Hi there 👋
I'm Adrian Bailon, a Design Operations Program Manager in New York City
Disclaimer: I am NOT the Cheetah Girl. (IYKYK. 💃)
I’m a Certified Scrum Master (CSM®) and Design Program Manager most recently as part of the Design Operations team at Stripe, helping to enable the industry’s best product designers to work intentionally and effortlessly on the most thoughtful and graceful experiences for our customers.I’m sometimes called a Project Manager, sometimes a Producer, but always with the intention of helping product teams be more effective, efficient, and happy ✨ at what they do. In past lives, I’ve had the privilege of working at Slack 💬 and Peloton 🚲, as well as a host of creative and digital agencies where I launched campaigns for brands and organizations ranging from the United Nations, Home Depot, and Ferrero Rocher.
Experience
Stripe
Sr. Design Program Manager
May 2022 — March 2025
Peloton
Design Program Manager
May 2021 — April 2022
Slack
Sr. Project Manager
May 2019 — April 2021
Various agencies
Project Manager / Producer
2010 — 2019
Areas of expertise
Establishing new working models
Enabling collaboration with cross-functional partners
Setting up and facilitating communication channels
…which results in better design craft and product quality ✨
Some shipped programs
📝 A simple workflow process that enables designers to easily document and broadly share updates, blockers and dependencies, and decisions
🔍 DRI for a company-wide product review process serving as a critical holistic UX checkpoint for all product and feature launches
🙋 Intake process for cross-functional partners to receive content design support
📊 A dashboard to visualize our eng team’s backlog and how to start chipping away at it
🗳 Intake for new feature suggestions that helps determine prioritization based on impact and effort