Skottie O’Mahony
Former PayPal and Amazon.com design director seeking a new opportunity to lead, manage and develop a design team with a company that highly values customer and user experience innovation and has offices in Austin, Texas.
User-experience design professional with an over 15-year career leading both domestic and international product and marketing design teams for publishing, e-commerce and online payments for desktop, tablet, mobile and point-of-sale systems. Successfully directed global design teams of visual and user experience designers and led the art and creative direction, as well as marketing, brand and product design support to deliver innovative localized solutions for stakeholders.
Recognized for ability to select talent and develop leaders and teams in preparation for scalable growth. Proven track record of elevating design while increasing production efficiencies and interpreting/transforming complex business requirements into innovative design solutions.
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
E-Commerce (global UX/VX direction and web design): Amazon.com, Peak Creative Media (14 years)
Online Payments (global UX/VX direction): PayPal (2 years)
Publishing (art direction, marketing and Identity design): Seattle Magazine, Alaska Airlines Magazine, Northwest Skier, Community NW, etc. (9 years)
PayPal
When I was approached by PayPal, I had little interest in making a move from Amazon; however, when they explained that they wanted to reinvent and improve the site experience, it was an opportunity that I could not pass up and one where I felt that I could make a significant difference. I decided to make the move to Austin to develop PayPal’s design team and elevate the user experience.
As Director of Visual Experience Design, overseeing the visual layer for all touch points, was exciting—and the fact that there was such support to improve the experience made it a worthwhile endeavor. I’ve included a selection of projects below where I played a strategic role. Click any image for more detail.
Amazon.com
I worked for Amazon for over twelve years. In that time I held many different roles and worked on literally thousands of projects from the redesign of the electronics, tools and kitchen category homepage templates and the complete re-articulation of the global navigation, to launching new international sites and product categories and reinventing the way that Amazon addressed it’s fashion categories.
There are no words to describe how much I learned at Amazon and the bonds that I made with such impressive talent throughout the company. It was a journey and an education all in one and I continue to be a huge fan of Amazon. The examples that I’ve included are, for the most part, larger-scale fashion projects that I was involved in, but I have also included a couple of other pieces to show diversity. Click any image for more detail.
skotodesign, publishing & personal work
Prior to working in web and mobile, I had a long career in print, publishing and marketing. Here are a few examples of that work, including brand identity and logo design, editorial illustration, interior and architectural work, and photography. There's also page dedicated to team building and management. Building great teams is very important to me and I strive to share, educate and/or inspire anyone that I encounter in some way.
This section shows the diversity of my work outside of my corporate roles. I have an intense passion for all design-related disciplines and I like to work in as many as I can. Inspiration can come from anything that I encounter and experience - by exposing myself to other areas of designs, it improves the work that I do overall and continued learning feeds the soul. Click any image for more detail.
