# Kevin Schenk > UX Designer @ AWS Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kevinschenk Contact info and recent work — https://kevinschenk.io ## Work Experience ### UX Designer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States Developer experience @ AWS Builder Center ### UX Designer - Amazon Security @ Amazon Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · Worked with SPEAR Wireless Security operations team on a UX redesign of a security evaluation management service for Amazon datacenters and other secure facilities. · Researched, designed, and developed a renewed UI for the service, leading to an improved and expedited evaluations management workflow ### UX Designer - Retail Music Experience @ Amazon Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 • Owned workstream to improve official artist merch presence, improving search time 15% and click accuracy 48% for relevant flows in the retail mobile app through product card UI improvements. • Partnered with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure cohesive multichannel design, including PM, data science, content design, and UXR. • Planned, executed, and analyzed user research to produce user insights that informed a data-driven design process. ### UX Designer - AWS Cryptography @ Amazon Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 • Led UX design for AWS Secrets Manager and associated cloud cybersecurity services shipping 2 major feature releases with UX improvements helping to streamline workflows resulting in positive web feedback +7% and primary feature usage +26%. • Lead UX design for T1 service AWS Payment Cryptography, serving 300+ payments, fintech, and finance customers at launch. • Leveraged product analytics to define UX success metrics, producing data-driven insights and data visualizations that influenced project/issue prioritization. • Conducted qualitative & quantitative research with enterprise-level B2B clients, gaining insights to establish engineering personas, use cases, and journeys. • Produced interactive prototype flows and specifications. Aligned with and extended design system patterns to improve inter-service cohesion. ### UI/UX Designer @ Rhombus Power Inc. Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States • Lead UX/UI design direction for federal government AI/ML-supported SaaS products, including geospatial flight routing dashboards and asset management systems. • Lead a collaborative team of between 1 and 2 other designers, reporting to head of Product Development. Lead critiques, planning sessions, and retrospectives. • Facilitated requirements collection, prioritization, and collaborative design reviews with engineering, product management, and data science. • Established a design system and produced responsive components, tokens, iconography, layouts, data visualization styles, and documentation. • Conducted on-site user research directly with B2B client analysts and officers. ### UX & Product Designer @ Kevin Schenk Design Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 Worked with various startups and agency clients to create UI designs and strategize UX for mobile and web-based products. ### Product Designer @ Branded AF Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 • Designed a cross-platform social network w/ design system and a developer collaboration SaaS platform. • Managed projects, presented deliverables, and collaborated with clients, engineers & other designers. ### Product Designer @ Aperon Corporation Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Remote • Designed an iOS application for inventory input and management. • Redesigned a React-based internal appraisal webapp for desktop and mobile screen sizes. • Collaborated with the product manager, CEO, COO, and senior grader to ensure effective facilitation of scheduling, communication, and data entry activities. • Conducted/analyzed qualitative research and defined user flows. ### Product Designer/Consultant @ Topflight Apps Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Remote • Designed a mobile application for monitoring and improving health benefits usage. • Conducted UX & market research to define user journeys and anticipated process flows. • Defined usability testing objectives & research plan. • Collaborated with client stakeholders, managers, developers, and designers. ### User Experience Designer @ Omni Integration Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 • Designed & documented the UI of a mobile payments Android app for client Elo Touch Solutions to demo financial software solution features. • Defined and facilitated usage in B2B sales, testing, & real-world environments. • Collaborated with client stakeholders, management, & developers. • Redesigned the Omni Integration website. • Defined use cases, user flows, & service information structure. ### Product Designer @ SideHustle App Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Remote • Redesigned a localized referral promotion application on iOS & Android. • Conducted usability testing to verify task efficiency and overall user-friendliness. • Defined user flows, journeys, and engagement cycles. • Conducted competitive analysis and assessed market fit. • Collaborated with the founder, management, and development team. ### Web/Product Designer @ ssuse Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Remote • Designed wireframes & conducted UXR/competitive analysis for a service e-gifting website. ### Web/Graphic Designer @ Santa Clara County Public Health Department Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Jose • Strategized and designed web pages and content for online PHD data services. • Defined audiences, user personas, and process flows. • Produced page mockups, comps, style guides, graphics, and other deliverables. • Conducted mixed-method user research to recommend feasible UX improvements to the PHD Health Data Portal. • Collaborated with a wide range of job functions to organize and implement web initiatives. ### Student Intern @ Santa Clara County Public Health Department Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Jose ### Web Designer/Developer @ Unknown Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 • Designed & built websites for clients on WordPress and Wix platforms. • Monitored usage metrics & conducted usability testing to made improvements. • Optimized for accessibility, usability, and SEO. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Communication, User Experience/User Interface California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kevin-schenk - Portfolio: https://kevinschenk.io --- Source: https://flows.cv/kevinschenk JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kevinschenk/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13