Selected work 2012 – 2026

I translate behavioral research into product direction and measurable outcomes.

Fifteen years across UX, brand, and digital commerce. I build research systems, AI-enabled dashboards, and decision frameworks that help teams move from insight to execution.

UX ResearchExperience StrategyProduct & Design LeadershipAI & Insight Systems
Open to new roles · Connecticut, EST · Open to relocation
Years in practice
15
Across UX, brand, and digital commerce
Largest team led
12
Two management layers, four geographies
Sectors
5
Beauty, medical, government, non-profit, education
Countries & territories
150
Global reach of the portfolio I supported; research run across six regions
Countries visited
26
Personally, and counting. The curiosity is not a work persona.
/ Selected work

Eleven case studies

Each one is the full record: the problem, what I built, what it produced, and what I would do differently.

/ Where I’ve worked
Estée Lauder Companies
Sandstorm Design
IASLC
Warner Music Group
Viacom
DoSomething
School of Visual Arts
NYC UXPA

Eight years in-house at a global beauty portfolio, agency work across medical, government, non-profit, and education, and a decade of teaching and volunteer practice alongside it.

Caitlin M. Davis
/ About

Research and insights leader who builds the function, not just the studies.

Built UX research from zero at Estée Lauder Companies and scaled it to a twelve-person org across nine global brands, then rebuilt that muscle at agency speed for non-profit, medical, and government clients.

More about how I work
Vanguard Press
Love
Me
Ugly
Vanguard Press · 2025
Signed by No One
A newsletter on the systems that screen people out
04
Essays since July
/ Writing

A newsletter about the systems that decide who gets seen.

Signed by No One sits at the intersection of UX research and automated hiring. There is also a published poetry collection, which is the other half of the same instinct: paying close attention to what people actually say.

Read the writing