Seven years at AnyRoad, growing the design surface area from a single event-management product into a multi-product platform powering branded experiences for global customers. Joined as a Senior Product Designer in 2019. Now Director of Design, leading the work across every surface AnyRoad ships: operations, guest experience, analytics, field activations, and premium loyalty.
When I joined AnyRoad in 2019 as a Senior Product Designer, the company was a single-product event tool helping a small set of customers run tours and tastings. The thesis was already there: brand experiences create loyal customers, and the data they produce can prove it. But the platform itself was one product, one workflow, one way of working.
Over the next seven years, I led design as that thesis grew into an entire platform. Five distinct product surfaces. Hundreds of customers across 90+ countries. Industries from spirits and brewing to CPG and retail. Brands from Diageo and Anheuser-Busch to Ben & Jerry's, Sierra Nevada, and Just Egg. The same idea: turning experiential marketing from gut feel to measurable program. The surface area to design against grew much larger.
This case is the platform-level view. It walks every product I've shaped: the operational backbone, the guest-facing booking flow, the analytics layer, the field-activation tools, and the premium loyalty programs. Each spotlight is a page in the same book.
"A great enterprise platform answers the operator's job, not the analyst's curiosity."
AnyRoad is sold as three products and an outer ring of solutions. Each one answers a different question in the lifecycle of a branded experience, and together they compose into a single operating system. Every spotlight below is a surface I've shaped.
The operational backbone: scheduling, capacity planning, staff tools, walk-up bookings, and revenue tracking for thousands of experiences a year.
Read spotlight →The guest-facing layer: branded booking flows, two-way messaging, and the first-party data capture that powers everything else downstream.
Read spotlight →The data product layer. Five composable surfaces (Question Builder, Explorer, Pinpoint AI, Insights, Industry Benchmarks) that turn raw guest data into operational understanding.
Read deep dive →The field-marketing product: mobile registration, QR scanning, and post-event follow-up for activations, festivals, and pop-ups.
Read spotlight →The premium membership division: turn-key membership programs and bottle subscriptions for spirits and CPG brands.
Read spotlight →Experience Manager is the surface AnyRoad's operators live in every day. Brand-home staff, distillery managers, retail event leads. They use it to schedule, staff, sell tickets, run the day, and prove the value of a season afterward.
Before this product matured, brand-home teams stitched together booking widgets, spreadsheets, manual headcount, and disconnected POS. The redesign pulled those operations into a single workspace: a calendar that shows the whole season at a glance, capacity warnings that fire before they bite, walk-up booking that takes seconds, and a payment layer that doesn't require IT.
The guest experience starts before they arrive and continues long after they leave. Guest Experience is the surface that wraps that whole arc: the booking flow they see on the brand's site, the confirmation and reminder emails that go out, the messaging thread when they have a question, and the survey that lands in their inbox the next morning.
The design problem here is twofold. The flow has to feel like the brand, not like AnyRoad. And it has to capture the right first-party data without slowing the guest down. The booking flow is fully white-label and configurable. The data capture is calibrated to ask the right questions at the right moment, with opt-ins compliant by default.
Atlas Insights is the analytics surface AnyRoad's customers use to turn raw guest data into operational understanding. Five composable surfaces that close the loop from collecting feedback to acting on it: Question Builder, Explorer, Pinpoint AI, Insights, and Industry Benchmarks.
This is the most-detailed surface I've shipped at AnyRoad, and the one with public third-party validation. Diageo's Johnnie Walker Princes Street uses Explorer, Pinpoint, and Industry Benchmarks to prove a 16-point post-visit NPS lift on their flagship whisky tour. The deep dive on each surface lives on its own page.
"With AnyRoad, we are able to measure NPS, Brand Conversion, and more, providing us with solid data that shows the positive impact the JWPS experience is having on our guests. We can then follow up with them to create a lifelong relationship with our brand."
Brand-home tools are designed for a fixed venue. AnyRoad Live is designed for everywhere else. Festivals, retail pop-ups, sponsorship activations, sampling tours, mobile experiences. Anywhere a brand sets up for a day, a weekend, or a season, and tries to capture data from a crowd that didn't come to be marketed to.
The design problem is speed. A guest at a festival booth has fifteen seconds before they walk away. The Live registration flow has to ask the right thing, capture an opt-in, deliver a follow-up survey hours later, and make the brand's field team look like they ran a clean operation. Mobile-first throughout. QR-driven. Offline-tolerant when the venue's wifi gives up.
Lifetime Loyalty is AnyRoad's premium membership division. Where the rest of the platform turns one visit into measurable data, Lifetime Loyalty turns measurable data into recurring revenue. Membership programs, bottle subscriptions, member-only experiences, partner-driven launches.
This branch grew big enough to warrant its own case studies. The parent ecosystem case walks the strategy, the system, and the operating model across 20+ programs. The LL12 x LALIGA case walks a single flagship partnership in detail. Both are linked below.
Across seven years and five products, the platform-design decision underneath everything was that the surfaces had to compose, not just coexist. A booking captured in Guest Experience populates the dashboard in Experience Manager and the segment view in Explorer. A topic surfaced in Pinpoint appears inside Insights. A guest from a Live activation lands in the same customer record an LTL membership program will eventually pull from.
That meant we couldn't design surfaces as separate features. They had to be designed against a shared mental model: the same customer, the same segment, the same experience taxonomy. And against a shared interaction grammar so an operator who learned one surface could read all of them.
The platform's surface area grew from one product to five. The design org grew with it. Becoming Director of Design in 2023 changed the unit of work from individual screens to the people, systems, and rituals that make screens get made.
From 2019 to 2023 I shipped the work myself, learning the platform, the customers, and the operating model from inside. From 2023 forward I've focused on building the design organization that ships it. Hiring, mentoring, design system stewardship, design culture, and the harder-to-see work of making sure the right decisions get made by the right people.
Below are the four pillars I lead the team against. Each one is a function of the platform getting bigger without the craft getting thinner.
The bar I hire against is straightforward: can this designer hold a high standard for craft, make decisions when the answer isn't obvious, and care about the people they work with. Resumes don't tell me that. Portfolio walkthroughs and a real conversation do.
The work that compounds isn't a set of files I touched. It's the team's ability to make the same call I would, without me. Mentorship inside my team is mostly about why a decision was made, what was considered and rejected, and how to argue for the better answer.
As the platform grew from one product to five, the design system had to absorb new pattern needs (data-dense tables, mobile field tools, member-facing branded surfaces) without splintering into incompatible regional dialects. The pattern work is invisible when it succeeds.
The teams I want to be on are honest about the work and generous about the people. I lead critique that pushes hard on the design and stays soft on the designer. Care, craft, and clarity, in that order.
— Platform-level outcomes per AnyRoad public reporting · Customer-specific outcomes in individual case studies
The seams I'm proudest of (the way a Pinpoint topic appears inside an Insights paragraph, the way a Live activation lands in the same customer record an LTL membership pulls from) couldn't have been designed without years of internal context. Knowing the customer, the operating model, the engineering constraints, the past decisions and the reasons they were made. Tenure is rarely fashionable in design careers, but it's where the most consequential work tends to live.
For five years the question was "what's the right thing to ship?" and I answered it myself. The last two years the question has been the same, but the answer has to come from the team. The shift wasn't from doing to managing. It was from being one decision-maker to building the conditions where many designers can make consistently good decisions in parallel.
Across five products and five years of platform expansion, the question I kept returning to was the same: what does a brand-home director actually do on a Monday morning? Designing against that question pulled the team out of feature-by-feature thinking and into a workflow we could measure end to end. It's also what kept the platform feeling like a platform, not a portfolio of products.