# Dannielle D. > Head of design Location: Redwood City, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/dannielle Passionate about building products and delivering value to the customers and stakeholders, I’m a self starter with 12+ years of delivering AI-based B2B SAAS products across verticals. Throughout my career, I have worked closely with C-level management teams to address critical strategic challenges, driven by customer insights, from launching and growing new ventures to navigating complexity and driving operational product design excellence at scale. In my spare time, I mentor other design leaders for startups. Reach out if you need to chat. :) Email: dannielledandesign@gmail.com ## Work Experience ### Head of Design @ Stealth AI Startup Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States Designing AI Agents for humans ### Founder @ Nomad Creatives Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Nomad Creatives builds strategic partnership with the next generation products and startups • Branding strategy and marketing website redesign for EKO Sustainable Products • Product design and research for AI startup • Sales development at Eagle Doc • Coaching for design leaders in startups ### Founding designer & design lead @ Orby AI Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Acquired by Uniphore in 2025, Orby AI is a platform designed to bring the auto-complete experience to everyday business users and automate all mundane tasks. It is dedicated to transforming workflows through the power of generative AI. Our mission is to revolutionize the way businesses operate by automating and streamlining processes, ultimately enhancing productivity and unlocking new opportunities for growth. Joined as a founding designer, my responsibilities include: • Crafting Product Design vision for help raising $30 million series A • Hiring for the best product and design team (scaled the design team from 1 to 4 designers in a player-coach role, hired 2 PMs) • Process improvement to ensure quality and speed of the design team's output • Product design strategy and positioning partnering up with product management functions • Stakeholder management • UX research(Qual+Quan), partnership with Sales and Customer Success for customer interview access to make sure design meets the needs of customers in pipeline to drive sales • Content design in product • Own documentation and ensure customers has proper product education and access to documentation in partnership with customer success, drove a decentralized process for release maintenance • Marketing design & strategic positioning / website implementations with CMS & partnership with marketing functions • The company was acquired in 2025 with 214M in acquisition value ### Senior Product Designer @ PayPal Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 Leading design for multiple features for the PayPal Commerce Platform Provide thought leadership to bring value to the user and 35 million active merchants Partner closely with product leadership, engineers, content designers, data analysts to deliver high quality experiences for business users Mentor and coach junior designers, coordinate between internal stakeholders and design resources to meet product timelines Develop UX framework and design patterns to ensure platform UX consistency Create inclusive team activities to boost morale for remote working environment ### Director of Design @ Armorblox Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Cupertino, California, United States Acquired by Cisco in 2023, Armorblox is an AI-based B2B cybersecurity platform that uses natural language processing to detect and prevent inbound threats and outbound data loss, where I was the founding design hire. My contributions include: - Drive and lead the vision for our User Experience in for all products on the web and mobile platforms - Co-develop the product strategy with product leadership through identifying opportunities to invest in for long term growth and innovation - Project management: driving implementation from design by breaking down into Jira epics and stories, coordinated between engineering and business to meet project delivery deadlines - Establish operational rigor for design: using principles, frameworks, design component library, qualitative and quantitative insights to guide team for continuous growth of the function and the product. - Stakeholder management: worked directly with C-level leaders to define the product requirements, product design and marketing design deliverables - Marketing design using Storyblok components and marketing website deployment, managing design and development team for marketing design deliverables ### Senior Product Designer @ Medallia Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, California Medallia (IPOed in 2019) is the pioneer and market leader in Experience Management in the B2B space. I designed for 5 products under the Medallia Experience Cloud, to support the self-service initiative for CX (Customer Experience) admins, this initiative was critical for making the product offerings scalable through the company IPO process. - Led design from high-level concepts to delivery - Conducted UX research interviews to take user feedback back to design iterations - Supported the design system team with component design - Interviewing and recruiting for designers ### Senior UX Designer @ SVB Financial Group Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, California, United States Silicon Valley Bank is a high-tech commercial bank that helps funding startups. I was the 1st full-time design hire and an advocate for design thinking and agile development, helped the bank transitioned through the waterfall development process to agile development practices. - Redesigned the next-generation online banking platform - Design owner of the homepage ### UX Designer II @ Microsoft Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 | Redmond, WA Devisions: Microsoft Cloud Business and Microsoft Startup Business Group Products: Shipped Office Mix, Class Dashboard (turned into Microsoft Classroom), Student Information Sync in the education-tech space; Power BI on mobile, MFX, Data Steward, BIBD, Big Data etc. in business intelligence space. Design process: Conduct qualitative and quantitative UX research (we did not have researchers); Write user stories; Stakeholder engagement with VP level; Competitor studies; Creative UX solutions; Driving design according to customer data and insight from research (focus groups, surveys, eye-tracking, interviews, field studies). Project Management: Icon owner for the SQL org and managed icons for all product lines under the SQL server organization; Coordinate with product owners for delivery requirements and timeline and work with design agency from concepts to delivery; Manage cost under PO; Interviewing and recruiting for designers. ### Interface Design Intern @ Involution Studios Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Greater Boston Area GoInvo is a digital design studio in Boston. I helped design pixel-perfect web-based software interface for clients like PTC (Pro-Engineering), Affinnova and Health Dialog. ## Education ### Product Management University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business ### Executive Education Stanford University ### Master of Fine Arts in Computer Graphic Design focusing on Interactive Design Rochester Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dannielledan --- Source: https://flows.cv/dannielle JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dannielle/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13