# Benjamin Sanders > Design at Harness - We’re Hiring! Location: Aptos, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/benjaminsanders Building world class design teams Hands-on design leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling high-impact design teams at leading growth-stage and enterprise tech companies. ## Work Experience ### Head of Product Design @ Harness Jan 2026 – Present ### Director of Product Design @ Harness Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | Mountain View, CA ### Head of Design @ Productboard Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States • Led the design and brand teams, aligning design initiatives with company goals. • Implemented processes that improved cross-functional collaboration and efficiency. • Enhanced the product's user experience, contributing to increased customer satisfaction. • Managed a distributed team across multiple time zones, ensuring cohesive strategy and execution. • Hiring and deploying resources ### Sr. Design Manager & Principal Designer - Growth @ Atlassian Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States Hire and deploy a team of world-class PLG designers to deliver on ambitions goals in Buying experiences; We delivered significant impact in an economic downturn while also protecting the quality of our experiences ### Lead Designer - Growth, Buyer Experiences @ Atlassian Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States Lead designer for Growth's various top of funnel efforts that would lead to an increase in MRR; Design successful experiments, Develop IAs, Ad guidelines, design patterns, Ad controls and ml orchestration models, stakeholder management, inform exec decisions, cross geo collaboration, hiring and scaling design team ### Design Team Lead - Growth, Cloud Migrations @ Atlassian Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, CA Led a design program that unlocked Atlassian’s transition to cloud at scale. Directed and executed on the design of scalable information architectures and core UI patterns adopted across 11 teams in 4 regions. Established measurable goals and baselines that aligned design execution with product objectives. Built operational frameworks that enabled consistent, high-velocity delivery and long-term design maturity across the platform. ### Senior Designer - Growth MAU @ Atlassian Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Sr Designer delivering quality experiences that would drive customer MAU. Framing problems, breadth of design variants, and measurable goal definitions. We celebrated notable wins across upgrades, crossgrades, active usage, and virality. ### Principal Designer @ Sleuth Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Transform a POC experience into a PMF SaaS product on a fixed budget and with ruthless prioritization and self starter mentality. Successfully obtain series A, Assess and create strategies to match scope and budget for success, remain nimble! ### Design Team Lead - Mobile (player coach) @ uShip Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Austin, Texas Area Lead a team of in-house mobile delivery legends to match our abilities, address feature gaps, and raise the bar of quality. Increase app rating from 2.5 to 4stars, developed strategy for design components to solve feature gaps and quality. ### Design Team Lead @ Mutual Mobile Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | austin, texas area Lead teams of designers on design quality, managing existing contracts, and effective approaches for obtaining new clients; storytelling, art direction, visual design excellence ### Lead Visual Designer @ RockSauce Studios Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | 7703 N.Lamar Blvd, Austin TX 78752 ### Senior Visual Designer @ RockSauce Studios Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Austin, Texas Area Lead UI Designer for Mobile Platforms ### Mobile Product Designer @ Appiction LLC Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Austin, Texas Area Visual Design for iPhone/iPad/Android operating environments ### Motion Graphics Designer @ MiddleHouse Events, LLC Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | Carver MA ### Designer @ Mediumstudio Jan 2005 – Jan 2008 | New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States ### Designer @ Onemine Marketing and Advertising Jan 2003 – Jan 2007 Onemine is a marketing company known for its success in the food/grocery industry. ### Camp Counselor / Skatepark Director / Specialist @ YMCA Southcoast Jan 2002 – Jan 2005 ### Site Coordinator @ YMCA of San Diego County Jan 2002 – Jan 2003 Childcare Site Coordinator for the 6to6 Program ## Education ### video production New England Institute of Technology ### Animation in Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects New England Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sansjamin - Portfolio: http://atlassian.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/benjaminsanders JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/benjaminsanders/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13