# Adam Dworak > Product Design Leader (Product Design, User Research, AI) Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/adamdworak My role as a Product Design Director over my two-decade journey is one of pushing boundaries in AI and fostering innovation. I lead multidisciplinary teams, steering them toward new heights while cultivating a culture of creativity, collaboration and process improvement. My design philosophy revolves around user research and data shaping our decision-making. By championing integrating qualitative and quantitative insights, our products exceed user expectations, resulting in increased engagement proving market fit through metrics. I'm a design trailblazer, but also a player-coach. Fostering an environment nurturing innovative thinking and encouraging my researchers and designers to explore groundbreaking concepts based around user pain-points is my main focus. As head of UX I've led teams in creating greenfield products that stand out and resonate with users generating millions in increased ARR per project. Simultaneously, I guide my team on a 1-1 level as they refine and extend features to ensure our products evolve in response to changing user needs, maintaining relevance and excellence. From day one I bring scalable design culture - embedding design thinking across departments, enhancing collaboration and ensuring a consistent brand experience as director of design. I hire for design ops to allow scaling to match growing engineering and product teams and products. Implementing design systems with my proven methodology is my trademark value-add to increasing team velocity and teammate satisfaction across departments. Using decades of honed skills in creating empathetic, high-throughput teams, my designers craft intuitive user interfaces that are cutting-edge. Whether directing design for the world's most innovative HR AI (artificial intelligence) company or previously managing a team at Upwork reimagining remote work into a fulfilling reality, my designers thrive on unique product design challenges. At StubHub, as the Lead Product Designer of Seller Tools, I orchestrated consumer app design projects, increasing ticket sales inventory by a eye-popping multiple. Colleagues describe me as a driven, down-to-earth director of UX and CXO — a builder of world-class product design teams. I tutor and mentor leadership skills, research, wireframing, prototyping, stakeholder engagement, process optimization, testing, and grow my designers careers. - As a lifelong artist since age four ( 4D4M ) you've heard my releases on shows like: Bad Girls Club, E! News, Fashion Police, films, and at EDM festivals. For music licensing/sync, email MGMT@4D4M.com ## Work Experience ### Director of UX - AI, Assistance & Support @ Walmart Jan 2025 – Present Leads F1 design strategy for AI-enabled products that support Walmart’s Global Talent & Learning ecosystem, impacting millions of employees worldwide. Oversees a world-class product design team across platforms focused on talent acquisition, internal mobility, skills intelligence, upskilling, retention, and workforce transformation. Drives the designers of AI-powered tools to innovate freely, enabling personalized career pathing, intelligent job matching, skills assessments, and predictive talent insights. Partners with product, engineering, data science, and HR to deliver scalable, human-centered solutions that align enterprise goals with associate success. Guides multidisciplinary design teams in creating accessible, data-informed experiences that integrate machine learning, natural language processing, and recommendation systems. Focus areas include next-gen hiring experiences, learning and development journeys, skills-based workforce planning, and internal talent marketplaces -anchored in system thinking, equity, and measurable impact while staying true to company values around EDLC and scale. ### Product Design Leader @ Velocity Global Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | United States ### Director of Product Design @ SkyHive Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Palo Alto, California, United States Director of digital experience research and design for the SkyHive labor intelligence product suite. ### Product Design Manager @ Upwork Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Product Design @ Brightidea Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Lead Designer, Seller Tools @ StubHub Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Product Designer @ Granicus Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | St. Paul Product designer at the world's biggest government focused communications SaaS, GovDelivery.com (now Granicus.com) Shaped the look and feel of industry-leading applications suite used to send millions of emails and text messages sent daily for state and local government.  Part of all phases of the product development process, including research, ideation, testing, iteration and execution. Worked closely with product managers/owners and engineering team to build intuitive user experiences. Crafted clickable prototypes to user test with and to provide top-notch documentation for feature development stories. Advanced the visual design language of applications by using and contributing to design system, implementing later feature work in SCSS, Html, Ruby/React. Adhered design work to 508/WCAG for excellent accessibility. Championed design system daily. ### UX Designer & Digital Director @ AdamDworak.com Jan 2006 – Jan 2014 ### Ux designer | User Experience Producer @ AdamDworak.com Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Chicago, IL Designer, producer and artist for various web, multimedia, concert clients. ### UX Designer | UX Developer @ DreamCo Design Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 As Dreamco Design's sole UX Designer, I was responsible for all the original design work the company produced during my employment, from prototyping and wireframing to the pixel-perfect layouts for clients including fantasy sports betting sites, celebrity & artist websites, eCommerce stores and complex Wordpress sites. I also did front end development on about 20% of my designs while here. ### Ux designer @ MFGC OWNED LLC Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Chicago, IL Provided design support to company (also called MFGC Owned, LLC and Owned Networks) founded by the eventual tinder co-founders during projects for TaylorSwiftNation.com , various MTV clients and celebrities as a graphic designer. Produced audio and video tutorials for front-facing site support documentation. ## Education ### Art/Art Studies in General Columbia College Chicago ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adamdworak - Portfolio: http://adamdworak.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/adamdworak JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/adamdworak/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13