Ryan Sherwood — Digital Experience & Design Lead, Creative Manager with 15+ years of translating ideas into content and problems into solutions
Digital Design Leader, Manager, & Strategist

Creative leadership to move people & metrics

My work blends design leadership, technical depth, and business impact to deliver experiences to reduce friction, strengthen decision‑making, and drive measurable growth.

UX & Digital Strategy Creative Content Leadership AI-Powered Merchandising CMS Governance Integrated Campaigns SEO & Content Architecture Agency Direction Multilingual Publishing UX & Digital Strategy Creative Content Leadership AI-Powered Merchandising CMS Governance Integrated Campaigns SEO & Content Architecture Agency Direction Multilingual Publishing
How I Think & Lead

Collaboration drives great design.

I build environments where designers, engineers, PMs, CX, and marketing teams can think clearly, communicate openly, and solve problems together. Even when colleagues don’t report to me, I naturally become the person they come to for answers, clarity, and direction.

My leadership philosophy is simple

Listen to understand, not to respond.

When people feel heard, collaboration flourishes.

When collaboration flourishes, results follow.

This approach creates teams that trust each other, share context, and deliver consistently strong work across every touchpoint. It also scales across projects.

My Operating Model

Strategic alignment — Clarify the problem, define success, and align stakeholders

UX & design direction — Build frameworks, hierarchies, and flows that reduce friction and support decision‑making

Cross‑functional orchestration — Partner with IT, CX, PMs, marketing, SEO, and analytics from concept through QA

AI‑driven optimization — Use merchandising logic and dynamic widgets to improve discovery and cart growth

Measurement & iteration — Monitor scroll depth, CTR, search behavior, and revenue, then refine

 

Selected Work Callouts

Case studies

Accomplishment Highlights

Leading Strategy to Grow Metrics

Every project I lead follows a consistent pattern of strategy, design, and cross-functional coordination with IT, CX, marketing, and analytics from initiation through final QA and launch measurement.

  • 400%+ growth in ATC metrics and 20%+ growth in revenue revenue from AI driven cross sell and upsell widgets strategically placed on well-trafficked site locations.
  • 15%+ site revenue and AOV growth through UX led replatforming, search & merchandising strategies, and AI driven cross sell and upsell enhancements.
  • $38M to $71M domestic web revenue growth over five years through UX led collaborations with PMs and CX to ease customer pain points with key content, services, and strategies serving customer needs.
  • Generated $847K+ in initial revenue through a content led AOV calibration campaign combining landing pages, cross-sell messaging, and email & site creative.
  • 50% increase in SEO impressions through structured UX and content page enhancements using organic searches and LLM scrapes to land users on top useful pages.
  • 40% click-through rate improvement that grew cart size 25% via IDP widget redesign and AI driven search/facet enhancements.
Additional design projects

Design examples

Expertise

What I bring

Digital strategy
UX Leadership, CMS governance, AI merchandising, replatforming, multilingual publishing
Creative content
Content architecture, campaigns, brand voice, content architecture, toolkits, editorial planning
Team leadership
Design mentorship, agency direction, stakeholder communication
Performance
SEO, A/B testing, Google Analytics, Qlik, Glassbox, conversion optimization
Ryan Sherwood
Ryan Sherwood
Digital Experience Strategist & Design Lead, Creative Manager
15+ years of translating ideas into content and problems into solutions.
Let’s work together.