Testimonials

“I had the privilege of working with Claire for eight months as my first manager at Fender. I was impressed by her exceptional leadership qualities, her steadfast commitment to her team, and her ability to foster a supportive and productive work environment.
Claire embodies the essence of a true leader. She possesses an uncanny ability to recognize each team member's unique strengths and identify areas for growth. With this understanding, she tailors her guidance to help individuals develop their skills and achieve their full potential.
Claire's dedication to her team is truly admirable. She actively seeks out and connects her team members with valuable resources both within the company and from external vendors to enhance their professional development. She consistently goes above and beyond to share insights, guidance, and information about available training opportunities.
Claire's leadership played a pivotal role in my rapid acclimation to Fender and my ability to make meaningful contributions to the team and organization. She is dedicated to her team and organization’s success. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to have worked under her mentorship and wholeheartedly recommend her as an exceptional asset to any team.
Even now, I am incredibly fortunate to have Claire as a stakeholder and mentor. She continues to be a steadfast source of support and guidance. She is always willing to connect me with the right resources and individuals to address my questions and facilitate my growth within the organization. I am deeply indebted to her for her mentorship and unwavering support.”

— Coty Pastene, Data Product

“I have worked with Claire at Fender since 2016, and she has been my manager since 2021. Claire is an excellent manager who is very attentive to her employee's needs, is willing to help out with any and all issues, and leads her team with a consistently empathetic attitude. As a co-worker in the digital product space, Claire knows how to effectively strategize across multiple teams, gain alignment and maintain focus to get valuable products built and delivered in a timely and impactful way. She has a deep technical knowledge, is passionate about researching and learning the latest technical advancements and opportunities, and is always pushing the organization to be as cutting edge as possible. Claire is an absolute master of data analytics as well and has been a huge influence helping Fender become a more data-oriented company. Her organizational skills are unmatched, and perhaps most importantly she is continually keeping the end user in mind no matter the project. I've learned a lot from Claire in my career and think she is an invaluable asset to any team!”

— Perry Martin, Product

“I worked with Claire for nearly seven years at Fender. She was one of the first product leads on the team and it was her creativity, expertise and business sense that strongly contributed to the successful digital ecosystem in place today. On top of that, she is always helpful, stays on top of digital product trends, and she kills it with her Halloween costumes.”

— Jennifer Schwartz, SVP Digital Product

“Claire may be the most all-around "competent" co-worker I've ever had — and her passion, curiosity and dedication is 100% contagious. Her talents are far reaching, including UI/UX design, frontend development, project/product management (organization machine!) and shared playlist expert. Claire not only helped execute and ship numerous web/mobile projects, but she sat in many high-level business meetings, working with the executive team to hone ideas and goals into prioritized, executable tasks. She's a pleasure to work with and I hope to work with her again soon.”

— Brock Batten, Creative Director

“Claire can do it all. She is a team leader and can easily handle a large project on her own with little direction. She will go the extra 10 miles to help prepare the team for next steps. Consistently, she is ahead of the curb and is churning out high quality work. In addition to all this, she helps create an incredible team culture and environment. I feel lucky to have worked with her on multiple projects. She is highly respected by her peers. I cannot say enough wonderful things about her and have learned a great deal from her and her work ethic. She is a great friend that will keep the team laughing and learning. I’m honored to have had the opportunity to work with her and hope to have the chance again.”

— Phil Tobias, Engineer

“I had the good fortune of hiring Claire to lead the UX efforts for Ubiquiti’s UI Lab. Claire was brought on board to help our team better implement a user-centered approach to design and improve on our Agile practices, while producing UX deliverables for a wide range of software products. During her time with the company, she has far exceeded those early expectations. Claire is indispensable. She is a thoughtful, efficient, hard-worker who contributes across the spectrum — design and development; product and project management; all while helping to build a fun, inclusive workplace culture. Claire has contributed UI, UX and IA deliverables to a breadth of projects at Ubiquiti.
Her contributions include:
• Competitive analysis
• Working with the business to define and document product requirements for MVP and beyond
• Quickly producing UX deliverables (user flows, site maps, wireframes, mock-ups, clickable prototypes, etc.) and rapidly iterating to refine
• Coaching and collaborating with both junior and senior team members to produce the best UX solutions
• Identifying, defining and designing UI/UX design patterns and components for use across multiple applications
• Promoting cross-functional efforts between the business, back-end developers, front-end developers and designers
• Improving team efficiency by managing and educating on Agile best practices (creating tickets, running sprints and authoring documentation)
• QA throughout software release cycles
• Introducing a strategy for customer engagement and feedback on our software through user research, surveys, authoring personas, tracking analytics and in-app messaging.
• Championing and facilitating the adoption of products and technology that increase team efficiency while improving the company’s software offerings (JIRA, Confluence, Google Analytics, MailChimp, Intercom, Invision, etc.)

In addition to these contributions, Claire has the qualities that would improve any team:
• Highly productive
• A willingness to wear many hats in the interest of moving a project forward
• Quickly researches and presents viable solutions
• Thoroughness and attention to detail that exposes gaps and edge cases
• Understanding of and engagement with highly technical products and subject-matter
• A passion for UI/UX, technology and product

These are the same reasons Claire came to us highly recommended and I gladly give her the same endorsement. Any company would be lucky to have her.”

— Andrew Seles, Creative Director

“I worked with Claire on a couple of projects over the past year and a half. Over that time she has consistently impressed me with her clearly thought out and well researched UX designs. She has an assertive attitude that ensures that all her good ideas are heard but is careful to listen to others. At the center of all her ideas is the user. If new information is presented that causes her design to no longer be valid she will turn on a dime and go in that new direction at full speed, contributing and improving upon it. If there were ever a role that combined her creative UX talents with the full authority to make them happen, I think Claire would be perfect for it.”

— Patrick Weygand, Engineer

“Claire is better than they come. I had the privilege of working with her at Border Stylo where we worked closely and I got to feed her the work she was hungry for. She always came through and provided excellent product wireframes, specs and use cases. When we parted ways at Border Stylo I couldn't continue on working without her so we met up again at Mobile Roadie where she really stepped up and took the ranks. Anyone would be a fool to not want to work with her. She's got her head on straight and pays attention to every detail.”

— David Harthcock, Product Designer

“Claire is an "A" player, and one of the best people I've been fortunate enough to work with. She is extremely smart, talented, dedicated, and focused. She knows how to work as a team, and how to step up and lead. She isn't afraid to step outside of her normal duties to do something that needs to be done. Any company would benefit from having Claire. I wouldn't hesitate to work with her in the future and give her the highest recommendation to anyone considering it.”

— Min Choi, Director of R&D

“It was a joy to work with Claire. She's got beautiful design savvy, a great attitude and a never-say-die work ethic. Any team would be lucky to have her either at the helm or propelling the ship.”

— Derek Taylor, Creative Director