Head of Product Design · Hilton Grand Vacations
I build design organizations that scale. Through systems, teams, and operating models, I drive measurable efficiency and cross-functional cohesion.
Previously Senior UX Manager, Headless UI and Design Systems at Gap Inc., and UX Manager, Design Ops at The Home Depot. Work spans multi-brand design systems, Design Operations, and product experiences that affect revenue, speed to market, and associate time.
Impact
$1.3M
First-year savings from simplifying Home Depot freight receiving on mobile — a 30-screen workflow reduced to 3.
35% / 15%
Increase in customer sales tickets and speed to market after standing up a responsive design system for Home Depot’s customer-facing properties.
13 → 300
Foundational processes for Enterprise UX as the org scaled, including onboarding, critique, and reusable prototype libraries. Grew my own team 400%, from 2 to 8.
Selected work
Gap Inc. — Headless UI
Multi-brand system across Gap, Banana Republic, Athleta, and Old Navy. Average 15% lift in experience metrics.
Home Depot — Stencil
Customer-facing design system. 35% sales-ticket lift, 15% faster design and development.
What Colleagues Say
One particular workflow required users to step through 30+ screens on a mobile device. Denise’s design executed that same workflow in 3 screens. Our SVP of Engineering Operations repeatedly used that example to highlight user-centered software development.
Rachel Modugno, Software Engineering Sr. Manager, The Home Depot