Résumé – P.J. Onori

Instacart

Sr. Design Manager, Design Systems

PayPal

Sr. Design Manager, PayPal UI

Acted as the manager of the PayPal UI team through a redesign of the company's design system. Acted as both manager and IC to land its delivery on schedule.

Pinterest

Design Manager / Product Owner, Gestalt Design System

Transitioned back into people management while continuing to own the vision of strategic direction of Gestalt.

Lead Product Designer / Product Owner, Gestalt Design System

Owned the vision and strategy for the Gestalt design system; leading to signficant increases in adoption and customer sentiment.

Highlights

• 32% increase in designer sentiment of Gestalt compared to 2022.
• 11% increase in total Gestalt component instances in the web codebase compared to 2022.
• 28% increase in higher-order Gestalt component instances in the web codebase compared to 2022.
• 92% increase in Gestalt docs pageviews from 2022 to 2023.

Design Manager / Product Owner, Gestalt Design System

Led the transition of the team to be a fully-staffed, cross-functional design systems practice.

Highlights

• Doubled the team's size from 2020 to 2021 and shifted the team's focus/skillset to be exclusively centered on design systems
• Developed a multi-year vision/roadmap for growing the systems practice at Pinterest
• Led the effort to shift Gestalt from functioning primarily as a UI framework to Pinterest's design system
• Acted as product owner which included responsibilities of defining/tracking OKRs, developing baseline KPIs to define success and developing yearly roadmaps to meet stakeholder needs
• Oversaw growth of the system with substantial gains in adoption as well as NPS scores in nearly every category measured
• Expanded the influence and scope of Gestalt to extend support to mobile platforms starting in 2022

Lead Product Designer, Gestalt Design System

Acted as lead designer in Pinterest's internal design system, design tooling and infrastructure initiatives.

Highlights

• Led the design and supported the implementation of Dark Mode for the company's iOS and Android apps
• Defined and facilitated the implementation of design tokens within the system
• Developed internal tooling through Figma plugins and web apps to operationalize / automate key manual design workflows
• Developed processes within the team to enable measurement of team velocity and provided the ability for the team to accurately forecast team throughput

Disney Streaming Services

Principal Designer

Responsibilities

• Led the design effort for Disney Streaming Services' platform tool suite.
• Initiated and led the creation of Disney Streaming Services' platform design system.
• Led the design of parental controls experience for Disney+.

InVision

Design-Driven Product Manager

Highlights

• Managed the initial launch of InVision LABS/Craft.
• Led InVision’s Inspect and Craft Sync initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Product definition, KPIs, prioritization and roadmap creation.
• Communication/coordination with all business/operational stakeholders.
• Management and involvement in the design effort for Inspect and Craft Sync.
• Definition of business/functional acceptance criteria for engineering tickets.
• Validation research for Inspect and Craft Sync in the form of customer interviews, creation of surveys and quantitative analysis.
• Planning, creation and management of all customer communication through the Inspect and Craft Sync beta programs prior to our hiring of a product marketing manager.
• Occasional coding when resources are thin.

Waybury

Partner & Director of Design Technology

Worked on a range of consulting projects ranging from focused UX to interface design to iconography. Clients include: OpenTable, Twitter, Splunk, Intuit and Mulesoft. In addition, worked with the Waybury team to produce Iconic (https://useiconic.com/) and Relay (https://relay.io). Waybury was acquired by InVision in December 2015.

Independent UX/Technology Consultancy

Assisted clients such as HOT Studio, Splunk and General Electric with problems ranging from pure user experience to technology-related challenges.

Adaptive Path

Design Technologist

Served in several capacities in the experience design process - from prototyping to design strategy to facilitating workshops (and everything in between). Worked for organizations such as the United Nations, Samsung and Adobe.

Independent UX/Technology Consultant

Worked as a design technology consultant to handle projects that demand visual/interactive design along with technical strategy and development.

Recent projects I have been a part of are Patrón Tequila (patrontequila.com), Horizon Dairy (horizondairy.com), Stanlee Gatti's website (stanleegatti.com), internal kiosk applications and Current.com's Viewpoints experience (now offline).

I have done work for companies such as Current TV, Adaptive Path, Hearst Corporation and Mekanism.

Method

Senior Design Technologist

Acted as the senior design technologist, responsible for development of various Actionscript 2 and Actionscript 3 applications.

Projects of interest were The Apartment's Flex-based Wordpress blog and TED.com's video player.

Current TV

Web Designer

Acted as the lead front-end developer for Current TV's second generation website and video player from inception to launch.

Senior Flash Developer, SolutionSet

Web Developer, Kacyra Family Foundation

Education

BFA, Visual Arts, University of San Francisco