About

Amber Stickel is a Principal Design Technologist at Intuit, with almost 9 years of relevant experience in the field. She is a front-end designer and developer who is passionate about creating modular, reusable, and flexible interfaces and systems. Amber has multidisciplinary knowledge and tools in hand, and she hopes to improve the web one experience at a time. In her current role at Intuit, Amber is responsible for leading the design and development of innovative solutions for the company. She works closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that the user experience is top-notch and that the products are both functional and visually appealing. Amber is also involved in mentoring and coaching other designers and developers to help them grow in their careers. Prior to her current role, Amber worked as a Product Design Manager and Design Systems expert at Sprout Social, Inc. She defined a job description, career bands, and interview process to introduce a new role of Design Engineer to their product design practice, successfully hiring two new candidates for the role. She also led the transformation and growth of the team for a new vision from a design systems squad of two designers to a team of 12 cross-functional team members, with four direct reports. Amber maintained weekly 1:1s and career growth conversation opportunities with all individual contributors to check-in and support, providing regular feedback during 1:1s and on Slack, and formally during performance reviews. Before Sprout Social, Amber worked as a Senior Front-end Developer in Marketing UX at Shopify. Here, she collaborated closely with product marketing managers, designers, content strategists, and engineers to build marketing experiences for Shopify's financial products. Amber holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Zimmerman School of Advertising and Mass Communications from the University of South Florida. Her tech stack includes Frontend, product designer, designer, Web, and Senior Software Engineer.