Selected Work — hamer.co

The work behind the scale.

Selected moments where strategy, systems, and craft changed what the business could deliver. Full write-ups are access-gated — reach out to request a code.

  1. 01Project Automate2025 – 2026
  2. 02Employee Service Center2017 – 2023
  3. 03Lifecycle Events2018 – 2020
  4. 04The Design Operating Model2019 – 2026

AI Design · Agentic Systems

01

2025 – 2026

Project Automate
designing the first AI Specialist.

Concept to availability in five months. How we designed an autonomous AI Specialist to resolve common IT support requests end to end through governed automation and human oversight, and why trust had to come before autonomy.

Role
Led product design and experience strategy for ServiceNow's first AI Specialist.
Scale
Complex enterprise service environments; end-to-end IT service request resolution; concept to limited availability in five months.
Decision
Designed trust, escalation, and governed human oversight into the core of the AI Specialist experience.
Outcome
Now handling 90%+ of ServiceNow's own employee IT requests; reframed AI from copilot to AI Specialist.

AI Product Design  ·  ITSM  ·  Agentic UX  ·  ServiceNow

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Enterprise UX · 0 → $1B

02

2017 – 2023

Employee Service Center
reframing the whole journey.

What happened when we stopped designing portals and started designing end-to-end employee experiences. The foundational shift that became the backbone of a billion-dollar product line.

Role
Led design of the unified cross-department employee portal.
Scale
HR, IT, Legal, and Facilities across enterprise deployments.
Decision
Reframed employee service as an end-to-end journey, not disconnected portals.
Outcome
Became the conceptual backbone of Employee Workflows.

Employee Experience  ·  HRSD  ·  Service Design  ·  0 → 1

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Employee Experience · Core HRSD

03

2018 – 2020

Lifecycle Events
the backbone, not the front door.

The Employee Service Center got the attention. Lifecycle Events did the operational work: a cross-department orchestration system guiding employees through high-stakes career moments across HR, IT, Legal, and Facilities. Now a core HRSD capability across hundreds of enterprises. At the time, it was a bet that orchestration was the missing layer.

Role
Led design of the cross-department employee lifecycle orchestration system.
Scale
HR, IT, Legal, and Facilities; now a core HRSD capability across hundreds of enterprise customers.
Decision
Treated onboarding, role changes, and offboarding as orchestration problems, not portal problems.
Outcome
Set the standard for employee lifecycle management in enterprise HR service delivery.

Service Design  ·  HRSD  ·  Orchestration UX  ·  Employee Experience  ·  0 → 1

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Design Operations · Org Scale

04

2019 – 2026

The Design Operating Model
giving the practice a spine.

Fast-growing design teams develop a consistency problem. What started as a lifecycle process I built for HRSD became an operating model for the broader Experience organization at ServiceNow. It gave design a shared language and a way to show up in product conversations with rigor, not just instinct.

Role
Led and scaled the design practice and operating model from sole designer to global design organization.
Scale
Employee Workflows grew toward $1B; HRSD team scaled from one designer to 19.
Decision
Built standards, rituals, and design infrastructure that could survive organizational change.
Outcome
Sustained quality at scale and maintained zero designer attrition through change.

Design Operations  ·  DesignOps  ·  Process Design  ·  Org Scaling  ·  Design Leadership

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