# Sanaz Khanali > Product Designer | MS HCI @UCSC Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/sanazkhanali 🎯 I’m a Full-Stack Product Designer passionate about solving complex B2C, B2B, and SaaS challenges. Whether it's leading product discovery through rapid prototyping, or refining pixel-perfect designs, I focus on delivering intuitive solutions that drive real impact. With a background spanning HCI, technology entrepreneurship, and architectural engineering, I bring a unique, systems-thinking approach to shaping product vision and UX strategies. I love collaborating with cross-functional teams, integrating diverse perspectives, and turning challenges into seamless experiences. Outside of work, you'll probably find me geeking out over design systems, testing the latest Figma updates, or sketching out my next big idea over a good cup of coffee. ☕ ## Work Experience ### Lead Product Designer @ Keysight Technologies Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Santa Clara, California, United States • Spearheaded product design for 4 enterprise web applications and features ranging from AI workflow management, vertical agentic AI, visualization, analytics, monitoring dashboards, data pipeline, partnering closely with Engineering, Product, R&D and GTM teams. • Redesigned the analytics platform and delivered 4 validated features 0-1, including a vertical agentic conversational AI, aiming to reduce analysis cycle time by 60% • Unified two product lines into one scalable solution with advanced scheduling, real-time monitoring, and role-based dashboards. • Led the end-to-end design for an AI workflow tool, integrating complex cross-product features for data pipelines, model training, benchmarking, and explainability. • Mentored 9 CS and HCI students through 2 Keysight-sponsored capstone projects, successfully delivered features ### Product Designer @ Tmpt.me Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 • Collaborated with UX researchers and product managers to deliver high-fidelity prototypes for a knowledge base mentoring platform. • Enhanced the onboarding experience for the Webflow website by highlighting core functionalities remotely. ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ University of California, Santa Cruz Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Santa Cruz, California, United States • Holding sections, labs, and office hours with 50+ students for the "3D foundations", and "Algorithmic Ethics" courses ### UX Research and Design - Graduate Student Researcher @ University of California, Santa Cruz Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Santa Clara, California, United States • Reviewed and analyzed 24 literature and 40 game interfaces to define a collective action framework and develop a concept for a Serious Game to enhance climate resiliency policy & action ### UX Research and Design (Social VR Platform) at SET Lab @ University of California, Santa Cruz Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Remote • Assisted principle investigator Dr. Katherine Isbister for NSF & Mozilla funded project, on the iterative development of a Social VR platform ”VR Meeting Spaces for Scientific Collaboration Using Spatialized Datasets” • Prototyped VR environment for scientific collaboration with shapesXR using Quest Pro headsets ### Designer | Project Coordinator @ CORE Architects Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada • Delivered seamless design documents for 10+ high-rise residential projects with over 80% city permit approval rate, collaborating with project managers, clients, and design teams. • Applied agile methodologies to produce handoff-ready designs under tight deadlines, leading daily standup design reviews and coordinating tasks. ### Founding Product Designer @ FAVER Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Faver was an on campus walk sharing food ordering and delivery service. I led the end-to-end design of the mobile app and restaurant dashboard from conception to high-fidelity prototypes. • Conducted research with 100+ users and 3 school food services to validate the product vision and define MVP features. • Created a product requirements document outlining objectives, epics, personas, features, and a detailed roadmap. • Delivered wireframes and mockups, conducting 3 rounds of usability testing, improving user flows, information architecture, and visual design, resulting in a 12% increase in engagement and 2/3 school food services partnerships. ### Graduate Student Association Vice President Internal Audit @ McMaster University Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 • Collaborated to plan several workshops for 100+ student across engineering school & prepared material and hosted 3 career coaching workshops, invited speakers from industry and facilitated the meetings to help students network and advance in their career • Grew the club from 20 t0 30 through ongoing recruiting from existing and new coming students ### Architectural Designer @ Pardaraz Consultant Engineers Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Tehran Province, Iran • Determined clients needs and incorporated their feedback into the design decisions by holding regular meeting with clients and ensuring their satisfaction which resulted in higher retention rates for the company • Refined the final documents and ensured full compliance with building codes, zoning by-laws, and accessibility standards before submissions by conducting several rounds of design reviews and supervising the design process resulted in error-free submissions ### University Lecturer @ Islamic Azad University North Tehran Branch Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 • Incorporated creative teaching materials and delivered timely for 2 undergraduate courses “Introduction to Architectural Design 1” & “Architectural Expression 2” • Encouraged students and improved their learning outcomes by providing engaging lectures, workshops, discussion groups, studio sessions and constructive feedback on their projects and assignments ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Human Computer Interaction University of California, Santa Cruz ### Master of Technology - MTech in Entrepreneurship and innovation McMaster University ### Master of Science - MS in Sustainable Architecture Iran University of Science and Technology ### Bachelor's degree in Architectural Engineering Iran's University of Art ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sanaz-khanali --- Source: https://flows.cv/sanazkhanali JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sanazkhanali/resume.json Last updated: 2026-02-23