# Austin Modern > Senior Product Designer | Startup & Enterprise Platforms Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/austinmodern Product Designer with 8 years experience working with startups and Fortune 500 brands. Proficient in Sketch, Figma, Principle, InVision, and Adobe Creative Suite. Skilled within user research, UX design, interaction design, visual design, illustration, and art direction. ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer @ Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | New York City Metropolitan Area Led product design for complex, regulated internal platforms spanning patient-facing experiences, clinical tools, and enterprise data workflows. • Owned end-to-end design across multiple internal systems, translating ambiguous clinical, operational, and regulatory requirements into scalable user journeys, interaction models, and system-level solutions • Partnered closely with product and engineering to define roadmaps, scope MVPs, and deliver production-ready designs, balancing user needs with technical, data, and compliance constraints • Drove research-informed decision-making through qualitative research, usability testing, and stakeholder synthesis, contributing to build-vs-buy evaluations, vendor assessments, and future-state platform visioning ### Product Designer @ Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | New York City Metropolitan Area ### Product Design Consulant @ Read by Jane Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | New York, United States As a product design consultant within a three-person design team, we worked with the early-stage startup, Read by Jane, to infer a market fit and business opportunity, develop and expand an MVP feature set, and understand the prospective user. • Conducted user research studies to uncover user needs, pain points, and behaviors leading to strategic and actionable product decisions • Analyzed business goals and opportunities through competitive/comparative analysis and heuristic analyses • Developed an MVP feature set and product roadmap through feature prioritization methodologies and leading design workshops • Created and tested user-centered prototypes and pixel-perfect interfaces by considering data, user feedback, user research, and technical/budget constraints • Prepared documentation for client and developer handoff ### Visual Designer @ Ease Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area As the sole visual designer at Ease, I was accountable for advocating for design across the company, building design processes and timelines, and contributing to strategic design decisions in collaboration with executive leadership. My responsibilities included: • Developed the identity guidelines and design system, promoting its adoption to bring consistency and support to all departments • Produced high-quality visual design, from concept to implementation, in collaboration with Marketing, Engineering, and Product teams • Collaborated with engineering to redesign Ease's website for a ReactJS Framework, providing quality assurance checks throughout development to ensure a high-quality launch ### Communications Designer @ Mercer Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area As a designer within the global creative team, I was responsible for all stages of design, thinking strategically while executing objectives and demonstrating great attention to detail. My work at Mercer included: • Partnered with Executive Leadership, Marketing, Product, and Engineering to develop the Voice on Growth brand and website, championing for the user in every design decision whilst meeting business goals ultimately seeing 400k+ new subscribers within two months of launch • Collaborated with Creative Directors, Designers, Copywriters, Editors, and Clients to produce high-quality designs and campaigns, from concept to implementation, across diverse media (digital, print, environmental) ### Visual Designer @ Pipedrive Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area Working as a visual designer alongside a 30+ person product and marketing team, I assisted with the following: • Established a new illustration style implemented across the company resulting in improved user delight and increased ad CTR by over 400% • Developed the design rationale and explained visual choices to cross-functional teams; expressing concepts verbally and visually • Created and iterated on pixel-perfect assets that reflected the Pipedrive brand and delivered value to the end-user ### Branded Environments Designer @ Perkins+Will Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Chicago, IL As a member of the Branded Environments/Signage and Wayfinding team, my responsibilities included: • Assisted project managers, designers, and architects in the development and application of strategic wayfinding and signage systems—always advocating for accessibility and the end-user • Constructed signage in 3D with a high-quality understanding of form, color, type, layout, materiality and space • Developed, adapted, and/or maintained design systems from branding to physical spaces for local and international clients and projects including: American Express, Bank of Canada, al-Masjid al-Ḥarām, and Unilever • Researched local communities and municipality codes to ensure legal, meaningful, and accessible development and implementation of wayfinding systems ### Graphic Designer @ Harrington College of Design Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Working for Harrington's internal design team my responsibilities included: • Maintained, documented, and prepared designs for cross-department usage • Met deadlines while managing several short and long term projects • Worked with senior staff between several departments to execute effective design solutions • Upheld brand guidelines across a variety of designs ## Education ### Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Graphic Design Harrington College of Design ### Certificate of Completion in UX Design, UX Design General Assembly ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/austinjmodern - Website: https://www.austinjmodern.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/austinmodern JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/austinmodern/resume.json Last updated: 2026-02-23