MERIT Employee Spotlight is a series featuring team members introducing themselves, outlining their role at MERIT, and explaining why they chose to work in the clinical trials industry.
What is your role at MERIT?
As a Graphic Designer with MERIT’s marketing department, I conceptualize and design creative materials focused on promoting and building our brand awareness and driving user experience and engagement. This includes developing social promotions, collateral, website designs, trade show booth creative, video content, and interactive PPT-based software demos. I also help layout and design scientific posters.
What is your background?
I have over a decade of experience in graphic design and marketing, most of which was spent in business-to-business marketing. Previously, I worked with a marketing agency that specialized in scientific communications, laying out posters and creating scientific figures. Prior to my time in marketing, I spent the previous decade in office and business management.
What do you like about working at MERIT?
I really love the collaborative culture at MERIT. Even though we have employees across the globe, everyone is incredibly easy to work with and conscious of accommodating different time zones. We have a great team that has produced some fantastic work over the past year. It’s incredibly rewarding to partner with colleagues globally to solve complex design challenges and bring our marketing strategy to life.
What do you do in your free time?
I live in Seattle and try to spend as much time outside as possible. I have an e-bike and enjoy biking around the city, going to parks, or just taking in the beautiful scenery around town. I love spending time with my husband and son, who just graduated from University of Washington. We often travel around the state of Washington, hiking, kayaking, or relaxing at the beach.
