# Jessica Allen

> Principal Product Designer at Okta, Inc.

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jessicaallen

Product Designer with over 19 years experience making interfaces that surpass user’s expectations.

Lover of capacity building – thrives at using design to bring people together in order to foster and drive innovation.

## Work Experience
### Principal Product Designer @ Okta
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
· Vision and roadmap planning in the Access Mangement team
· Driver of passwordless, phishing resistant authenticator adoption
· Lead designer for Authentication Method Chains https://help.okta.com/oie/en-us/content/topics/identity-engine/policies/authentication-method-chain.htm (GA 2025)

### Staff Product Designer @ Okta
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
· Product Designer of Okta administrator features, such as the Access Testing Tool, Sharable Authentication Policies, Import Jobs, and the Identity Engine platform upgrade experience.

### Senior Product Designer @ Fastly
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
· Leading interface design for Fastly’s UIs (the core control panel and WAF) by influencing and motivating engineering and product teams to achieve a design vision 
· Working with product managers and engineers to research, define, and deliver features while establishing a metrics system to test and measure their success
· Creating and expanding a user-centered product design culture anchored in usability feedback
· Collaborating with brand and product marketing to deliver consistent experiences to customers across multiple platforms

### Product Designer @ Fastly
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Product Designer @ Twitter
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
· Designed new features for the business users of Twitter
· Improved Promoted Tweet relevance by enabling more fine tuned audience targeting for advertisers
· Built dashboards for measuring the impact of campaigns
· Created shareable front-end components and a style guide to ensure a consistent interface throughout the user experience

### UX Designer @ Engine Yard
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, CA
· Designed and developed new features, including the Add-ons UI, the NextGen UI, and the dashboard layout of Engine Yard Cloud
· Implemented marketing projects such as building the responsive Distill conference website
· Refactored and improved existing code, as well as created and maintained style guides

### Designer @ Engine Yard
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
· Revamped and redesigned the marketing website
· Created materials for conferences and presentations

### Web Developer @ Freelance
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011
· Provided web development, graphic design, and technical support for advertising agencies and independent clients
· Coded websites on content management systems, installed new features, updated software, and created tailored online stores for kiteboarding enthusiasts and pizza lovers alike

### Senior Web Developer @ Joots, Inc.
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008
· Website design, coding, and deployment on content management systems
· Corporate identity and print collateral design
· Client training and support
· Responsible for administrating website, application, database, and email activity for over 30 clients on Linux web server.


## Education
### Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts in Computer Science, Art, Digital Media
UC San Diego


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jessicaspacekat
- Portfolio: https://www.fastly.com/blog/jessica-allen

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Last updated: 2026-04-13