I N W O R K
Marielle brings over six years of expertise in B2B-B2C marketing and commerce SaaS spaces and verticals. She drove impact across six core product areas at Mailchimp and Intuit; from Email, Websites and Forms to Pricing and Channels, leading with pragmatic empathy.
Her experience crafting 0-1 products and features, redesigns, platform expansion and enhancements primarily span the avenues of activation and conversion to nourish long-term adoption and retention. She combines her deep understanding of the marketing funnel and consumer life cycle with self-driven research, data synthesis for design, and design craft while augmenting with AI to efficiently fuel high-quality exploration, decision-making and execution toward elegant and scalable solutions.
She's excited by ambiguity and balances autonomy with effective, healthy collaboration, leveraging her peers' expertise to refine her own design thinking, driving early impact guided by a larger vision.
B R E A D T H
T O P
S K I L L S
Systems Thinking
Visual Design
Research
Design Strategy
Data Synthesis
Info. Architecture
T O O L S
Figma
Gemini
Claude
Notion
Stitch
Cursor
Growth
Curiosity
Delight
Integrity
Empathy
Understand
THE PROBLEM, USER, PRODUCT MARKET, AND BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
Connect
WITH USER DATA, SUCCESS METRICS, PARTNERS AND STAKEHOLDERS
Consider
USER IMPACT, THE PRODUCT ECOSYSTEM AND LARGER VISION
Thoughtful Crafting
OF MULTIPLE SCALABLE, IMPACTFUL AND ITERATIVE PATHS
Nimble Execution
OF ELEGANT SOLUTIONS WITH CONFIDENT ADAPTABILITY
Marielle is an integral part of the design team. She is considered a strong design peer and others seek out her feedback. She is a strong visual designer, a great presenter, responds well to feedback, independent, and offers unique perspectives. Marielle builds strong, effective team dynamics and cares deeply about driving user value.
Jen Ellis
Senior Product Design Manager
Marielle is a strong, trustworthy design partner. She's grounded in the why and has the ability to turn a messy, high-friction workflow into a clean journey that can ship. She can form direction and strategy out of ambiguity and breaks work down in a way that's mindful of stakeholders, users and the business.
Richie Krauss
Staff Product Manager
Design-wise, she's great. She produces quality work, and a lot of it. She's both receptive of and responsive to critical feedback, often presenting revisions by the next day. She works well with the rest of the team. She also started a lot of standard meetings; the weekly cross-functional sync where the engineers, designers, QA analysts, and content writers can get together and jam, ask questions, give updates, and offer encouragement to one another. Marielle was the owner and facilitator of these meetings. The squad was fortunate to have a very healthy team dynamic, and a lot of that was due to Marielle's contributions to the team.
Makario Lewis
Principal Software Engineer
I N L I F E
A non-linear, enriching journey from healthcare to journalism led to interaction design, where I’ve had the joy of harmonizing my passion for people, their stories, goals and shaping UX for growth. I find tangible impact both fun and deeply fulfilling.
Pursuing growth and creative expansion drive how I move through life inside and outside of design. From life in the Philippines, to Canada, then independently in the US; pivoting, adapting, and optimizing fruitfully became second nature.
These days, you’ll spot me around New York, Toronto or San Francisco at parks, by water, browsing stationery shops or checking out listening lounges. Galleries, cafés, live music, dogs, film, manga, markets, creative journaling, pottery, recipes, Asian cuisine, skateboarding, volleyball and beaches all bring me a ton of joy.
I’m ambiverted, grounded in where I come from and in fostering dynamics where good work thrives. Sound like your jam? Let's work together.