# Yair Pike (ရဲပိုက်) > UX leader | Design Director at eightfold.ai Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/yairpike I am a Design Executive and Product Strategist with a specialized "hybrid" edge: I bridge the gap between high-level creative vision and complex software architecture. Throughout my career at industry leaders like Eightfold AI, ADP, Amazon, and Fiverr, I have focused on building scalable design infrastructures that don't just look good—they drive massive business growth and engineering efficiency. The Hybrid Edge: Technical Design Architecture I don't just manage design libraries; I architect the technical systems that power them. At Eightfold AI, I spearheaded the Octuple Design System, personally coding CSS tokens to ensure a seamless bridge between design intent and React components. I’ve pioneered workflows for AI coding agents to interpret design patterns and accessibility guidelines, enabling teams to move from concept to production at unprecedented speeds. AI-Native Product Strategy I have a deep, hands-on understanding of the generative AI landscape. Beyond directing complex agentic features like Copilot and AI Recruiter for enterprise scale, I actively ship AI-native products through my venture, dollyland.ai. From LLM integration to prompt engineering, I’ve designed and launched a suite of applications including Sage, Aether, Linus, and Andorman, managing the full lifecycle from vision to App Store submission. Leadership & Measurable Business Impact My leadership style is rooted in empowering multidisciplinary teams (12+ designers) to solve high-stakes business problems. Engagement: Orchestrated search and navigation overhauls at Fiverr that resulted in a 64% increase in user engagement. Retention: Led design efforts at Audible that increased the lifetime value of subscriptions by 1.8x and helped users finish books 2.5x faster. Efficiency: Architected a scalable framework at Amazon Music that reduced engineering friction by 3x. Innovation: Filed 9 design patterns with the USPTO for innovative GUI builders and developer tool structures. I am passionate about the intersection of human-centered design and autonomous technology. Whether I’m speaking on "The Future of Design" panels or mentoring the next generation of designers, my goal is to build products that are as technically robust as they are intuitive. ## Work Experience ### Design Director @ Eightfold Jan 2021 – Present | Santa Clara, CA Executive Leadership: Led a cross-functional organization of 12 designers to execute a comprehensive visual and UX transformation of the entire Eightfold AI product suite, aligning the platform with a cohesive "Intelligence Experience" vision. Octuple Design System: Spearheaded the architecture and launch of Octuple, Eightfold’s centralized design system. Built and managed a dedicated systems team to deliver a production-ready component library and documentation within 90 days, establishing a unified foundation for Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, and AI-native products. Technical Design Architecture: Personally architected the system’s technical baseline by coding CSS/Sass design tokens using atomic design principles. Integrated structures for AI coding agents to interpret patterns and accessibility guidelines, reducing design-to-production time by 40% and ensuring a single source of truth between Figma and React code. Agentic UX & AI Integration: Served as the primary design strategist for integrating Generative AI features, including "Copilot," "AI Interviewer," and "AI Interview Companion." Translated complex LLM capabilities into intuitive, user-centric recruiting and management assistants through end-to-end architectural guidance. Operational Excellence: Modernized departmental workflows by implementing 3-day rapid user testing cycles and integrating generative AI design tools. These initiatives doubled the collective productivity of the Content Design, Research, and Technical Writing teams while significantly reducing design debt across 16+ product squads. Product Impact: Directed the design of the Career Hub’s Development Plan, a flagship feature utilized by Fortune 500 corporations for enterprise-scale performance reviews. The tool currently supports tens of thousands of active users and serves as a key driver for employee growth and upskilling. ### User Experience Design Manager, Developer Experience @ Lifion by ADP Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | New York, NY Joined and led the internal designers to form a design department inside the Lifion Development Platform org. Hired five more designers, including a design leader to strengthen UX teams across the company. Built and managed a team of four designers to support 16 different scrum teams with 28 different projects happening at the same time. Built the design system from scratch for the different developer tools on the web-based platform. It is tokenized and theme supported in sass and uses only CSS and HTML for clearer and easier design to development communication and pixel perfect scaling for responsive web. Created a design scaling architecture using a modification of atomic design system to control the quality of the components proposed by design team members. Designed and directed interfaces for GUI builders, API connectors, database providers, app logic building interfaces, mailing system interfaces, debuggers, log viewers, entity relationship diagrams, developer documentations structure, internal developer community website, and internal GIT user interface. Have filed and approvals pending for nine design patterns from USPTO. ### UX Lead for Developer Experience @ Lifion by ADP Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area ### Product Designer @ Fiverr Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 • Led the browsing experience of category navigation flows and search experience of Fiverr.com. • Solved matching problems by creating immediate and long-term solutions based on user research, user testing, and real-time data. • These solutions resulted in a 5% increase in first-time buyers, a 10% increase in average sale price, and a 6% decrease in cancellation rate. • I also built the skill testing flow for sellers to verify their skills and experience. I redesigned the navigation to improve the visibility of subcategories and nested categories within categories. • I designed the portfolio gallery for sellers, a list view to support buyer experience, and redesigned the category, subcategory, and nested category pages. ### Lead UX Designer @ Audible, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Newark, NJ • Led the WhisperSync for Voice design team with 3 direct reports • Led the design of Audible listening features and ebook+audiobook buying options into the new Kindle Oasis 2017 version. Designed it to back support eligible previous Kindle ereaders. • Responsible for end-to-end design process for the team, and planned & managed the design sprint for the team • Successfully launched Audible's experience in Kindle Page-Flip, Prime Reading, Kindle Unlimited for Australia, and many more. • Created unique personas for Audible + Kindle customers, educational materials and first time experience for them • Established design guidelines and workflows • Designed and launched Audible sales touch points and UX flows on Amazon and Kindle apps for all platforms • These efforts have led to users finishing reading books 2.5x faster and increased the lifetime value of Audible subscription memberships by 1.8x. Helped the Kindle team with Bluetooth user interaction for e-readers and designed the scaling architecture for their Kindle experience update. ### Sr. UX Designer @ Amazon Music Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco • Designed and established guidelines for the Amazon Music Store, Prime Music, and user library designs on different generations of Fire tablets • Created a scalable design for all Fire OS tablets which has reduced engineering efforts by 3X and gave new features faster to customer with older generation devices • Worked together with Fire OS platform design team and designed Magazine Home Launcher UX for Amazon Music • Desgined flows and wrote requirements to support SD card feature for both Fire OS and Android devices • Led both the designing and scripting of UX research on product features to be build across all platforms • Designed and supported Prime Stations for desktop player on Mac and Windows ### Senior User Experience Designer @ Amazon Music Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Designed and established guidelines for the Amazon Music Store, Prime Music, and user library designs on different generations of Fire tablets. Created a scalable design architecture that reduced engineering efforts by 3X and delivered new features faster to customers with older generation devices. Worked with the Fire OS design system team in Seattle to influence design patterns across different organizations inside Amazon. This effort included participation and collaboration with the Kindle, Audible, Prime Video, Alexa, and Fire OS design teams. ### UX Designer @ Spotsetter (Acquired by Apple) Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, CA Spotsetter is a social search engine tackling a big data problem in the online to offline space. "Where to go" is socially relevant and we help answer that through the vast amount of content your friends have already created across all social networks. Top results are based on friendship and knowledge on location/topic. Let your friends' existing content provide all the answers for discovering places and trending hotspots. Mobile UX/UI • Designed well-praised UX/UI of iOS and Android products (5 stars, 100+ reviews), • Conceived and prepared designs for 25 app versions and 200+ mockups • Collaborated with team to improve two key metrics (6x gain) with enhanced UX • Assessed design options with developers to accelerate delivery and created multiple versions to meet flexible implementation timelines • Thoroughly tested each build, identified issues, and produced reports for developers Web and Collateral • Prepared company investor and conference presentations and graphics • Designed creatives for multiple mobile ad platforms User Testing • Interviewed 70+ users, documented and compiled weekly user tests into digestible summaries and actionable changes • Designed 30+ mobile mockups for personalized user tests to validate social features Industry Research and Ideation • Conceived and advised new ideas based on mobile trends, assessed design against speed of delivery, resulting in 10% of new features • Led several product team brainstorming sessions to generate new feature ideas • Improve returning users by 80%, in-app notification open rate by 50%, and weekly active users by 24%. ### Founder / Designer / Product Guy @ Upendo Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco, CA upendo (u-pen-do) is a mobile app which will let users share the things they love about their friends and let the whole world knows how awesome they are. A side project with the help of friends from high school. Wearing a lot of hats and doing a lot of experiments beyond my capabilities. ### Senior Interface Designer @ Globant Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco, CA • Prepared UI/UX, wireframes, flows, product specs, requirements for games and enterprise apps • Designed apps for Web and mobile: iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Mobile • Clients include Big Fish Games, AT&T, GameStop, Slice Technologies, BlackHawk Network ### Freelance Designer @ HyperTime Studio Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Vallejo, CA HyperTime Studio is my online portfolio website and I did freelance logo designing on designcrowd.com for 8 months. • Participated in 100+ online logo design contests on designcrowd.com and won 30+ • 87% positive feedback from project owners and ranked 8th among 40,802 designers ### Multimedia Designer @ Singapore Press Holdings Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 Incorporated in 1984, main board-listed Singapore Press Holdings Ltd (SPH) is Southeast Asia’s leading media organisation, engaging minds and enriching lives across multiple languages and platforms. • Led design team for iPhone app that generated 60M monthly web views; won Best Mobile Application Award from Singapore infocomm Technology Federation • Led design team and created micro-sites for 18-28 year-olds on www.STOMP.com.sg • Designed a Facebook Wall-style platform for STOMP • Created micro-sites for Singapore’s Ministry of Defense, National Library Board (NLB) • Created posters, videos, and public transit ads for NLB’s Fix That Sign campaign ### Graphic Designer @ Esco Micro Pte Ltd Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 Esco is recognized as a global player in containment, clean air and laboratory equipment technology. They are highly oriented towards the international marketplace, with distribution in more than 100 countries and a direct presence in 10 of the key global markets. Esco represents innovation, forward-thinking design, coupled with the tradition of quality since 1978. I joined Esco for only two months and while I was with them, I was responsible for designing layout for user manuals & promotional material. I was also a photographer for the promotional photoshoots. ### Web and Graphic Designer @ World Health Organization Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 | Yangon, Myanmar. WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends. • Responsible for design and management of the WHO Myanmar website. • Designed user-friendly health education books, flyers, informational charts, calendars and health promotional products for healthcare providers • Designed presentations and collateral for WHO Representative medical officers ### Web and Graphic Designer @ eTrade Myanmar Co., Ltd. Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 | Yangon, Myanmar The 1st Myanmar B2B Portal providing Business resources, commodity prices, markets watch, ports watch, free post offers and much more. I was fresh out of school and joined the company as the junior web designer and in 3 months, I became the team leader of a three designer team working night shift for European customers. ## Education ### Bachelor in Computer Technology University of Computer Studies, Yangon ### Diploma in Computer Arts University of Culture, Yangon ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yairpike - Portfolio: http://yairpike.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/yairpike JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yairpike/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13