Briona Walker
Briona Walker is a versatile web content specialist and digital strategist with over a decade of experience in design, UX, web development, and digital product systems. She began her journey in high school, exploring Photoshop and Illustrator, which sparked a passion for creative problem solving and digital design. This led her to earn an associate’s degree in Graphic and Web Design from the Art Institute of Atlanta, complemented by certifications in front-end development and social media management. Over the years, Briona has honed her skills across web design, UX/UI, content strategy, market research, and project management, allowing her to bridge the gap between creativity and technical execution in every project she takes on.
Briona’s professional career spans multiple roles in digital design and content management. She has worked as a social media manager and UX designer for ShineThru, a web designer and site authoring specialist for Bose Corporation, and a brand strategist and lead UX designer at Frame Change. Currently, she serves as a Digital Product Systems Specialist at a Fortune 100 tech company, where she manages digital content workflows, localization, CMS structure, product availability, and global assets. Her work emphasizes intentionality, efficiency, and building systems that integrate design, engineering, and operations, ensuring seamless user experiences and functional digital infrastructure.
Beyond her technical expertise, Briona is passionate about continuous learning, innovation, and giving back to her community. She is a member of the Forbes Black BLK community and stays engaged with emerging technologies, AI-assisted workflows, and digital systems. Briona’s philosophy is rooted in problem-solving through design, combining strategy with creativity to produce solutions that make meaningful impact. Looking ahead, she plans to expand her skills into mobility and energy infrastructure, applying her technical and creative abilities to new industries while continuing to grow as a technologist and strategist.
• Front End Development/Front End Code
• HootSuite Certification
• Growth-Driven Design Agency Certification Course
• Facebook Ads
• Wordpress
• Digital Marketing
• Art Institute of Atlanta- Associate's
• Forbes Black BLK Community
• Feed the Homeless
What do you attribute your success to?
My number one is definitely building relationships, because it's definitely who you know. Continuous learning as well. Yes, be a hard worker, but also be a smart worker, be efficient. So, efficiency and structure and functionality, and just have fun. So, I don't know if those are attributes, but I definitely would put all that into my work.
What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Hold your ground and be confident, especially as a female in the tech industry. It's male-dominated. Over-communicate when it comes to your work. If you're working with co-workers or project managers and things like that, I always receive great compliments because I over-communicate. I make things clear, and I make sure to understand my job responsibilities thoroughly.
What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Like I mentioned before, just be intentional about being in this industry and know what you want to do. I wouldn't recommend it to anybody who doesn't find a passion for tech in some way, form, or fashion to take on a heavy-duty tech role. So just make sure your intentions are correct. It's like being a nurse, right? When you're a nurse, you'll want to be taken care of by the nurse who loves taking care of people, who's passionate, who's driven, who studies, who keeps up continuously. And I think in tech, it's the same thing when it comes to innovation and engineering. You want to have a passion for it, you want to study, you want to be a continuous learner, and I think the main thing I just always keep saying is be intentional about it.
What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
I think the biggest challenge is that in tech, there's this glorified ideology centered around making, having big pay. So, I could just get this certification for 6 months, and I'll be making 6 figures. So, I think that causes people to enter the industry with false hope and false intentions, and I just truly believe when it comes to innovation, we need intentional scientists and innovators, when it comes to AI and robots, we want to be careful with our intent when we're coming into this field. So, I think that's the biggest challenge. I think that you have to kind of have a knit for these type of things instead of just wanting to get into it because of the pay, or this glorified trend to be in tech, because it is hard and it's very technical. And you want to be intentional. I would say the biggest reward is the pay when you get to that point. It is the pay, and also too, depending on where you are in tech, and for me, it's wanting to be a part of innovation, and wanting to help people coexist with technology more, and finding that balance, and understanding it more. So I think that, for me, that would be the biggest reward.
What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
The values most important to me in both my work and personal life are intentionality, continuous learning, building strong relationships, and applying technology with efficiency, structure, and a sense of responsibility.