# Cecilia Silvestre > Lead Product Designer Location: Oakland, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ceciliasilvestre Lead Product Designer with 10+ years of experience bringing 0→1 enterprise products to life. I specialize in turning complex, technical workflows into intuitive, user-friendly interfaces that drive adoption and impact. My work spans AI-powered data quality, data lineage and analysis, and data catalog experiences, where I blend systems thinking, user empathy, and design leadership to solve high-stakes problems at scale. I thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and love helping teams move from big ideas to actionable, elegant product solutions. ## Work Experience ### Lead Product Designer @ Alation Jan 2022 – Present At Alation, I drove design for AI-powered Data Quality and reimagined foundational catalog experiences, including lineage visualization and customizable homepages. - Led 0→1 initiatives that transformed underutilized or “spaghetti monster” features into intuitive, scalable tools. - Designed user-friendly interfaces for complex data tasks, increasing discoverability, trust, and engagement across enterprise customers. - Partnered with cross-functional teams to align product vision, engineering feasibility, and customer needs. - Contributed to Alation’s broader platform redesign, setting the foundation for modern, extensible design systems. ### Senior Product Designer @ Classkick Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 - Conducted studies with teachers in order to understand their day-to-day experiences and used the research to inform design decisions. - Leveraged research to inform designs on an updated core canvas experience and a new experimental homework app. ### Senior Product Designer @ AllStripes Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area - Redesigned existing internal data platform to better support our medical researchers by removing dependencies on third-party tools and increasing efficiency by 3x. - Applied design thinking to product strategy workshops and helped unite the product team on a central vision for our research platform. ### Product Designer @ LaunchDarkly Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 - Led design and research efforts for the company’s largest projects: experimentation and feature workflows. - Collaborated with PM and engineering, forming a triad, to inform product scope and milestones. - Established regular collaborative whiteboarding sessions with PM and engineering to increase visibility and participation in the design process. - Helped establish new design patterns and components in order to achieve more consistency and accessibility in our application. ### Senior UX Designer and Researcher @ Cisco Meraki Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area - Led design and research output for client health dashboard that enables users to see their network health in a holistic manner. - Partnered with engineering to ensure design components were reusable. - Documented customer journey with touchpoints, metrics of success, and pain points in order to facilitate company-wide discussions on customer experience. - Led research initiative to understand and improve the information architecture of our core product. - Applied design thinking methods to company-wide diversity and inclusion efforts with the goal to improve inclusion experience. ### UX Designer @ OSIsoft Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area I work closely with development teams and customers in order to bridge together the business needs and user needs for our product design and development. I help create software that allows our users to do their jobs easily with as little frustration as possible by listening to our users. -Introduce and apply research methods to development projects such as card sorting, storyboarding, experience maps, concept testing, and usability testing -Collaborate with a team of product managers, developers, and designers in an agile environment to deliver the optimal customer experience -Provide heuristic evaluations and design suggestions to existing products -Acted as the lead UX researcher and designer on the first product team to employ embedded UX and a regular cadence of user feedback -Deliver mock-ups of varying fidelity, wireframes, and storyboards to convey ideas and concepts to users and internal teams -Conducted user research and usability testing with internal and external users across the world to generate actionable insights -Traveled to customer sites to observe and interview users in context of their work ### Customer Support Engineer @ OSIsoft Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area As a CSE I provided technical expertise to OSIsoft customers, solving complex troubleshooting problems and questions for 450+ products over the phone, by email, and on-site. I traveled throughout the US to install and teach our customers about the PI System. I mentored incoming international Customer Support Engineers and helped new hires assimilate to the company. As a project, I created an experience map identifying key pain points of our users and shared it across the company to help kickstart a few projects and introduce new UX research methods. -Worked closely with our users to understand how they interact with the PI System -Leveraged background in product design and in-depth knowledge of our users and the PI System to transfer to the Design Team and help design products with our users in mind. -Provide technical support in both English and Spanish ### IUEE Instructor @ Intel Corporation Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Albuquerque, New Mexico, Santa Clara, California, Portland, Oregon The goal of intel's ultimate engineer experience was to encourage engineers and prospectives to explore all aspects of engineering and product design that are not usually taught in schools. As an IUEE instructor I worked with engineering students 1-on-1 and in teams to mentor them on design thinking. Over 200 college students attended the course for Engineering, Design, and Communication. As an instructor, I facilitated design teams in their process of redesigning devices within a white space and led brainstorm and ideation sessions. For each class, I managed a supplies list and a budget. ### Supervisor @ Norris University Center Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Evanston, Illinois I created and managed the schedule for student staff which comprised of 80 employees. I successfully handled customer inquiries, complaints, and requests at the student center information desk. As a supervisor, I trained new and returning hires on critical skills and job procedures including the 5 learning outcomes of the job: responsibility, customer service, autonomy, teamwork, and leadership I acted as a liaison between upper management and employees to assure our employee's needs and voices were heard. I managed inventory for the entire student center building. ## Education ### B.S in Manufacuturing and Design Engineering Northwestern University Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cecisilvestre - Portfolio: https://www.cecisilvestre.com - X: https://twitter.com/cecicecii_ux --- Source: https://flows.cv/ceciliasilvestre JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ceciliasilvestre/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30