Amy Jiménez Márquez - Design Executive

"’I've had the pleasure to work with Craig both at Amazon and at Compass. Craig is a unique leader in design. He is knowledgeable, talented across the disciplines in user experience design, a conscientious leader, and he’s humble.

He is focused on the human experience of working together as much as he is on the user experience of a product or service. In the organizations he joins, he is always the first to raise his hand and lead building a better design community. This takes the form of things like being one of 4 individuals to start 'Conflux,' Amazon’s international design conference in 2012. I was privileged to work with him when he led classes and mentoring for Amazon’s “Diversity in Design” program, which involved working with high school and college students in under-served communities.

At Compass, he organized and produced the company’s first presence at a design conference — IXDA Interactions 2021), out of which Compass was able to identify 37 design candidates to interview for the many open roles on the team.

He’s pioneered a new team at Compass — Service Desk — in designing the products and services for a 0 to 1 full-service model to help Real Estate Agents through their complex interactions. He’s been influential in the product strategy, and been able to get his design team well ahead of schedule for this significant new product launch.

Craig has also elevated the hiring processes and been central to growing the design team at Compass. He was instrumental in putting together the training materials and teaching the course for conducting behavioral interviews with the design team. In addition, he pulled together the templates, and interaction guides for phone screens, loop interviews, and whiteboard exercises.

If all of this sounds like too much for one person, it normally would be. But Craig is tireless in his energy and dedication to his team. He’s a delight to have as a colleague and quickly becomes a friend. If you have the opportunity to work with Craig, you should absolutely do so. I am happy to be able to work with him, and would do so again at any opportunity in the future."