What it's like to work with me, from the people who have.
lindsey simmons
Founder of Linda in HR
Julie is my ideal hiring partner. She has a deep understanding of the roles, the business, and the team's needs, and she brings that knowledge to building clear career pathing and role leveling. This foundation directly informed our job descriptions and interview plans. When I began partnering with her on product design hiring nine months ago, we ran a retro on the process to date and refined the evaluation to surface priority skill sets earlier in the interview process. We also brought the team into calibration conversations that gave us a deeper read on day-to-day needs, which let us further refine the job description and interview process. That work led to a pool of exceptionally qualified candidates and got buy-in from the business to open additional roles. She's an excellent fly fishing and thought partner who delivers clear, actionable feedback that sharpens the hiring process with every interview. If you're building a product design team, I can't think of a more knowledgeable or thoughtful partner to help you lay the foundation.
Rob Woolen
CTO / Co-founder at Sigma Computing
Julie was Sigma’s founding design leader, joining at inception and helping scale the company from zero to $50M in annual recurring revenue. She built the design function from the ground up—establishing the team, defining the process, and ensuring design scaled in step with the business. Julie’s leadership transformed design into a competitive advantage: she aligned product vision with user needs, created clear standards that empowered cross‑functional teams to move fast, and embedded design into the company’s growth engine. The result was a design culture and practice that produced products customers love while directly fueling Sigma’s rapid expansion.
Bill Palombi
VP of Product at Prefect.io
As a product leader without a strong design background, I had a couple of false starts in establishing the design function at our growth stage startup. Julie’s coaching was instrumental in re-establishing our design organization. She helped me define the core competencies we needed, establish a robust hiring process, and identify key signals of talent in portfolios and interviews. Her guidance was crucial in setting me and my initial design hires up for success as we drove our product’s next phase of growth.
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