# Meredith Johnstone

> Director, Product Design

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/meredithjohnstone

UX Leader with 12+ years experience designing complex B2B and enterprise SaaS products. Not dazzled by shiny tech. Know your users, know their problems, solve their problems. Have a life outside of work. Do no harm.

## Work Experience
### Director of Product Design @ Alation
Jan 2024 – Present | Redwood City, California, United States

### Senior Manager, Product Design @ Alation
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Redwood City, California, United States

### Product Design Lead @ Alation
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Redwood City, California

### Senior Product Designer @ Alation
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### Senior User Experience Designer @ WordStream
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018

### User Experience Designer @ WordStream
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater Boston Area
As a member of the product management & UX team, my main responsibilities are design proposals, wireframing, prototyping, customer feedback collection & interpretation, design specifications for our responsive web application (includes mobile optimization).  We're an agile-scrum development shop, so my designs should look forward to a long term goal, but remain adaptable.

### User Experience Designer @ Intronis MSP Solutions by Barracuda
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
As part of the product management team, I translate product requirements for upcoming releases into design flows and functional specifications.  I help collect product feedback from each branch of the company and directly from customers to create easy-to-use interfaces for our complex web application.

### User Experience Specialist Intern @ Fidelity Investments
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Boston, MA
Contributed to all stages of UX testing:
- Writing recruitment screeners
- Pilot testing
- Moderating usability sessions | live and remote
- Data collection and analysis
- Eye tracking
- Debrief participation

### Research Assistant @ University of Edinburgh
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Worked directly with participants, ran studies on lexical decision making and sentence processing, collected and analysed data, and collaborated to develop future studies.

### User Experience Specialist Intern @ Fidelity Investments
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Usability and User Insight team

### MACLab Research Assistant @ University of Iowa
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
Research assistant studying fine-grain speech perception using Eye-Trackers. Received an academic grant to conduct my own research under my professor and mentor, Dr. Bob McMurray.


## Education
### BA in Psychology
The University of Edinburgh

### Psychology in Art
University of Iowa


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-13