# Nate Kennelly > Senior UX Designer @ Candescent Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/natekennelly Portfolio: https://natedotio.framer.website/ I’m a UX designer with 7+ years of experience, passionate about creating intuitive, user-centered experiences that drive business impact. Having worked in both enterprise and startup environments, I bring a unique perspective on designing for scale, innovation, and agility. A core strength of mine is talking to customers—I love engaging with users to uncover pain points, validate ideas, and ensure that design decisions align with real-world needs. Whether through generative research, usability testing, or ongoing feedback loops, I thrive on translating customer insights into actionable design solutions. At Moody’s, I worked in the fintech space, focusing on innovation-driven UX to explore and develop new financial solutions. Later, at AppOmni, I led multiple high-impact projects, including launching the Shadow IT / SaaS Discovery feature from inception and owning the UX for Operationalization and Automation features. I also created and led the UX Ops function, improving design efficiency and collaboration across teams. Beyond designing intuitive interfaces, I’m passionate about shaping UX strategy, building scalable design systems, and advocating for the user at every stage of the product lifecycle. I thrive in cross-functional environments, working closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to bring user-focused solutions to life. Let’s connect and talk UX, security, SaaS, fintech, or anything in between! ## Work Experience ### Senior UX Designer @ Candescent Jan 2025 – Present ### Senior UX Designer & Head of Design Ops @ AppOmni Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 • Owned the end-to-end UX for Operationalization and Automation features, designing seamless, scalable workflows that streamlined security operations and improved user efficiency. • Led the inception of the Shadow IT / SaaS Discovery feature, conducting generative research, defining user needs, and coauthoring the product roadmap. Partnering with Product leadership, drove every phase of this feature development through ideation and high-fidelity design. • Created and led the UX Ops function, implementing processes that improved design efficiency, UX/UI cohesion, and collaboration with Engineering and Product counterparts. • Contributed to the creation of a new Design System, driving the creation of new components and patterns to ensure UI consistency and scalability across the product. • Led multiple UX research initiatives, including generative research, usability testing, and establishment of a Design Partner initiative for regular customer engagement. • Maintained continuous feedback loops by regularly interface with customers and prospects, ensuring design decisions were informed by real-world use cases and evolving user needs. ### Product Manager & UI/UX Designer @ Moody's Corporation Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States • Worked on the Internal Innovation Center team of 6 to rapidly ideate, design, and develop custom solutions for Moody’s business stakeholders. Most recent tool saved an estimated 15,000 hours and $900,000 annually. • Worked as lead UX/UI Designer to wireframe, prototype, test and iterate 7 different products from scratch. • Acted as Product Manager selecting business needs for new product development and defining product strategies for existing operationalized products. • Established enterprise-wide Design Community for best practice standardization and knowledge sharing. • Led program to completely revamp the corporation’s intranet, including the assessment and procurement of the new platform software as well as coordination of 30+ department stakeholders. • Conducted the assessment and RFP process of 6 different Search Engine SaaS providers for use in the corporate intranet. • Active participant in the LGBTQ+ Employee Business Group. ### Senior Change Manager @ Moody's Corporation Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States • Responsible for the buildout and dissemination of end user documentation and communication to facilitate the large-scale change or deployment of Shared Services (IT, HR, Finance, etc.) technologies. • Successfully led the change management of 7 end-user product launches, both homegrown and SaaS-based. • Generated written communications, end user guides, and training documentation to ensure smooth knowledge transfer for users. • Conducted dozens of live trainings and Q&A sessions with end users in tandem with product launch. • Facilitated communications and program updates to executive stakeholders to ensure maximum awareness. ### Product Manager & User Experience Manager @ Moody's Corporation Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area • Accountable for the end-to-end experience for all user-facing IT services. • Managed the procurement, enterprise-wide deployment, and ongoing product lifecycle of 10+ SaaS Collaboration Tools like Slack, Zoom, Github and Office 365 to 13,000+ employees. • Responsible for market research, trend analysis, and piloting of all end user software and hardware to understand best-in-class products aligned with company needs • Led exploration and assessment of best-in-class productivity and collaboration tools in the market. • Socialized IT offerings to maximize their adoption and effective usage by leading 11 different monthly communications and feedback forums. • Led IT Relationship Management function to field all customer feedback and expectations as well as provide visibility on IT initiatives. • Established enterprise-wide network of 100+ business "champions" to drive adoption of enterprise tools. ### Program Manager @ Moody's Corporation Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York • Managed the procurement, rollout and ongoing product lifecycle of internal collaboration tools, like Slack, across the entire enterprise population of 12,000+. • Led the migration of the entire Moodys.com server footprint from on-prem to AWS Cloud. • Coordinated the delivery of production-ready 150+ server environment to upgrade Moodys.com. • Implemented, maintained, and matured 5 enterprise SaaS applications. • Spearheaded relationship management between IT/Cybersecurity and Moody’s Analytics. ### IT Consultant @ FDM Group Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area • Oversaw all IT Infrastructure-related programs for Moody’s Analytics. Projects included the build of the 100+ server production environment for Moodys.com as well as the subsequent migration of the entire Moodys.com infrastructure footprint to AWS Cloud. • Supported Infrastructure Operations and Moody's Analytics DevOps daily activities. • Acted as primary point of escalation for IT issues, removing BAU blockers and improving operational processes. ## Education ### UX / UI Design Certification in Behavioral Sciences Columbia Engineering ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Economics, History Boston College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nate-kennelly - Portfolio: https://natedotio.framer.website/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/natekennelly JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/natekennelly/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13