# Ross Moody

> Design Director Design Systems

Location: Richmond, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rossmoody

Hi, I'm Ross—a seasoned design technologist with over 20 years designing and building products. I've spent the last 7+ years specializing in design systems, notably at Brave and currently at AuditBoard, where I focus on bridging the gap between design and engineering.

## Work Experience
### Principal Product Designer @ Optro
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Defining the strategy, standards, and AI infrastructure for the Luna design system serving multiple enterprise product teams. Coaching and evangelizing the design system's three-pillar strategy — machine-readable documentation, consistency measurement, and self-governance tooling — adopted by product leadership as the organizational framework for product quality and velocity.

### Design Technologist Lead @ Rippling
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led a team of 3 building Rippling's cross-platform design system from creation through enterprise-wide adoption. Established creation, maintenance, and documentation workflows, reducing design-to-engineering handoff friction across product teams.

### Principal Design Technologist @ Splunk
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, CA
Bridged design and engineering to develop scalable, accessible components for Splunk's enterprise design system. Established shared component APIs and contribution standards that unified disparate team practices across design and engineering.

### Senior Product Designer, Design Systems @ Zendesk
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Delivered a complete design system website launch with unified guidelines, toolkits, and components for product teams.

### Design Systems Lead @ Brave Software
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led the redesign of the Brave browser and cross-platform design system effort during its Muon-to-Chromium migration, directing UX strategy for core flows impacting millions of users.

### Senior Product Designer @ SolarWinds
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Owner @ 55 Hi's
Jan 2008 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area

### Creative Director @ Total Food Service
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 | Greenwich, CT

### Art Director @ TracyLocke
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | Wilton, CT


## Education
### Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Communication Design
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/moodyrooster
- Portfolio: https://www.rossmoody.com
- Dribbble: https://www.dribbble.com/_rossmoody

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Last updated: 2026-04-13