# David Thorn

> Staff Product Designer @ dbt Labs

Location: El Cerrito, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/davidthorn

Product designer that enjoys designing systems,
not just design systems.

www.davidthorn.co

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer @ dbt Labs
Jan 2024 – Present
- Designed cost management and optimization workflows to provide monitoring and remediation capabilities.
- Built out AI agents across multiple products.
- Built out advanced CI comparison workflow to better identify change and impact ahead of production releases on jobs.
- Led product facing brand refresh with new accessible color system supporting light and dark themes and a new typography stack including several VS Code themes and CLI logs.
- Shepherded design system as a top maintainer across the org.

### Senior Product Designer @ dbt Labs
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
- Led design for all scheduling and orchestration products. Implemented features for slimmer CI, repository caching, and observability.
- Designed enterprise authentication and security workflows, including provider migrations, IP restrictions, Privatelink, and MFA.

### Senior Product Designer @ Sisu
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
- Designed a metric catalog for better visibility into data, improved dimension management with filter logic for input, and designed full integration workflows for streamlining the import of data. 
- Contributed to new sharing workflows, quicker time-to-value setup for analyses, and an updated user and organization settings workflow that allowed for better role based access and controls for enterprise customers.
- Revamped icon library.
- Committed to the codebase to ensure a high bar of customer experience as well as increase velocity of development.
- Implemented new documentation site to support customer-facing knowledge base and release notes, with a developer-facing, auto-generated API site.

### Product & Operations Manager @ Airhouse
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Led product and operations teams to support a web app for all-in-one ecommerce fulfillment for B2B2C.
- Onboarded and trained fulfillment partner network.
- Developed onboarding and customer success flows with supporting documentation.

### Senior Product Designer @ Airhouse
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
- Founding designer for suite of e-commerce fulfillment application products dealing with inventory, inbound and outbound orders, billing, notifications, and analytics.

### Founding Product Designer @ Compute Software
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View
- End-to-end design of a SaaS cloud scaling web-app with supporting documentation site.
- Assisted developer in implementing designs from mockups in CSS and Clojure, including debugging and testing of components and user flows.
- Performed user tests and collected user feedback on product experience and features.

### Product Designer @ Genability
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017
- Redesigned and developed a suite of products for solar, EV, battery storage, and utility data consumption. Included a B2B energy rate explorer, quote tools with generated PDF reporting, developer documentation, and supporting white label demonstration apps.
- Supported products for 8/10 top solar developers in the US.

### Visual Designer @ Greenstart
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, CA
- Designed websites and mobile applications for start-ups inside a VC/design firm.
- Assisted with user research and business strategy presentations.

### Marketing Intern @ ECC
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Burlingame, California, United States
Designed graphics for construction proposals and assembled materials for use.

### Marketing Assistant @ Bureau Veritas Group
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | Pleasanton, California, United States
Oversaw assembly of marketing collateral, managed inventory, and assisted with shipping and delivery.


## Education
### Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Graphic Design
California College of the Arts
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/david-thorn
- Portfolio: https://davidthorn.co/

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Last updated: 2026-03-25