# Kyle Frost

> Full-stack product design leader. Writing on outdoor culture at Here & There.

Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kylefrost

I'm a product designer who works across the entire stack — from pixels and prototypes to code and strategy. Over the past 10+ years, I've often the first or sole designer at early-stage startups, building products from scratch and scaling them through major growth milestones.

I've spent years building a skillset that allows me to be equally comfortable pushing pixels in Figma, building AI workflows, designing programmatic SEO strategies, writing PRDs, prototyping in production, or pushing PRs to fix bugs.

Most recently I led design at PermitFlow, an AI-powered construction permitting platform. I joined as the first design hire and helped scale the company through a $55M Series B. My work lived at the intersection of AI and complex workflows — designing human-in-the-loop systems, building pipelines that turn messy municipal data into structured insights, and shaping the company's agentic AI strategy.

I also write Here & There, a weekly newsletter on outdoor culture and the business of adventure, and build side projects like PackTrak (full-stack gear tracking app) and Sift (AI-powered bookmark organizer).

## Work Experience
### Founder @ Here & There
Jan 2020 – Present | Boulder, CO
Here & There focuses on thoughtful writing about the culture of travel and the outdoors, with a mix of personal experience, tech and business insights, industry perspectives, and plain old curiosity.

### Lead Product Designer @ PermitFlow
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026
• First design hire; owned product design and significant PM responsibilities from pre-Series A through $55M Series B, supporting growth to 75+ employees
• Designed AI-first workflows for municipal research, human-in-the-loop review, and interconnected permit requirement data powering customer-facing and internal tools
• Built an AI pipeline transforming municipal comments into structured customer insights, reducing manual research effort and improving output consistency
• Developed the company’s agentic AI strategy for permit research, shaping how LLMs are applied to complex regulatory data
• Contributed directly to the front-end codebase (React, TypeScript, Tailwind) alongside engineering

### Staff Writer @ Mountain Gazette
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025

### Lead Product Designer @ Product Hunt
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
• Led design for product discovery, UGC surfaces, onboarding, and retention across web and mobile
• Redesigned Product Hubs, increasing click-through rate by 32%; rebuilt tagging taxonomy driving significant organic growth
• Defined experimentation strategy and success metrics with product and engineering leadership

### Product Designer @ The Outbound Collective, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Remote
• Sole designer owning end-to-end product across web, iOS, and Android
• Redesigned the iOS app, improving App Store rating from 3.5 to 4.8 stars and earning 2x features
• Built a programmatic SEO strategy that increased organic traffic by 60%; contributed to front-end codebase

### Senior Product Designer @ Borrowed & Blue (acquired by Zola)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Boulder
• Led full platform redesign; reworked location data model enabling nationwide expansion and built design system that improved page load performance by 3x
• Designed a photo browsing experience that increased time on site by 25%
• Oversaw an architecture shift from 'regional' search to geo-located search

### Senior Product Designer @ SmartShoot
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Remote
• Designed a B2B asset acquisition system delivering over 7,000 photography and video jobs per month
• Defined product strategy and roadmaps with C-suite
• Developed new delivery experience to reduce errors for high-volume partners like UberEats and Yelp.

### Product Designer @ Bloodhound
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
Product designer for web, iOS, and Android. Worked directly with CEO and Head of Engineering on product strategy.

### UX Designer @ Digitaria, a JWT Company
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
UX projects for clients including Ironman, Royal Caribbean, Intrawest, Petco, and Disney.

### Web Developer @ UC San Diego
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Designed and built departmental websites, led mobile optimization of campus web properties.

### Interactive Associate @ Thrower Ventures
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009


## Education
### BS in Cognitive Science - Human Computer Interaction
UC San Diego


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kylefrost
- Portfolio: http://www.kylefrost.com
- Portfolio: http://www.instagram.com/kylefrost
- Portfolio: http://www.kylefrost.com/here-and-there

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Last updated: 2026-03-31