Open to Head of Design roles
Mitratech's governance, risk and compliance business is a ~$100M ARR portfolio of 13 products that keep enterprises audit ready and out of court. One design function serves all of it. I built that function from nothing, and five designers and I run it together.
Design system owner Designers who ship their own front end AI embedded in research and delivery 9+ years in enterprise product design
ARR of the business unit whose design function I own.
Enterprise products supported by one design team.
Designers hired, levelled, and given product ownership.
Faster design cycles, two weeks down to four days.
What I am known for
Not a job description. These are the patterns that show up in every team I have run and every product I have shipped.
Design here was a UI service desk. Rebuilding it took a practice with its own research, its own standards, and a seat in the product decisions that matter. That rebuild is the work I am proudest of, and the team owns it now.
The team embeds AI across research, ideation and delivery, then cuts whatever does not hold up. Setting that bar is my job. It speeds the work and keeps data heavy systems trustworthy. Judgment stays with people.
I built a design engineering practice: designers sit with customers, then fix the UI in the codebase and deploy it themselves. No handoff, no ticket queue, no waiting a sprint for a four pixel problem. I still design too, and a working prototype inside 48 hours when a deal needs one.
Shared standards and a single research process took design cycles from two weeks to four days, and research from three weeks to a week and a half. Repeatable beats heroic.
The shape of the role
One design team covering thirteen products means going wide by necessity and deep by choice. Here is where each one has gone.
Depth: where I went hands on
Selected work
Governance, risk and compliance is the software that keeps enterprises audit ready and out of court. Six bets inside it, and the practice that made them possible. Each one starts with a business problem and a user quietly working around it.
The thinking, the decisions and the tradeoffs, in detail.
Design was a UI delivery function with no research capability and no shared standards, across thirteen products that had each evolved on their own.
OutcomeOne to five designers, 60% faster design cycles
Read the case study Design systemsThirteen products, thirteen front end stacks, and a component library nobody could reuse. Developers read the spec and approximated it, so the system drifted faster than we could correct it.
OutcomeOne system, every stack, pulled by MCP
Read the case study AI systemsCustomer insight sat in Gong, Salesforce, Zendesk and Productboard. Teams rebuilt the same understanding every quarter because retrieving it was slower than guessing.
OutcomeResearch cycles, 3 weeks to 1.5
Read the projectProduct work that ships inside Mitratech, so the screens and the specifics stay internal. The problems, the research and the reasoning are all things I can take you through directly. Ask me about any of it.
"I watched him blossom from a great UX designer (individual contributor) into a leader of designers... He is a true player-coach."
Writing
Essays on design leadership, constraints, and using AI without pretending it does the thinking.
Why your resume is judged like any design artifact, and how to avoid the common red flags.
Adopting AI with a clear why, not just to look modern. Value over noise.
Why the best experiences feel invisible, effortless, and get out of the user’s way.
Why minimalism is about what you keep and why, not just removing UI.
Why constraints fuel smarter solutions and drive impact in legacy systems.
Designing for REAL impact (Results, Empathy, Actionable, Learn) instead of chasing praise.
Moving from “perfect” to practical with Minimum Viable Design, faster testing, and feedback-first habits.
Why ruthless prioritization and intentional “no”s keep interfaces focused and meaningful.
Open to Head of Design roles. If you are building a design function, or rebuilding one, let's talk through what it would take.
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