# Sean C. > Senior Product Designer at Canva Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Profile: https://flows.cv/seanc1 🚀 Career Summary I have been working in Product Design for 5 years now, and I have been loving my journey so far. I currently work at Canva, within the scrappy Internal Apps team, and I lead the design of Canvaworld, which is a custom built platform that connects Canva employees around the globe to one another and the business. At ASOS, I was responsible for designing a simple and trust worthy Checkout experience, generating multi-million GBP opportunities. At Workvivo, I contributed to the growth of the employee communications and engagement platform through designing content creation and analytics features, which helped secure major clients such as Amazon, Bupa, Kmart and more. 🛠️ Core Competencies • End to End Product Design • Product strategy • User research • Conceptualisation • Visual design • Prototyping • Data analysis • Usability testing • Collaboration (PM, Engineering, C-Suite, Customer Success, Sales, Marketing, + more) • Stakeholder engagement / Workshopping • Storytelling • Accessibility WCAG knowledge • HTML, CSS, JS, React, React Native 🎸Outside of Work When not behind a screen, you can find me at a local cafe drinking a flat white, in the sea for a dip, or at one of my fav artists in concert! ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer - Print (Ecommerce) @ Canva Jan 2025 – Present | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ### Senior Product Designer - Internal Tools (HR Tech) @ Canva Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ### Product Designer - Internal Tools (HR Tech) @ Canva Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Empowering everyone at Canva to find people, announcements, pathways, and more by leading design on our internal bespoke product - Canvaworld ✨ ### Product Designer - Checkout @ ASOS.com Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | London, England, United Kingdom Held responsibility for enhancing the checkout, payments and identity experience and reported directly to the Lead PD in the same product area. Fostered a culture of continuous discovery in Checkout by conducting weekly user interviews and incorporated the feedback into the product roadmap. Worked on over 14 impactful checkout, payments and identity projects aimed at improving conversion rates and simplifying customer experience. Actively mentored, educated, and collaborated with a team of 12 designers through Design Crits, while establishing a shared learning environment for their transition to Figma with weekly Figma drop-in calls. Represented ASOS’ Product team in partner case studies such as Miro and Figma, LinkedIn recruitment campaigns, and multiple talks showcasing the team's expertise and company brand. ### Product Designer - Employee Experience @ Workvivo (a Zoom company) Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Cork, Ireland / London, England Workvivo is an employee experience app that amplifies company culture in a digital format by allowing colleagues to stay informed, connected and engaged. • First Product Designer hired at this fast-growing and successful SaaS Startup to kickstart the end-to-end design process • Effectively define and validate problems, spear-head user research, creatively ideate and experiment with solutions by creating user flows, wireframes and prototypes, collaborate with product and design, presenting back solutions to team and company stakeholders, testing with users... all on over 20 projects over nearly 2 years • Present to senior leaders on current projects, as well as presenting company-wide product showcases of new features • Assist with hiring of talent, as well as successfully onboarding design talent to get up to speed with the company, the product and the design process • a11y lead whereby I improved the quality of our code-base to conform with WCAG 2.1 AA standards, trained developers, crafted documentation, and advocate for and assist with a11y during the product process. ### Data Business Analyst @ Barclays Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | London, United Kingdom • Corporate Chief Data Office (Data Governance team, ensuring the data quality of Barclays corporate complies with regulations and provides high business value for the corporate bank) • Created a Data Quality Dashboard using MS Excel and VBA for the team and for senior management across the corporate bank to enable them to make decisions around data governance - User centered design from User Research stage to developer hand off - User testing - Designed with Barclays Brand Design Systems • Working collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders across Barclays' global presence, by having daily contact with the global team in Northern UK, US and India • Presenting to senior management my work, and also on diversity in Barclays • Exposed to technologies such as Teradata SQL, Tableau, UX / UI prototyping and User Research • Achieved this placement opportunity by completing a Technology Spring Week Internship in April 2018  • Successfully offered a full time graduate position ### CX Support Specialist @ Airbnb Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | County Cork, Ireland Providing efficient service to Airbnb guests and hosts as part of Telus International during a summer of college! Non-Trip Case Manager, which means handling queries related to the Airbnb product and website. My duties include; • Answering customer queries by receiving inbound calls from / making outbound calls to / emailing using macros to Airbnb users from around the world • Having high-quality product knowledge of the Airbnb platform and systems • Being confident on the phone, as well as remaining calm in stressful situations, and being both reassuring and empathetic towards Airbnb users • Having both clear and strong verbal and written skills for working in a Multi-Cultural environment • Reaching and surpassing daily targets of CPD (Closes per Day) and maintain a good NPS (Net Promoter Score) through surveys from Airbnb users • Being efficient when using multiple different software at a time and multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment. • Having a good sense of teamwork by helping other team members with cases, as well as asking Team Leaders and other colleagues for advice on more trickier cases ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Business Information Systems University College Cork ### Professional Diploma in User Experience Design UX Design Institute ### High School in Leaving Certificate Ballincollig Community School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/seanconlon497 - Portfolio: http://www.sconlon.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/seanc1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/seanc1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31