# Ryan Brownlow > Sr. Staff Product Designer Location: Oakland, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ryanbrownlow Senior Product Designer | AI/ML Design Expert | 20+ Years Building Products at Scale Product Designer with 20+ years of experience designing user experiences for millions of users across enterprise and startup environments. Currently specializing in human-AI interaction design and leading product strategy for AI-powered business tools. Core Expertise: - AI/ML Product Design & Human-AI Interaction Patterns - Design Systems & Scalable Design Operations - (Integrating AI) - Cross-functional Leadership & Team Building - User Research & Data-Driven Design Decisions - Technical Collaboration (Front-end Development, APIs) Recent Focus: Founding Designer at AI startup, where I designed the first AI presentation agent with deep business context integration. Led comprehensive user research with 40+ enterprise customers, developed product strategy that secured $5M seed funding, and created design systems supporting rapid product development. Background: Built and led design teams through multiple successful acquisitions (Snowflake, ServiceNow). Experience ranges from Fortune 500 companies (Adobe ecosystem) to early-stage startups, with expertise in complex technical products including ML data intelligence, observability platforms, and AI-powered business tools. Technical Skills: Figma, Design Systems, Prototyping, User Research, HTML/CSS, React, AI Tool Integration ## Work Experience ### Sr. Staff Product Designer @ Adobe Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Founding Designer @ Korl Jan 2022 – Jan 2026 | Oakland, California, United States ### Head of Design @ Sisu Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Sr. Product Designer @ Sisu Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Oakland, California, United States ### Sr. Product Designer @ LightStep Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area As the Design Lead for several product teams, I work in a triad with a Product Manager and Engineering Lead to lead our team. We define our teams' roadmaps, project work. I created the schedule for discovery and executed all design, research, and synthesis activities - coordinating with cross-functional teams and key stakeholders to ensure company alignment. Audit the design maturity of the organization and plan how to improve. - Identify the need for a design system and get the implementation off the ground. - Identify the need for and implemented a User Research information repository. - Lead and execute the design for multiple product teams. - Influenced product strategy by leading several product discovery efforts. - Implemented user-centric process frameworks and conducted numerous workshops with agile development teams, sales, and customer success teams. - Organized and facilitated customer research using multiple methods and tools for both discovery and delivery project phases. - Refine the design hiring process and interview designers. - Become a data-driven design team - Define success metrics - Measure design success or failure based on data. - Systematize this process and evangelize it. ### Lead Product Design Consultant @ Creator Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, CA Creating a powerful ecosystem of applications for Creators customers, engineering teams, restaurant staff and management. This includes responsive web, iWatch, native iOS, native Android and Robot interface apps. ### Lead UX Design Consultant @ Stealth Startup Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco My job was to audit existing sales funnel user flow, suggest improvements and do user testing sessions to validate our designs. Then repeat the process to refine the sales funnel experience to maximize performance. Aside from this I also created the foundation of a style guide and design system for the growing team. ### Lead UX Designer @ Famous Industries, Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco As Lead UX Designer for the Famous Platform, I was responsible for the entire application's direction from a user experience standpoint. I worked with the CEO, Head of Product, and a team of engineers to define its direction. This work included visual design, user experience, user research, and documenting everything for the broader group. As the design team leader, I used a mix of Agile and Lean methods to iterate and understand what features to tackle quickly. I created a UI Library, design system, and worked with engineers to further turn these into React components to further develop our growing team. ### Sr. User Experience Consultant / Product Designer @ RBDesignd Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Oakland, CA I consulted development teams on UX projects for Toptal, Content Canopy, Biba Systems, MyPoints and Appirio. Each of these projects required meeting with C-level project stakeholders and product users to define project goals, application features and technical specifications. Then I worked to design and test core features. Once the projects were designed, I worked with developers to translate designs accurately and manage visual design assets for the project. I have also been selected to work with Toptal Design, which notoriously selects only 3% of applicants. ### Sr. UX Consultant @ Appirio Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 As a consultant I worked on the Appirio Research and Development team for almost a year. We designed and built the class leading crowdsourcing digital services platform and redesigned the consumer facing Topcoder.com website. I worked with CTO and product managers to develop the product roadmap and direction for 2015 and 2016. We developed a complete new look and feel along with a responsive UI Kit, production ready assets and worked with developers to build as designed. ### Sr UX Consultant @ MyPoints.com Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 I was responsible for the redesign of the back office side of the MyPoints platform. In addition I oversaw the implementation of a newly designed UI for the main MyPoints web application. In support of the platform we also designed a pair of mobile applications that allowed users to earn new gift cards in a gamified setting and send gift cards to friends with picture and video messages. ### Sr. User Experience Designer @ Adobe Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Creating powerful User Interfaces for some of the largest digital marketing software out there. The Digital Marketing Suite and Adobe Social. We worked with different teams to identify project goals and then worked to deliver high quality user experiences to our customers. d ### Sr. User Experience Designer @ Context Optional Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco My responsibilities included interacting with key project stakeholders and defining product features and goals. I completely redesigned the Social Marketing Suite, one of the first social marketing platforms. ### Design / Front End Developer @ Exygy Design and Build Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | San Francisco, CA Design user experiences for websites, Facebook applications and touch screen apps. ### Digital Illustrator @ Serious Business Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | San Francicsco Design and Illustrate screens, background, characters and game elements for several Facebook games. Design user experience and game play as well. ### Front End Developer @ Credit Karma Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | San Francisco, CA Complete Front End Development. ### Freelance Web Designer @ RBDesignd Jan 2002 – Jan 2006 Clients include Philips, Stentor, Hard Rock Café, and many more. These projects include work in Photoshop and Illustrator, Flash, and Flash video. I created all types of graphics, web applications, videos, and flash websites. I worked independently and with groups, such as Art Directors, designers, programmers and clients. ### Jr. Designer @ Customer Centric Technology Integration Services Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 As a Jr. Designer I created graphics, layouts and new features for medical billing applications. I learned the basics of application development, customer interactions and workflow development. ## Education ### None in Illustration California College of the Arts ### Graphic Communications Clemson University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ryanbrownlow - Portfolio: https://www.korl.co --- Source: https://flows.cv/ryanbrownlow JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ryanbrownlow/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13