Melissa Falconett🇺🇸
Principal Design Director at Google
About Melissa Falconett
Principal Design Director at Google
👋 Hello. I'm a mission-driven design executive with a track record of building, scaling, and cultivating design teams that deliver innovative, trustworthy, beautiful, and functional experiences that solve real-world problems. Human and value-sensitive design practices, craft, systems-thinking, and cross-functional collaboration sit at the core of my practice. As a people and organizational leader, I cultivate conditions where growth-mindsets, adaptability, customer centricity and curiosity thrive.
I enjoy contributing to the broader design community through mentoring, teaching, and speaking. As a mentor I can help with:
Portfolio development and presentation prep Design career planning Finding and honing your leadership voice/presence Developing business acumen as a designer Building, operating, and maturing product design teams Strategies for stakeholder influence and management Delivering effective design critique and coaching Navigating ambiguity and change
Expertise
What mentees say
“I just had my first session with Melissa and it was like a breath of fresh air. Melissa was able draw direct connections between her past experiences and my own; to drive really approachable and strategic recommendations as I chart my short-term and long-term career path. I am confident I will gain even more inspiration and clarity with her partnership in our future sessions.”
“Melissa is one of kind in the world of UX Design. She has been a great mentor, helping me to clarify my purpose and career path in UX design. I appreciated her sharing stories about her design journey that I related to, and use as motivation in pursuing my career goals. She has provided me great resources, offered highly valuable and positive critique of my work.”
“The session I had with Melissa was fabulous and very insightful. Within such a short of time we had, she was meticulously prepared to listen every word I said and helped me understand the situation and sharing actionable advices. After the 1st session, there were so many great takeaways from our conversation. I rarely write reviews but this time I had to share with my fellow designers.”