Tre Stewart
Senior Manager of Design at Alaska Airlines. 15 years stabilizing design teams under pressure — most recently the $1.9B Alaska + Hawaiian merger.
Projects that prove the pattern.
Where I've worked. What I shipped.
- Oct 2024 to present
Senior Manager of Design· Alaska Airlines
Seattle, WA- ●Led product design across internal employee platforms serving 10,000+ frontline employees through the $1.9B Alaska + Hawaiian Airlines merger integration.
- ●Launched internal design system, resolving 500+ component variations and reducing design-to-dev friction through governance, token-first architecture, and distributed platform ownership.
- ●Reduced onboarding ramp time from 3 months to 6 weeks by replacing tribal knowledge with ~70% documented processes, DesignOps frameworks, and structured guides.
LeadershipDesign systemsOperationsResearch - 2021 to 2024
Principal Designer· Walmart
Bentonville, AROlder role — the short version lives on the CV; deeper case studies in progress.
- Prior role
Senior Designer· American Airlines
Fort Worth, TXOlder role — the short version lives on the CV; deeper case studies in progress.
- Prior role
Designer· AT&T / DIRECTV
Older role — the short version lives on the CV; deeper case studies in progress.
Design leadership for operational systems.
Design leader with 15+ years building scalable systems and design operations at high-growth companies. Track record of stabilizing design organizations under pressure, enabling distributed teams to operate autonomously, and connecting design strategy to measurable business outcomes — from $864M partnership enablement at Walmart to $1.9B merger integration at Alaska Airlines.
The work sits in the complex middle: frontline employee tools, identity infrastructure, operational platforms, design systems, and the teams that have to keep them running under pressure.
The structured version.
Design leader with 15+ years building scalable systems and design operations at high-growth companies. Track record of stabilizing design organizations under pressure, enabling distributed teams to operate autonomously, and connecting design strategy to measurable business outcomes — from $864M partnership enablement at Walmart to $1.9B merger integration at Alaska Airlines.
Senior Manager of Design
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