition. - Collaborates across all disciplines as a thoughtful systems thinker who influences with curiosity, empathy, flexibility, and optimism. - Driven by a show don't tell mentality, successfully communicates value and builds executive champions through tangible, proven, highly effective ideation frameworks and results. - Comfortable using data to drive decision-making, including thoughtful approaches to forming hypotheses using data & analytics. - Able to balance short-term investments and identify gaps to fill today that enable success in years to come while driving execution within product and design teams to prepare for the next stage of growth and transition. - Works regularly and effectively with cross-functional leaders to bring stability in throughput of the product plan alongside with other execs and leaders. - Recruiter in chief of great teams of, product designers, design researchers, & operations teams. User Market Research & Market Intelligence - Product Vision, Strategy, Design & Leadership - Needs Analysis & Synthesis into Actionable Features - Platform Management- Cross-Functional Team Management - crisp, Ambitious, Achievable Goal Setting - Feature Development & Prioritization - Developing Core Design Processes - Human-Centered Design - Voice of the Customer / Customer First - Mentor, Scale, & Inspire Product, Design & Research Teams - Ideation, Prototyping, Experimentation - Design Thinking & Product Discovery - Data-driven Decision-Making - User Stories - User Journeys - Prototyping - Usability - Qualitative Research - Quantitative Research - MVP - Hero Journey - UX, UI, CX

Experience

• Product + Design · TalkTastic08-01-2023

  Responsible for leading product and design initiatives, likely contributing to the development and enhancement of TalkTastic's offerings.

• Product Design Consultant · Project: Rufus Lane01-01-2013

  Providing Product Design services for companies transitioning to growth stage by providing organizational discipline, methods, and helping teams to perform at a steady, manageable, and transparent cadence along with product, operations, engineering, research and leadership to meet ambitious business goals. Creating 0 to 1 products and services with design and engineering teams, making small bets and using novel approaches to achieve maximum results while continuously connecting consumer metrics to design thinking. Ideation and validation through all stages of disruptive product ideas using traditional and novel approaches to forming hypotheses, making small bets, building MVPs, and testing ideas using rapid prototyping, exciting design & engineering teams, executive stakeholders and users alike.

• Co-Founder · Wellnest Co-Practicing Spaces05-01-2018 – 08-01-2020

  Managed an early stage startup spinout called Wellnest Co-Practicing Spaces. Wellnest offered Co-practice locations where practitioners could operate independently but under the same roof, and patients can address all of their wellness needs in one location. Set the vision for the product design and set programmatic milestones to achieve the vision with a cross-functional team. Wellnest Spaces provided office space and practice management services in a subscription model to providers. Closed due to COVID-19.

• VP, Product Design & Product Line Innovation – TV & Media Products + Data · Ericsson01-01-2017 – 03-01-2018

  Acted as the chief guardian of the user journey across complex linear, on-demand, streaming and broadcast products on multiple form factors and platforms including TV, mobile, tablet, and in-vehicle entertainment systems, across all relevant OS models and OEM platforms. Led global teams of product designers, UX researchers, innovation engineers, product designers, and AL/ML developers to transform services, reducing technical debt and building APIs for strategic partnerships, expanding the ecosystem. Transformed international market and consumer insights into enterprise-level innovation. Modernized media delivery pipeline, leveraging cloud technology to enable seamless authentication, efficient data aggregation, and scalable market responses.

• Head of AT&T Foundry (Innovation Center) - Palo Alto · Ericsson02-01-2014 – 01-01-2017

  Applied design thinking to develop use cases for 5G technology, innovative products and services from ideation to commercialization, building zero to 1 products. Collaborated with Silicon Valley-based accelerators and innovation outposts to explore new use cases for next-generation networks. This includes working with Fox Innovation Lab, Autonomous Driving, Software defined networking, deep learning models, edge computing for XR, VR and AR for both consumers and industries. Evaluated startups in the tech ecosystem for potential strategic partnership with AT&T and Ericsson, testing and scaling these new solutions across many channels. Delivered large-scale cultural change, bringing a bias toward action and a high risk tolerance expressed through frequent experimentation including connected cars, connected autonomous drones, and connected city projects. Enabled future innovation by building predictive analytics dashboards to allow simplification of queries into big data sets, abstracting technical complexity for internal decision making.

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin
• University of the Incarnate WordHigh School
• Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessExecutive Education, Customer-Focused Innovation + d.school bootcamp

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