Desiree Sokach
Program Management · Operations · Workflow Design · Systems
I turn complex operations into systems that scale.
I design programs and workflows that make multi-team work legible — clear ownership, clear handoffs, and processes people can actually follow.
Most of my work sits between people, information and process: understanding how the work moves today, then building the system that keeps it moving.
Vida Design Materials Library Operations Program
One program, three connected systems: vendor access and booking, product discovery and display, and sample circulation and returns.
01
Understand
Start with how the work actually happens — who touches it, where it stalls, and what people work around.
02
Simplify
Remove steps before adding tools. Fewer handoffs and clearer ownership beat more process every time.
03
Build
Design the workflow, the documentation and the shared language so the system is usable on day one.
04
Maintain
Keep it alive: check in, adjust, and make sure the system still fits the way the team works.
Vida Design
2025–2026Splice
2023–2024Jeff Schlarb Design Studio
2021–2022Pivot Interiors
2017–2018IDF Studio
2015–2017Earlier operations and coordination roles
2008–2015
Operations, made legible.
I'm a program and operations person. My work is figuring out how complicated, multi-team work actually moves — and then designing the systems that let it move without constant supervision.
That usually starts with listening. I map how information travels, where decisions get made, and where the same problem keeps resurfacing. From there I design workflows people can follow, with clear ownership and language everyone shares.
My background is in design and interiors, which is where I learned to coordinate vendors, schedules, materials and stakeholders under real deadlines. That context shaped how I think about operations: systems have to fit the way people already work, or they get abandoned.
Today I focus on program design, workflow design, cross-functional coordination and information management — the operational layer that keeps teams aligned as they scale.
Systems only work when they support the people using them.
At Vida, I designed library workflows around the needs of designers and vendor partners — helping materials move, get discovered, and stay useful.
These mood boards came out of a material reuse exercise I created and facilitated; each board was made by a Vida designer working from the library's active samples.
