Maria Piquet
Design Director at frog
- Role
- Design Director at frog
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Maria Piquet
Design Director with 12+ years of experience leading product design and product management across consumer and enterprise digital platforms. Skilled at navigating ambiguity, framing complex problem spaces, and applying human‑centered design methodologies to arrive at clear, actionable product direction. Known for hands-on execution, building cross-discipline partnerships, guiding teams through discovery and definition, and translating insight into scalable product solutions aligned with long‑term strategy. Comfortable operating in environments where outcomes evolve over time and success is defined by clarity, alignment, and quality of decision‑making as much as metrics.
Experience
Design Director
Aug 2022 — Present · New York, NY, US
Lead product design and experience strategy for complex digital platforms, operating as an embedded partner to client product and engineering leadership over multi phase engagements• Define long term experience vision and design principles to guide roadmaps, prioritization, and iterative delivery—not just launch milestones • Engage in hands-on design and user research execution • Direct and mentor senior designers across multiple teams, strengthening craft quality, decision making, and design leadership capabilities • Establish scalable design frameworks and system level thinking to ensure consistency across products, features, and teams • Influence executive stakeholders through clear articulation of user insights, tradeoffs, and strategic rationale
Education
General Assembly
User Experience Design
2017
University of Florida
B.S., Journalism
2007 — 2011
Skills
- Copy Editing
- Product Development
- Indesign
- Social Media
- Quality Assurance
- Css
- Ebooks
- Jira
- Project Management
- Retail
- Redmine
- Book Publishing
- Publishing
- User Experience
- Adobe Bridge
- Sketch
- Product Management
- Dreamweaver
- Illustrator
- Html
- Microsoft Office
- Lms
- Photoshop
- Copywriting
- Editing
- Blogging
- Email Marketing
- App Development
- Digital Production
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