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https://www.joshhiggins.com/
https://www.joshhiggins.com/
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I’m Kyle Power, a seasoned design leader with over 25 years of experience in shaping innovative user experiences. I’ve had the pleasure of designing and shipping world-class products for Amazon, Microsoft, multi-million dollar startups, and a variety of small to medium-sized businesses. My passion lies in solving complex design challenges, delivering customer-centric solutions, and developing strategies that ensure exceptional design quality at scale. I focus on driving visionary product roadmaps that align with long-term business strategies.
In my leadership role, I emphasize creating an inclusive environment that fosters collaboration, empowers teams to take ownership, and promotes continuous learning and curiosity. My approach is rooted in candid communication, building trust, and ensuring visibility throughout the design process. I’m dedicated to fostering innovation, improving user experiences, and supporting business goals through strategic design leadership.
I excel in UX design, user-centered design, design thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and agile methodologies. My expertise spans developing comprehensive design systems, conducting in-depth user research, and applying visual design principles to enhance user experiences. I’m adept at all stages of product development, from prototyping and wireframing to user testing and iteration.
I believe ... products reflect the individuals behind them. Invisioning a successful product can be an idea in the night or it can require a deep dive into the research and understanding.
While we can take away learnings and future knowledge, behavior I would argue that if an idea doesn't see the light of day its not really innovation ... exploration perhaps.
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I’m Kyle Power, a seasoned design leader with over 25 years of experience in shaping innovative user experiences. I’ve had the pleasure of designing and shipping world-class products for Amazon, Microsoft, multi-million dollar startups, and a variety of small to medium-sized businesses. My passion lies in solving complex design challenges, delivering customer-centric solutions, and developing strategies that ensure exceptional design quality at scale. I focus on driving visionary product roadmaps that align with long-term business strategies.
In my leadership role, I emphasize creating an inclusive environment that fosters collaboration, empowers teams to take ownership, and promotes continuous learning and curiosity. My approach is rooted in candid communication, building trust, and ensuring visibility throughout the design process. I’m dedicated to fostering innovation, improving user experiences, and supporting business goals through strategic design leadership.
I excel in UX design, user-centered design, design thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and agile methodologies. My expertise spans developing comprehensive design systems, conducting in-depth user research, and applying visual design principles to enhance user experiences. I’m adept at all stages of product development, from prototyping and wireframing to user testing and iteration.
I believe ... products reflect the individuals behind them. Invisioning a successful product can be an idea in the night or it can require a deep dive into the research and understanding.
While we can take away learnings and future knowledge, behavior I would argue that if an idea doesn't see the light of day its not really innovation ... exploration perhaps.
Principles (grab from linked in)
1. Healthy
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Josh is a creative leader and multi-channel storyteller with 20+ years of global experience building brands and teams.
Josh is currently VP, Executive Creative Director at Atlassian leading a multi-disciplined team of Creative, Brand, Design, Ops and Production teams who work across all customer touch points.
Josh is currently VP, Executive Creative Director at Atlassian leading a multi-disciplined team of Creative, Brand, Design, Ops and Production teams who work across all customer touch points.
Prior to joining Atlassian, Josh was Global Chief Creative Officer for Reality Labs at Meta, where he built an organization of 200+ creatives that included designers, creative directors, brand & experience designers, creative technologists, producers, program managers, and business affairs people. Josh and his team led the go-to-market charge and marketing for Meta’s Quest, Ray Ban/Meta Smart glasses, and Portal products guiding every facet of naming, branding, packaging, experiential, retail, performance marketing, ad campaign development, implementation, and evaluation.
Before Josh took the helm at Meta’s Reality Labs, he helped co-build “The Factory” team. A wildly different type of in-house agency. A place that nurtured creativity on a scale never before seen. The Factory and Josh were tasked with some transformational initiatives, including the redesign of Facebook’s logo, brand, and product identities. the globally patented personalized platform video program, Facebook brand campaigns, websites, print collateral, product marketing creative for all verticals of Facebook, and online / offline creative for Facebook's annual F8 conferences. Oh, and BTW while all this was going on, Josh helmed the Analog Research Lab and the Facebook Artist in Residence program.
Josh’s arrival at Meta came on the heels of a successful re-election campaign for the 44th President of the United States. In 2011 he joined Obama’s team as Design Director. Under his guidance, team Obama rewrote the rules of campaign branding, marketing and outreach. He and the team played a pivotal role in melding digital and analog creative with analytics that resulted in phenomenal results and hug from Obama himself when it was all said and done.
The term “renaissance man” is tired, but accurate in this case. Before Josh ever moved a pixel or chose a typeface, he was a bass player. As a Fender Instruments endorsed artist he spent over a decade recording and performing with his band, fluf. A band that was featured on the first five “Vans Warped Tours”. fluf also shared the stage on tours with Fugazi, Jawbreaker, Rancid, Blink 182 and Sublime among others. After 7 albums for both Cargo and MCA Universal Records, Josh went back to school, earned his design credentials and the rest is a history that’s still being written.
Even with all his professional success and acclaim, Josh has never lost sense of who he is, or where he came from. He has and continues to make giving back a priority in his life. He served on the Tony Hawk Foundation Advisory Board and dedicates a percentage of his time to various social causes, including founding and organizing The Hurricane, So-Cal Fire, and Haiti Poster Projects in addition to lecture series with photographers, designers, and filmmakers with proceeds donated to charitable organizations and causes. Josh is also an in-demand speaker who has inspired audiences here and abroad for over a decade.
Humility is at the core of who Josh is, so even though he has picked up several over his career, he’d be the last person on earth to talk about awards.
- Penned by his good friend Robert
Client: Amazon
6+ Months Contract with extensions
Hybrid Work at Bellevue, WA 98004 (3 days on office)
Key Projects- Central design operations.
Survey metrics- building mechanisms and processes for designers and researchers.
Making sure org has tools and resources to be successful.
Event planning for upcoming Summit.
• Facilitate team scrum ceremonies (stand-up, sprint planning, retros, etc)
• Evolve, document and model team mechanisms
• Compose design program PRFAQ’s, business review docs, and work-back plans
• Advocate for the happiness and productivity of your designers
• Forge relationships with product and engineering leaders to maximize design contributions
• Protect vision and align design team goals
• Captain team communications and oversee releases
• Working with designers or developers
Job Qualifications:
- Software development experience (Agile) * Methodology
- Navigation for complex organizations * Collaboration (Review model, Tablet Schedule
- Operations experience * List of Projects
- Product management experience * Certification in Product Managment Kellogg
- JIRA, Asana, Writing skills *Set up JIRA at Amazon, Tools
- Familiarity with UX Design
- Research experience would be helpful * Research Methodologies (MSN research reported to me)
MUST Haves:
Asana/JIRA knowledge * Tools
Quip/Google Sheets/ Tech savy
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Amazon UX Role
Digital Devices Group
The following diagram was created for the Digital Products Group - Kindle Fire Tablets UX PM team.
- Operations experience * List of Projects
- Product management experience * Certification in Product Managment Kellogg
6+ Months Contract with extensions
Hybrid Work at Bellevue, WA 98004 (3 days on office)
Key Projects- Central design operations.
Survey metrics- building mechanisms and processes for designers and researchers.
Making sure org has tools and resources to be successful.
Event planning for upcoming Summit.
• Facilitate team scrum ceremonies (stand-up, sprint planning, retros, etc)
• Evolve, document and model team mechanisms
• Compose design program PRFAQ’s, business review docs, and work-back plans
• Advocate for the happiness and productivity of your designers
• Forge relationships with product and engineering leaders to maximize design contributions
• Protect vision and align design team goals
• Captain team communications and oversee releases
• Working with designers or developers
Job Qualifications:
- Software development experience (Agile) * Methodology
- Navigation for complex organizations * Collaboration (Review model, Tablet Schedule
- Operations experience * List of Projects
- Product management experience * Certification in Product Managment Kellogg
- JIRA, Asana, Writing skills *Set up JIRA at Amazon, Tools
- Familiarity with UX Design
- Research experience would be helpful * Research Methodologies (MSN research reported to me)
MUST Haves:
Asana/JIRA knowledge * Tools
Quip/Google Sheets/ Tech savy
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Amazon UX Role
Digital Devices Group
The following diagram was created for the Digital Products Group - Kindle Fire Tablets UX PM team.
- Operations experience * List of Projects
- Product management experience * Certification in Product Managment Kellogg
Callouts
Event Management
• Event planning for upcoming Summit.
First gig out of college was for an events company. I was a stakeholder/organizer for large cross org UX Summits at Microsoft and Google.
UX Stewardship - Culture, Design Thinking, Design Principles
• Advocate for the happiness and productivity of your designers
• Forge relationships with product and engineering leaders to maximize design contributions
• Protect vision and align design team goals * Design Thinking
• Captain team communications and oversee releases * Tracking, Reporting, Scorecards
• Working with designers or developers * Methodology - Lululemon Diagram
Design-Developer Collaboration - Redesigning Design Systems
• Advocate for the happiness and productivity of your designers
• Forge relationships with product and engineering leaders to maximize design contributions
• Protect vision and align design team goals * Design Thinking
• Captain team communications and oversee releases * Tracking, Reporting, Scorecards
• Working with designers or developers * Methodology - Lululemon Diagram
Design-Developer Collaboration - Redesigning Design Systems
- Familiarity with UX Design
- Research experience would be helpful * Research Methodologies (MSN research reported to me)
Culture
• Facilitate team scrum ceremonies (stand-up, sprint planning, retros, etc)
- Software development experience (Agile)
I'm a certified Scrum Master
Design Thinking
Insert certification
- Research experience would be helpful * Research Methodologies (MSN research reported to me)
Culture
• Facilitate team scrum ceremonies (stand-up, sprint planning, retros, etc)
- Software development experience (Agile)
I'm a certified Scrum Master
Design Thinking
Insert certification
Design Principles
Insert certification
Insert certification
Development Framework - Agile / Waterfall
• Facilitate team scrum ceremonies (stand-up, sprint planning, retros, etc)
- Software development experience (Agile)
I'm a certified Scrum Master
• Facilitate team scrum ceremonies (stand-up, sprint planning, retros, etc)
- Software development experience (Agile)
I'm a certified Scrum Master
Workflow - Milestones, Change Management
• Evolve, document and model team mechanisms
• Evolve, document and model team mechanisms
Description text
Business Review / Schedules - workback plans
• Compose design program PRFAQ’s, business review docs, and work-back plans
- Navigation for complex organizations
- Navigation for complex organizations
Tools - JIRA, ASANA, FIGMA etc
• Making sure org has tools and resources to be successful.
MUST Haves: Asana/JIRA knowledge
Quip/Google Sheets/ Tech savy
- JIRA, Asana, Writing skills *Set up JIRA at Amazon, Tools
https://quip.com/
Research experience would be helpful
• Making sure org has tools and resources to be successful.
MUST Haves: Asana/JIRA knowledge
Quip/Google Sheets/ Tech savy
- JIRA, Asana, Writing skills *Set up JIRA at Amazon, Tools
https://quip.com/
Research experience would be helpful
Digital Devices Group
Back Story
New Leadership coming over from Microsoft to focus on the phone (Jae Park - 2025 at Ford)
FireTV - Burley (now at Reddit)
Related: Amazon Phone Review
Back Story
New Leadership coming over from Microsoft to focus on the phone (Jae Park - 2025 at Ford)
FireTV - Burley (now at Reddit)
Related: Amazon Phone Review
Overview
After a couple weeks of observations and conversations up and down the studio as well with our Internal functional partners in Product, Engineering and Release Management as well as Partner UX Leadership. Those building extended business app or integrated solutions for the tablet.
After a couple weeks of observations and conversations up and down the studio as well with our Internal functional partners in Product, Engineering and Release Management as well as Partner UX Leadership. Those building extended business app or integrated solutions for the tablet. Example: Shopping (Amazon.com), Books, Audio, Goodreads, Photos, Music etc. I also spoke to colleagues who had left the studio and moved to other parts of the company.
Foundational
After a couple weeks of observations and conversations up and down the .
Alignment
After a couple weeks
Governance
After a couple weeks
After a couple weeks of observations and conversations up and down the studio as well with our Internal functional partners in Product, Engineering and Release Management as well as Partner UX Leadership. Those building extended business app or integrated solutions for the tablet.
After a couple weeks of observations and conversations up and down the studio as well with our Internal functional partners in Product, Engineering and Release Management as well as Partner UX Leadership. Those building extended business app or integrated solutions for the tablet. Example: Shopping (Amazon.com), Books, Audio, Goodreads, Photos, Music etc. I also spoke to colleagues who had left the studio and moved to other parts of the company.
Foundational
After a couple weeks of observations and conversations up and down the .
Alignment
After a couple weeks
Governance
After a couple weeks
Foundational
2. Product Cycle and Schedule
Insert information around schedules
>> Insert spreadsheet
Fun Fact: XX%
Ask me about: My thoughts on Scrum, Spri
Insert information around schedules
>> Insert spreadsheet
Fun Fact: XX%
Ask me about: My thoughts on Scrum, Spri
3. Roles and Responsibilities Definition (UX Point, ORAP)
Review cycles in previous Amazon and over 30 at Microsoft I had the understanding at a manager you need to set clear expectations and responsibilities for your team. In addition, Having worked on the UX Career stage profiles while Office Design Team.
Note: This Framework Diagram was reviewed and influenced UX Operation orgs at Microsoft, Google, UI Path.
Related: Roles and Responsibilities - UX Point Person
DELIVER QUALITY DESIGN SOULTIONS ON TIME
Review cycles in previous Amazon and over 30 at Microsoft I had the understanding at a manager you need to set clear expectations and responsibilities for your team. In addition, Having worked on the UX Career stage profiles while Office Design Team.
Note: This Framework Diagram was reviewed and influenced UX Operation orgs at Microsoft, Google, UI Path.
Related: Roles and Responsibilities - UX Point Person
DELIVER QUALITY DESIGN SOULTIONS ON TIME
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5. Review Models and Cadence
Insert information reviews
On Device Reviews - Related; Carnival Cruise Executive Reviews
UX Partners - Outcomes, Feedback, Visibility into review content (Shopping), Sharing with UX POC which increased their influence in their orgs. Knowledge
Ask me about:
Insert information reviews
On Device Reviews - Related; Carnival Cruise Executive Reviews
UX Partners - Outcomes, Feedback, Visibility into review content (Shopping), Sharing with UX POC which increased their influence in their orgs. Knowledge
Ask me about:
6. Reporting Criteria
Insert information reviews
On Device Reviews - Related; Carnival Cruise Executive Reviews
UX Partners - Outcomes, Feedback, Visibility into review content (Shopping), Sharing with UX POC which increased their influence in their orgs. Knowledge
>> Insert Diagram
Ask me about:
Insert information reviews
On Device Reviews - Related; Carnival Cruise Executive Reviews
UX Partners - Outcomes, Feedback, Visibility into review content (Shopping), Sharing with UX POC which increased their influence in their orgs. Knowledge
>> Insert Diagram
Ask me about:
Alignment
After a couple week
After a couple week