# Michael Kalani Stewman > Design Leader Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelkalanistewman Staff Product Designer with a track record of driving product vision, strategy, and customer experience at scale. Former Principal Product Designer at Oracle, leading enterprise SaaS initiatives from concept through go-to-market. Proven impact delivering $100M+ in net new ARR over 4 years, increasing product adoption, reducing churn, and elevating design culture within complex organizations. Specializes in end-to-end product design, AI-powered experiences, and cross-functional leadership across product, engineering, and GTM teams. Known for translating ambiguity into clear product direction and building systems that scale with both users and business outcomes. ## Work Experience ### Principal Product Designer @ Zscaler Jan 2026 – Present ### Staff Product Designer @ PagerDuty Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Working closely with data science to validate ground breaking designs with customer interviews, partnering with product - and collaborating with our amazing dev team to create memorable customer experiences in incident response, team scheduling and innovating industry leading concepts in generative AI initiatives at PagerDuty. ### Staff Product Designer @ PagerDuty Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 ### Principal Product Designer @ Oracle Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Redwood Shores Creating meaningful experiences for enterprise cloud marketing software. Team collaborator and user champion. Validating customer experience and innovation through data science, user research, creative insight, elegant design and user centered psychology. ### Head of Design / CoFounder @ Santa Cruz Studios Jan 2008 – Jan 2018 Santa Cruz Studios is a consulting group focused on cutting-edge product design. We believe the strongest products are built by strong teams. Integrity, trust, and collaboration are foundational to how we work. From early-stage product definition to enterprise-scale execution, Santa Cruz Studios helps teams ship with confidence, lead with clarity, and build products that endure. Our approach blends design leadership, research-driven insight, and results-oriented delivery. Every engagement is grounded in real user understanding, measurable business outcomes, and scalable technical strategy. ### UX Designer @ Google Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 Lead creative both supporting Google's B2B SaaS model (AdWords) and the Google Partners Program. Involved from concept to creation. UI/UX for Mobile Apps (Google My Business), Product Design (GEM Builder), Email Marketing Ecosystem creation, Direct + Print Marketing, Event site design and creation, Google Store branding and advertising, Iconography, and motion graphics (both vector based animation and after effects). PRODUCT DESIGN HIGHLIGHT - Launched/branded the Google Partners Program - Utilized UX principles/User pathways to define Ad Words b2b email ecosystem - UX/UI of web based platform GEM Builder ### Art Director @ SolutionSet Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 Designer and animator for a leading brand agency. Concepting, design and animation for major clients advertising and web presence including; Dell, CA Lotto, ACER, Coda, RSA and WePC. PRODUCT DESIGN HIGHLIGHT - Designed a web based product, Jive Community Dashboard - Defined user personas to inform UI decisions ### Creative Director @ Ad Infuse Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 Product design. UX/UI, brand identity, marketing collateral across devices, direct marketing and advertising. Branded this company from the ground up to acquisition. PRODUCT DESIGN HIGHLIGHT - Designed and iterated company software UI/UX - Applied UX principles to site launch ### Senior Designer @ Carat Interactive Jan 2003 – Jan 2007 Lead Rich media animator of many award winning online campaigns including; Adidas: impossible is nothing, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s chest and Universal: King Kong. In charge of online advertising for Kodak’s rich media Ad business worldwide. AWARD WINNING CREATIVE ACCOLADES - 1st 3d Ad banner for Kodak - 1st 3d Ad banner for Universal ### Video Editor @ Impact Productions Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 Video editor, post production assistant. ### Senior Designer @ Content X Jan 2001 – Jan 2003 partner, primary flash animator and web developer. ### Designer @ Words & Images Jan 2002 – Jan 2003 Art direction, design, brand strategy, ui design, website design, animation specialist ### Flash Animator @ EON Interactive Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 primary web developer and flash animator. ## Education ### graphic communication and marketing University of California, Santa Cruz ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michaelstewman - Portfolio: https://santacruzstudios.com - Portfolio: https://apsalar.com/ - Portfolio: http://www.12digitmarketing.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/michaelkalanistewman JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/michaelkalanistewman/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13