# Matt Harris

> Senior Product Design Manager @ Datadog

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

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Design Manager @ Datadog
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco, CA

### Product Design Manager @ Datadog
Jan 2022 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco, California, United States
Managing a team of 4 product designers on our Cloud Cost and Revenue Engineering teams who are designing products to help users understand their cloud and internal Datadog spend. Previously managed our graphing product design team who owned our Dashboards, Notebooks, and Monitoring products.

### Senior Product Designer @ Datadog
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

### UX Design Manager @ F5
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Greater Seattle Area
- Manages a team of designers working across the NGINX portfolio including: Application Delivery Controller, Security, Analytics, and APIM Management
- Leads regular cross-functional design critiques to provide feedback and ensure high quality design work
- Leading the design of a new NGINX product suite based on a new system architecture and unified design system

### Senior UX Designer @ F5
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Designed and delivered projects across the NGINX portfolio including Application Delivery Controller, API management and Analytics.
- Lead designer on F5's Design System using an inner-source model across multiple product teams and brands.
- Led large-scale weekly design system sessions for all F5 designers and small-scale design leadership sessions to align on a single design system.
- Designed a new cloud product offering from proof-of-concept to market.

### UX Designer III @ F5
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States

### UX Designer @ New Engen, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Seattle, Washington
- Created and owned the design system and worked with developers to implement it leading to a unified look and feel and reduced duplicative effort
- Led design tooling evaluation, migration from Sketch to Figma, and educational efforts that brought designers, PMs, and engineers up to speed
- Owned the UX process on over 12 projects which included creating user flows, wireframes, low & high fidelity mockups and prototypes based on user and business goals
- Led design reviews with senior leadership to conceptualize future product vision
- Conducted design studios with users, designers, engineers and product managers to help uncover user goals and advance product vision
- Led research efforts including creation of personas, usability testing, and market research

### UX Designer @ GLOBESPINNING
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area
Redesigned the Globespinning mobile app for sharing your travel itineraries with friends for both iOS and Android platforms.

### UX Designer @ UX Designer
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, Washington
In my UX design engagements, I’ve brought my background in consulting to help craft amazing user experiences. My projects have included a variety of UX methods and techniques including: user research, user interviews, persona development, user flows, information architecture, wireframing, visual design, and prototyping. Clients included: Globespinning, Hazel Analytics and Cue Reminder.

### UX Designer @ Hazel Analytics
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Redesigned Hazel Analytics’ data analytics and visualization platform trusted by 250+ global and national brands across 300,000+ locations.

### Software Implementation Consultant @ Apptio
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area
• Gathered user and business requirements from clients and translated user needs into a solution design
• Designed, tested, and documented custom dashboards and reports for clients to show their technology spend across a number of metrics
• Worked with product management and development organizations to channel user feedback and solutions into future releases of the product suite
• Worked with content management to design improved product documentation and templates for clients

### Business Technology Analyst @ Deloitte
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
•  Designed over 50 new reports and dashboards for clients' analytics use cases.
•  Facilitated weekly releases through software development lifecycle tasks such as: user testing, QA to design specifications, and report documentation.
•  Created and delivered a multi-day training course for users

### IT Consultant @ CGI
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Fairfax, VA
Business Development and Product Strategy


## Education
### B.S. in Commerce in Finance, Management
University of Virginia

### User Experience Design Immersive
General Assembly


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matthewzharris
- Portfolio: https://matthewzharris.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-13