# Clayton H. > Stealth Mode Start-Up Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/claytonh Principal Product Designer with deep expertise in AI-powered enterprise software, supply chain operations, and government technology. Proven track record designing complex data-driven tools for Fortune 1000 companies, major defense contractors, and sovereign governments across the U.S., Middle East, and Europe. Equally comfortable leading design strategy and getting hands-on with research, prototyping, and cross-functional execution at early-stage companies. I solve business problems with software design, user research and design operations management. I have 20 years of experience in Finance, Media, Consumer Banking, Aerospace Manufacturing, Travel, Hospitality, Pharma, Beverage, Retail, Education, Oil & Gas and Government. My portfolio includes a broad mix of web-based SAAS, mobile applications, technology demonstrators and strategic assessments for Fortune 1000 companies as well as concept-stage start-ups and everything in between. ## Work Experience ### Founding Designer @ Stealth AI Startup Jan 2026 – Present ### Product Designer @ Brain Co. Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Product Design Consultant @ UX/UI Designer Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Serving as a UX Lead or Director level practitioner for product teams, agencies and other direct client engagements. ### Associate User Experience Director @ VSA Partners Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior UX Generalist @ Schlumberg Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Houston, Texas, United States Performing extensive on-going field research with equipment operators and working iteratively with software developers in a strict agile process. Data Visualization design for well operations reporting views against field IOT gateway. ### UX Principal Designer & Researcher (Consultant) @ Consultant Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area Lead design and research teams for multiple client engagements. Notable projects include research and design around customer acquisition funnels for Worldpay's global sites, a technology pilot for Consolidated Edison, and extensive work on PNC Bank's commercial tools including check deposit workflows. ### User Experience Director (Contract) @ Huge. Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Brooklyn, New York, United States Director of a design team for multiple UX projects at United Technologies Corporation. Projects included a UI Design System Library, Manufacturing Productivity Application Suite for manufacturing/repair supply chain for improving on-time customer delivery including a vendor interface, management dashboard and end customer web portal. ### Principal Product Designer @ TOMORROW. Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | New York, New York, United States Served as an initial product designer or lead creative for a start-up incubator. Primary product designer for several data-science oriented companies: Decibel 85 (Sentiment Analysis for Building Development Projects), Bomoda Inc. (Social Media Analysis of Luxury Products on Chinese platforms), Lumos Networks. ### User Experience Lead @ SYPartners Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 User Experience Lead Architect for an subscription-based online learning tool. ### Director of User Experience @ M&C Saatchi Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 The major feather in my cap was working on a big service and program design concept for GE to improve the health of the employees. I authored pitch materials and client-facing presentations, produced UX artifacts such as wireframes, userflows, functional specifications and sitemaps, and directed visual designers in the execution of interaction concepts. ### User Experience Lead @ Consultant / Freelance Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | New York, NY I worked as a freelance UX designer and information architect to create UX artifacts including wireframes, site-maps and functional specifications, presentation materials in both an agency setting and direct consulting role. I managed the UXID and functional analysis team members during the creation of Ernst & Young's next-gen tax productivity tool. The web-based product is intended to replace the use of MS Excel in the production of tax forms for hedge fund investors. I served as Data Architect and UX Lead on a customer retention tool for the New York Times that exposes archive content through custom information graphics. Managed digital strategy and UXID concepts for Smirnoff’s social customer loyalty program and points system. Launched a code redemption tool now used in 50 markets. Functional Analyst and Strategy on Clinique Mobile Roadmap for 2012. Served as UX Lead on an airline reservation system concept that would work equally well for web and mobile/ tablet for Emirates Airlines. ### Sr. Product Manager @ NBCUniversal, Inc. Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 I collaborated with NBC ad sales team members to document business and delivery requirements for custom advertising products. I would then manage the UX and design production to prepare assets for production during sprint cycles. During launches, I would monitor site performance for the general campaign and well as analytics on the custom pieces and lead client calls to interpret the numbers. I was especially lucky to get to work directly with our development teams and their managers to get features implemented. For the first time, I gained a very deep appreciation for how software features are implemented in on a technical level which made me a significantly better product manager. Being able to accurately estimate LOE and time to produce enabled me to prioritize the roadmap for our business development team members. ### User Experience & Information Architect @ Freelance Jan 2001 – Jan 2010 I worked as a freelance UX designer and information architect to create UX artifacts including wireframes, site-maps and functional specifications, presentation materials in both an agency setting and direct consulting role for various media companies, consumer product companies, financial services institutions. In general, I served as a technical liaison to third party developers during implementation of these projects. Significantly, I did on-going contract work for a web-based educational reporting tool, Schoonet. During this time I lead an interaction re-design effort to reframe the product with better design patterns. I managed a team of designers and information architects in the creation of a rich prototype with AJAX capabilities and an updated look and feel. Provided expertise and design revisions to the User Experience Director. Client(s): Jetblue, ESPN, Hewlitt-Packard, Ann Taylor Stores, Lehman Brothers, Deutsche Bank, Stem-V, Sears, Cedars-Mt. Sinai, Roche ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Economics University of Chicago ### Back-End Web Development General Assembly ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/clayton-harper-ux --- Source: https://flows.cv/claytonh JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/claytonh/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13