# Preston McPeak > Product Design Lead | Open to Opportunities | prestonmcpeak.com Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/prestonmcpeak Senior Product Design Lead with over 8 years of experience and a strong foundation in interaction and user-centered design. For the past 6 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers, I worked with the Tax Innovation and Products & Technology teams to deliver practical, user-focused solutions. I am seeking a role where I can apply strategic thinking, champion user-first design, and help mentor the next generation of designers. ## Work Experience ### UX Portfolio Lead - PwC Tax @ PwC Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Led UX strategy across the Corporate Tax and Specialty Tax portfolios (6+ products), partnering with stakeholders to evaluate product workflows, align experiences, and prioritize design initiatives. ### Lead Product Designer – Sightline Core Platform @ PwC Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Directed the creation of a UX interaction playbook for AG Grid adoption, empowering designers with reusable patterns to improve consistency and reduce design iteration cycles, accelerating delivery across 15 PwC Tax products. Coordinated collaboration with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to translate business and technical requirements into user flows and design tasks, contributing to the migration of 80k legal entity records and the creation of a single source of truth for entity data across PwC Tax. Facilitated weekly design critiques for a team of 10 designers, delivering targeted feedback to enhance usability, visual consistency, and alignment with product goals. ### Senior Product Designer - Sightline Deliverables & Tasks @ PwC Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Designed the e-file system mapping feature, allowing tax engagements to accurately report IRS statuses to clients and reduce the risk of tax filing errors ahead of statutory deadlines, resulting in a 14% increase in usage from FY23 to FY24. Pioneered the transition to AG Grid for a tax project management platform, reducing load times to 2 seconds for engagements with 8,000+ deliverables and adding features such as column customization, data grouping, filtering, and tagging. Improved Sightline task creation flows to support bulk processes, reducing engagement setup time by 10% for tax preparers and managers. Added support for new deliverable types, enabling Sightline to handle excise tax, 
sales & use tax, and consulting tax, broadening support for a $100M book of business. ### Product Designer - Products & Technology @ PwC Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Conducted usability audits, presented recommendations to stakeholders, 
and implemented redesigns by translating wireframes into high-fidelity Figma prototypes to address business challenges across PwC Tax and Enablement products. ### Product Designer - New Ventures @ PwC Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Managed the end-to-end UX process for Workforce Orchestrator, PwC’s HR SaaS employee engagement platform, designing mobile-first new hire onboarding plans and building admin dashboards to assess employee sentiment at scale, resulting in a 27% improvement in 90-day employee retention and a 43% reduction in first-day no-shows. ### UX Designer @ Fiscalhive Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Jose Redesigned FiscalHive's loan pool analyzer, enabling credit unions to efficiently review and manage transactions totaling over $11 million. Simplified workflows and enhanced data visualization to help users assess risk, mark loans for removal, and finalize participation packages. This work directly supported the mission to increase liquidity and transparency within the $892 billion credit union market. ### Independent Designer @ Self-employed Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Worked with clients across industries to define concepts, design workflows, and create impactful digital experiences. Designed MVPs for early-stage startups, delivered marketing collateral to elevate product visibility, and collaborated with stakeholders to improve mobile and web applications. Took ownership of both UX and visual design across projects, ensuring outcomes aligned with client goals and user needs. Select Clients: Udacity, Sony Biotechnologies, Gaia Interactive, Cellebrite, The Valley Real Estate. ### UX Designer @ Captora Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, CA Designed experiences in Captora's web-based marketing platform to optimizing customer's understanding and improve workflows within the application. Unified Captora's user interfaces and internal design language. ### Design Intern @ Uber Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, California Supported UberEATS product by designing packaging to add value to the end user experience. Also supported the communications design team by designing various marketing deliverables for web, print, and interface. ### Design Intern @ ZURB Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Campbell, California Worked with the Foundation team to help enhance the onboarding experience for new users to the framework. Designed illustrations, wrote copy, and coded pages on Foundation Docs and marketing site. ### Graphic Designer @ Kalio Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Cupertino, California ### Graphic Designer @ Skeletal Kinetics Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Cupertino, California ## Education ### Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Graphic Design San José State University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/prestonmcpeak - Portfolio: http://prestonmcpeak.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/prestonmcpeak JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/prestonmcpeak/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13