# Alex Starnes

> Product Design at NVIDIA

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexstarnes

A creative and cross-functional thinker with 7+ years of experience designing and building digital products that balance user needs with business goals. With a background in engineering and design, I bring a unique perspective to product strategy—comfortable navigating ambiguity, connecting the dots, and driving progress from concept to execution. Overall, solving complex problems through clear product vision, creative solutions, and purposeful iteration is what makes me excited to show up each day.

## Work Experience
### Senior Product/UX Designer - GeForce NOW @ NVIDIA
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Driving the end-to-end UX design process for new features serving over 25 million users on Desktop, Mobile, TV, and AR/VR platforms in 100+ countries. My work is focused on creating intuitive experiences at scale that achieve core business goals.

- Championing a user-first approach by integrating data-driven research, fundamental HCI principles and rapid prototype testing and iteration into the design process.

- Translating complex business requirements into intuitive and engaging user experiences that align to our product KPIs.

- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless execution and successful, on-time feature launches in a dynamic environment.

### Product (UX) Designer @ Boeing
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Autonomy Team (Feb'20 - Nov'20)
- Perform user studies and design user flows and interfaces for SkySim, a synthetic data generation tool for perception and planning engineers

- Create and present modern UI design concepts for landing and secondary pages of Boeing’s external facing autonomy platform

- Consult internal teams on UI/UX best practices aiding them in improving usability, increasing usage and minimizing risks/assumptions

NDA Project (Jul '19-Feb'20)
- Worked on cross-functional product team of 5 in delivering executive facing software, and was responsible for establishing product goals/vision, design deliverables and ensuring team alignment

- Developed an application style guide and component library to establish product consistency across design team and application

- Prototyped(mid to high fidelity), tested and delivered responsive web designs using Agile and Lean UX practices

Analytics Team (Jan '19-Jul'19)
- Designed, tested and shipped two applications that deliver computer vision and prescriptive analytics capabilities to 100+ users in the manufacturing, supply chain and engineering functions

- Facilitated Design Workshop with stakeholders, users and product team gain alignment on problems to solve and generate insights and ideas on how to solve them

- Collaborated with software engineers to implement designs through front-end development of MaterialUI + ReactJS/NodeJS based applications

### IT Early Career Program Participant (Product Designer/Manager) @ Boeing
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Charleston, South Carolina, United States
The Early Career Program is an exclusive development program that focuses on improving participant's technical and leadership skills. Here are a few highlights from my time in the program:

- Founded an internal technology incubator that created value in the manufacturing process through the quickly testing and delivering technology solutions to the production floor

- Designed 6 virtual reality experiences that analyzed ergonomic impacts and decreased cost and cycle time in the production system by preventing engineering rework

- Organized and led a 3-day professional development event for all 80+ program participants that focused on increasing their business acumen as well as public speaking abilities

- Established and led a multi-site rotation report out for all 80+ program participants that improved participants public speaking abilities and increased awareness/reach of impactful work being done by participants.

### English Teaching Assistant @ The Fulbright Program
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Santiago De Compostela, Spain

### IT Intern @ Boeing
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Charleston, South Carolina

### Electrical Engineering Co-Op @ Eastman Chemical Company
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Kingsport, TN
Committed to safety and innovation, I was responsible for programming and installing programmable logic controllers (PLC) that served various purposes within the Utilities Division. I also worked on projects that focused on optimizing PLC programs and improving electrical equipment operations.

### Summer Transition Program Tutor @ North Carolina State University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Raleigh, NC
I worked with other tutors to assist the 30-40 incoming freshman in their classes which ranged from Calculus and Chemistry, to E115. Being a computer engineer, I focused my help in E115 and Calculus.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Engineering
North Carolina State University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alex-starnes

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Last updated: 2026-03-25