# Craig Aucutt > Seasoned design leader Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/craigaucutt With over 14 years of experience in design, I have led and contributed to various strategic initiatives across different domains, such as autonomous flight, robotics, additive manufacturing, and more. My core competencies include user research, creative direction, and design management, as well as a passion for solving complex problems with elegant and innovative solutions. ## Work Experience ### Interaction Design @ Intuitive Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Intuitive is the pioneer in surgical robotics. While at Intuitive I’m currently: - Helping craft and ship 0-1 products - Helping speed up lung cancer diagnosis and treatment ### Founding Designer @ Heliux Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Heliux is a all-in-one platform for hardware manufacturing. As Founding Designer I established the initial product design for the platform as well as design system, research practice, marketing materials and more. ### Staff Interaction Designer @ Skydio Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Skydio is a leader in autonomous flight and the second largest drone manufacturer. Serving customers across federal, emergency response, utilities and more. As staff interaction designer, I was responsible for leading design for several key strategic initiatives at the company. ### Director of Design @ Gantri Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Gantri is the world’s first digital design manufacturer. With the use of on demand 3D printing, Gantri helps creators quickly bring their creative ideas to life. As the Director of Design at Gantri I was responsible for leading the brand, creative, and experience design teams. Few key highlights from this experience: - Built & grew the design team from 1 to 7 product designers, creatives, and copywriters. - Established a user research practice for both internal and external software solutions. - Created and scaled the Gantri design system on web. Including the figma library and coded components. - Established the creative and product design process in order to increase quality and speed. - Helped foster a more supportive and collaborative culture across the company. Including meetups, team offsites, project shuffling and more. - Introduced solutions to overhaul the internal software suite in order to improve productivity and efficiency. - Led the released of a full rebrand that impacted all aspects of the business. - Led a redesign of the marketing website alongside 2 product designers and 1 contractor. ### Principal User Experience Designer / Group Design Lead, Design Systems & Platform @ Autodesk Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area As a Principal User Experience Designer for the Autodesk platform team, I was a group team lead responsible for the advancement of the ACS design system that spans across 4 platforms as well as responsible for various platform initiatives. Few key highlights from this experience - Led creation of the unified design system for web and mobile platforms - Helped unify 3+ previous design systems and 7+ companies/products into a single unified solution - Built out the mobile design system from scratch - Evolved the design system’s collaboration model to be more global, agile and inclusive - Lead the platform design team and grew it from 1 to 3 designers - Led various platform design initiatives such as mobile project syncing, navigation and more. - Worked with rest of Autodesk organizations to help unify design systems across the company ### Senior User Experience Designer (via PlanGrid) @ Autodesk Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 I joined Autodesk through the acquisition of PlanGrid in late 2018. As a Senior User Experience Designer at Autodesk, I worked on various products such as Tasks, Progress Tracking, and Markups. Key highlights from this experience: - Helped kickoff unification of a model viewer from two different companies and products. - Led design for a unified markups experience on web and mobile. - Led design for 0-1 product “progress tracking” alongside 1 designer for over 9 months. - Led design for the unified task management solution. - Conducted several rounds of user research in order to better understand our users in the field. - Facilitated a series of design exercises to establish cross team alignment - Facilitating improved collaboration between two cross-cultural, cross-timezone teams. ### Senior Product Designer @ Evernote Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Evernote is the productivity tool to help you "Remember Everything." Initially I worked on the growth team helping scale monetization and engagement efforts across all 5 platforms. Later shifted focus to the core mobile teams where I helped ship various features and improvements to improve retention, engagement and product reach. Features like Evernote Collect, mobile camera, mobile navigation, and many more. ### Senior Designer and Client Relationship Manager @ Punch Group Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Punch is a full service digital agency based in San Francisco, California. As Senior Designer I've lead numerous projects from idealization to release. Several sectors worked in were drones, utility management, datastore management, social media, and messaging. I also lead design and development for various internal applications such as a team management app and data collection tool. As Client relationship manager I was responsible for onboarding new clients and making sure there experience was a smooth one. ### Product Designer @ Edmodo Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area Edmodo is the world's largest K-12 learning community. My role was to help build and scale that image across all platforms and features including web and mobile. As Product Designer I've worked on numerous projects such as the Edmodo parents mobile app, parents web revamp, overhauled teacher & student library, core teacher & student mobile apps, various growth initiatives, and much more. ### Senior Product Designer @ InfoScout Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 InfoScout makes brands better marketers by providing the industry's largest, richest & most actionable source of household purchase information. As Sr. Product Designer my role was to create, manage, & scale the entire user facing image. Including the four main consumer products, ReceiptHog, Shoparoo, ReceiptBin, & Out of Milk. As well as on the B2B side leading design for the client facing analytics platform. Was InfoScout's first design hire. ### Director of Technology @ Veteran Entrepreneurial Transfer, Inc. Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Greater Milwaukee Area VETransfer was the nations first ever business accelerator built specifically for U.S. Military Veteran Entrepreneurs. As Director of Technology I oversaw the entire tech infrastructure, internal software development, and assisted companies in the accelerator program to scale there engineering operations and user facing image. Also while serving as Director of Technology helped startups in our accelerator program on various design needs and frontend development ### Design intern @ Veteran Entrepreneurial Transfer, Inc. Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin As design intern I helped build out marketing site, collateral, and assisted companies in the accelerator on various design needs. ## Education ### BFA in Visual Communication Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design ### Minor in Advertising Marquette University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/caidentity - Dribbble: http://dribbble.com/caidentity --- Source: https://flows.cv/craigaucutt JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/craigaucutt/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13