Katie Palermo
STRATEGIST | FACILITATOR | RESEARCHER
UX professional with 10+ years of experience delivering user-centered digital solutions across finance, omni-channel retail, and agency environments. Leveraging a Design Thinking certification and a mixed methodology toolkit, I translate complex challenges into actionable insights that influence design and business impact. I’m passionate about efficiency by creating scalable internal processes and bringing a blend of rigorous product management, clear stakeholder communication, and team alignment—fueled by energy, optimism, and honesty.
KEY COMPETENCIES
Adaptability
Agility
Customer Centricity
Design Thinking
Expert Communication
Execution
Experience Strategy
Influencing
Expert Communication
Execution
Experience Strategy
Influencing
Iteration and Scaling
Honest Relationship Building
Organizational & Business
Process Development
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION & EXTRA CURRICULARS
Bachelor of Communications, Public Relations, Minor: Art, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2012
Smile, We Get to Make Beer, Executive Producer, Independent film, 2013
Design Thinking Certificate, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2018
Peer Nominated Spotlight Award, Wells Fargo, 2022
Collaborative Discussion Coach Certification, Interactivity Foundation, 2024
May 2022 - May 2025
Sept 2021 - May 2022
Sept 2019 - Sept 2021
Nov 2017 - Sept 2019
Mar 2016 - July 2017
City National Bank - Contract
UX Product Owner and Senior Researcher
UXD PO within a SAFe agile environment, prioritizing initiatives across trains
Rigorous preparation and stakeholder fact finding leading up to PI planning
Created UXR scalable solutions with an emphasis of getting to the right questions and audience faster, ex intake forms, screener question repository
Executed strategic UXR ex. and multivariate prototype evaluation
Coached design team on research synthesis as part of democratization initiative
Established a UX bookclub for UX and engineering teams
Wells Fargo
Senior User Experience Researcher & Strategy Specialist
Led generative B2B API shopping and discovery research initiatives
Used service design methodologies to evaluate current-state process evaluation through future-state concept prioritization in a matrixed environment
Facilitated cross-functional design thinking and persona activation workshops
Planned quarterly research roadmaps that aligned with product roadmaps
Dentsply Sirona
Web UX Producer
Managed $3MM+ B2C digital projects, ensuring on-time delivery and risk mitigation
Streamlined internal processes to improve efficiency and organizational communication through design thinking and stakeholder listening tours
Wells Fargo - Contract
Web UX Producer
Facilitated internal UX working sessions and primary customer qualitative user interviews
Worked cross-functionally to prioritize efforts based on impact and effort.
Brought digital teams together to align on roadmaps and prioritize initiatives based on impact and effort
Wray Ward Advertising Agency
Digital Producer
Forecasted budgets, scoped digital initiatives, allocated design and development capacity/prioritization, while communicating relevant updates to stakeholders
Developed first ever QA process testing for website releases
Capacity planning, including identifying need and hiring/managing freelancers
Lead culture club and organized local community development meetups on behalf of Wray Ward
Lowe’s Companies, Inc. - Contract
Online Promotions Specialist | Marketing Deployment Producer
Managed Lowes For Pros (LFP.com) daily production updates based on promotional strategy to collecting and sharing post-production analytics
Led omni-channel 375 store weather related piloted program and 14-store interactive virtual reality (VR) kitchen and bathroom refresh pilot program
Liaison to store managers and conducted in-store ethnographic research to iterate and improve piloted programs
May 2025 - March 2026

