As Head of User Experience for Curology, I was tasked with helping the company shift from a traditional subscription growth model to an omni-channel acquisition model. My team rapidly envisioned this new model bridging traditional retail, eCommerce, and a DTC subscription model with a core tenant of increasing our core Rx-subscription business.
PHYSICAL TO DIGITAL
Driving RX subscriptions via our new retail channel
Prior to Curology's retail launch at Target in December of 2022, I identified a missing opportunity to purposefully convert retail customers to our Rx subscription. I surfaced this opportunity to the VP of Brand, and with their partnership my team lead a cross-functional design sprint to ideate on the solution. The core focus was on how to exceed our original organic Rx conversion forecasts from this new retail channel. The effort included creating a new cross-functional partnership between the digital and physical product teams, that previously hadn't existed. This cross-functional team built a deep understanding of the target retail customer leveraging Consumer Insights data, collectively identified opportunities for converting these customers, then rapidly tested these new hypotheses via UX Research. The end result was key updates to the physical package design before print lockdown 3 months prior to retail launch, and the creation of a robust landing page experience with custom Calls to Action (CTA) focused on subscription conversion tied to email campaign follow-ups.
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Results​
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17% conversion rate for the experience, a +3% increase over Curology's main DTC purchasing funnel
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+63% of new retail DTC subscriptions attributed to this digital experience
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2023 forecast expected to be ~2 million organic DTC subscriptions driven by this digital experience increasing revenue by +$4 million in 2023
eCOMMERCE
Facilitating rapid deployment while focusing on strategic revenue drivers
In order to bring an eCommerce platform online, I strategically aligned my team by making key decisions on how and where to focus the work. Curology partnered with BigCommerce in order to leverage their easily "skinable" platform and out of the box eCommerce capabilities. By effectively partnering with the VP of Product, VP of Engineering, and the BigCommerce team, I was able to focused my team on the most strategically valuable integration challenges (e.g. Subscription vs. non-Subscription login experiences, Site IA and cart integration, and ad hoc purchasing within a subscription) instead of limiting the work to just facilitating the MVP release via UI and visual design updates.
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Results
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Initial MVP was designed and launched in 6 weeks
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Non-Subscription revenue from MVP projected at $20 million in 2023
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Increased monthly order value for subscription customers from $50 to $65 due to my team strategically focusing on non-Rx ad hoc purchasing as a part of MVP launch