# Durojaiye S. > Senior Product Designer | Enterprise SaaS | Regulated Systems | Health Tech Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/durojaiyes I design enterprise SaaS products that must meet regulatory requirements, integrate with legacy tech stacks, and operate in environments with high leadership visibility. I am drawn to complex, regulated environments because clarity determines whether the system works. Design cannot rely on UI alone, and it has to hold up under compliance and operational constraints. In fintech and enterprise SaaS, I have shipped mobile components used by 9 million people, reduced annual costs by $300K through a two-week redesign, and increased engagement by 42% after redirecting product direction to protect essential workflows. I have led product areas across hotel expense management, corporate mobile banking, onboarding, employee engagement, and learning. That usually means navigating competing priorities between product, engineering, compliance, and operations, and making decisions that solve problems while allowing systems to scale and evolve. I prioritize early alignment and work closely with product and engineering to shape direction before decisions compound. Outside of shipping products, I teach and mentor designers. Staying engaged with how the industry evolves and explaining how systems work and where they break down strengthens my approach to the work. Lately, I have been drawn to health tech. It carries the same complexity and regulatory weight as fintech, but with more direct human impact. I am interested in applying system-level thinking to products that not only improve efficiency but also genuinely affect people’s lives. ## Work Experience ### Undergraduate UX Instructor @ San Francisco State University Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States • Teach undergraduate UX, covering research, accessibility, and stakeholder communication, improving student portfolio quality and design reasoning. • Coach students on applying the design process and collaboration skills in professional settings. ### Lead Product Designer @ SmartNews Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Palo Alto, California, United States • Worked directly with product leadership and SVP to shape direction for 0→1 product development in a fast-moving startup environment. • Delivered 0→1 product features through high-fidelity design sprints, standardizing components, and resolving gaps across onboarding and editorial experiences to support launch readiness. • Improved team execution during rapid 1–4 day cycles by identifying process gaps and aligning design and product decisions earlier. ### Product Designer III @ Workday Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area • Owned mobile product areas across hotel expense management, onboarding, and learning within a 9M-user enterprise platform, defining workflows across regulatory, operational, and product constraints. • Improved employee survey adoption by identifying risk scenarios and shifting from a blocking prompt to a persistent model within legal constraints, increasing completion to 10% (42% above SaaS benchmark). • Reduced redesign cycles across teams by defining earlier cross-team alignment points and addressing siloed workflows and conflicting priorities. • Led the re-architecture of expense submission from manual entry to guided conversational steps within system constraints, improving task success by 14.2% in usability testing. • Scaled mobile patterns across 9M users by introducing new components and defining messaging and localization standards used across teams. ### Adjunct Instructor @ Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (RMCAD) Jan 2020 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area • Developed and delivered design curriculum grounded in universal design principles, preparing students to apply inclusive thinking in professional product environments. • Introduced inclusive design methods to guide human-centered workflows and strengthen how students approached problem framing and decision-making. ### Experience Designer @ First Republic Bank Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area • Owned corporate mobile banking and MFA experiences representing ~50% of bank revenue, operating across mobile and web in a highly regulated financial environment. • Defined a new MFA onboarding approach by removing dependency on physical tokens, preventing a high-risk launch, and reducing ~$300K in annual replacement costs. • Increased corporate mobile adoption by 15% by restructuring post-login workflows, improving visibility, and consolidating fragmented approval processes. • Stabilized product delivery during team turnover by supporting contractor hiring, onboarding designers, and establishing workflows and cross-team alignment processes. ### Cartographer @ Zoox Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Menlo Park, California • Built and verified mapping data to support safe autonomous vehicle navigation. • Validated map accuracy against real-world conditions to ensure compliance with traffic laws. ### Designer @ Moving Brands Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area • Designed an icon system for Fox Studios to improve employee wayfinding. • Created visual assets to support employees' onboarding experiences. ### User Research Assistant @ Design Working Group Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area • Developed methods to measure student and community impact through surveys and interviews. • Synthesized research findings and presented insights to evaluate program effectiveness. ### Designer @ CSU Entertainment Alliance Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area • Designed print and digital assets reflecting diverse campus audiences. • Developed campaign messaging and contributed to social content to increase event engagement. ### Designer @ Design Working Group Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area • Created print and digital design assets for campus clients across multiple disciplines. • Conducted user research to inform and validate design decisions. ### Visual Designer @ Our Stories Club, City College of San Francisco Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area • Designed book covers and typeset stories in collaboration with student authors. • Managed print production to ensure quality and cost-effective delivery. ## Education ### Visual Communications in Design San Francisco State University Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 ### User Experience and User Interface City College of San Francisco Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/durojaiyesalaam --- Source: https://flows.cv/durojaiyes JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/durojaiyes/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-07