# Harlan Lewis > Design leader with 15 years experience shipping measurably effective solutions to complex problems. Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/harlanlewis Design leader with 15 years experience enabling teams to solve complex problems. Passionate about shipping innovative, easy-to-use products. Skilled at facilitating human-centered ideation, empowering design practitioners, and fostering cross-disciplinary creation. ## Work Experience ### Product Design Manager @ Notable Jan 2025 – Present ### Independent @ Unknown Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 ### Head of Product Design @ StrongDM Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 Acquired by Delinea. ### Product Designer and Acting Product Manager @ Spotify Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 - Founding designer and acting product manager for a distributed team that built behavioral intelligence tools used by internal multidisciplinary teams to influence positive outcomes throughout the user lifecycle (engagement, conversion, and retention). - Partnered with internal customers to create new behavioral experiment processes and toolchains. Increased behavioral experiments run by 20x per quarter and defined repeatable methods for establishing causality. - Drafted, socialized, and measured product OKRs. Conducted quantitative and qualitative evaluations of design effectiveness. - Redesigned Preact’s SaaS tools (acquired) for Spotify’s internal use cases and adapted interfaces to Spotify’s design language. ### Head of Product Design @ Preact Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area Acquired by Spotify. - Researched, produced, and validated design of ML-driven SaaS products for Customer Success and growth optimization teams. - Created and maintained a React.js component and D3 data visualization library used by all product interfaces. ### Lead Designer @ Legal.io Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto, CA Rapid prototyping and product development for a seed-stage company out of Stanford StartX accelerator seeking product-market fit. ### Lead Product Designer, Design Hiring Manager @ Rafter, Inc. Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 | San Mateo, CA Led end-to-end design of services used by 1 in every 4 college bookstores in the U.S. Designed from concept to ship white-label ecommerce and CRM, in-store point of sale, mobile self-checkout, and inventory management tools. Patent US20130179227. ### UI Developer @ Zazengo Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Santa Cruz, CA Front-end engineer and UI designer, built social media marketing projects for Cosmo, Ogilvy, Walmart, Kodak, and others using RoR, JavaScript, Haml and Sass. ### Web Development and Design @ Freelance - Web Design & Development Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 | Santa Cruz, CA Contract web UI development and design, primarily serving local SMBs. Worked in a range of technical environments, including RoR, Drupal, Wordpress, and various other CMSes. ### UI/UX Designer @ Quiddities Dev, Inc Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 Front-end engineer and web development services, primarily Drupal and Wordpress sites for Seagate, UC Berkeley, and others. ## Education ### University of California, Santa Cruz ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/harlanlewis - Website: http://www.harlanlewis.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/harlanlewis JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/harlanlewis/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05