Grace Goudreau

UX Designer

Chicago, IL | 331.222.6175 | goudreaugrace@gmail.com | GraceGoudreau.com

Summary

Enterprise UX Designer specializing in transforming deep ambiguity into high-craft, scalable digital experiences. Proven track record of driving cross-functional alignment across product and engineering to build trust-first AI systems and complex supply chain tools. Pioneer in AI-native design methodologies - utilizing advanced AI prototyping workflows to accelerate validation loops, secure executive buy-in, and deliver measurable business impact.

Experience

Senior UX Designer - PepsiCo

Apr 2026 - Present

UX Strategy & Leadership: Spearheaded the UX vision and prototype strategy for a next-generation AI negotiation-support tool that directly impacts 60% of PepsiCo's European revenue.
Executive Buy-In & Funding: Transformed fragmented data and unadopted AI agents into a trust-first decision experience; delivered a proof-of-concept that shifted leadership's perspective on the value of UX, securing corporate investment to scale AI-driven workflows across the enterprise.
AI-Accelerated Innovation: Designed and validated a high-fidelity prototype within an accelerated 3-week sprint by leveraging AI-native design tools and validating concepts through cross-functional alignment and synthetic user feedback loops.
Product Strategy & BigTech Collaboration: Co-developed a predictive scenario-modeling tool in direct partnership with Google, empowering an elite team of US planners to rapidly simulate and optimize complex supply chain logistics.
Enterprise Product Integration: Spearheaded the design and architecture of strategic AI content tools, successfully integrating them into PepsiCo's centralized global employee platform.

UX Designer - PepsiCo

Jul 2024 - Apr 2026

Global Product Rollout: Served as the core designer for a high-volume internal order-monitoring tool handling the end-to-end lifecycle from initial intake to SAP confirmation, scaling the product across Poland, DACH, France, the UK, and NWE markets.
Workflow Modernization: Redesigned a fragmented, legacy multi-system process into a single, cohesive guided workflow, providing operations teams with real-time tracking and accelerating end-to-end processing speeds.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnered closely with product owners, engineering teams, and global business stakeholders to translate dense operational constraints into a scalable, intuitive interface.

Product Design Intern - West Monroe

May 2023 - Aug 2023

Consulting & Delivery: Translated diverse user needs, client business goals, and technical infrastructure constraints into production-ready design solutions across multiple client engagements.

Projects & Leadership

Open-Source AI Workflow Architecture (Figma & Dev Mode Integration): Built and publicly shared an end-to-end POC demonstrating the AI-first design workflow - a working argument for designing experiences over screens.
AI Workflow Enablement: Delivered multiple presentations to UX designers and developers on integrating AI into team workflows, showing how AI-assisted design and build accelerate iteration, reduce design-to-development friction, and increase team efficiency.
Thought Leadership: Ongoing LinkedIn writing on the "Design Thinking Era," documenting firsthand AI workflow experiments and the shift toward designing experiences over screens.

Skills

Design

Product Design, UX Strategy, AI Interaction Design, Design Systems, Enterprise Software Architecture, Service Design, User Research, Information Architecture, AI Prototyping

AI & Build

Figma Make, Figma MCP / Dev Mode, Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, Claude Cowork

Collaboration

Executive Stakeholder Management, Cross-Functional Leadership, Engineering Enablement