Zach Louden
Product Designer · San Francisco Bay Area · zlouden@gmail.com
Experience
Product Designer & Consultant · Independent · Self-employed
- Designed complex data‑driven SaaS, developer tools, and interaction patterns for technical users
- Built dashboards, data viz, rule engines, and workflows for power users
- Created scalable design systems — icons, components, visual language
- Partnered with engineering and PM to ship clear, feasible, high‑quality implementations
- Built Figma + Sketch plugins with Claude Code to automate design‑system QA and remediation at scale
- Delivered component replacement + variable/token workflows; improved performance and accessibility (state, virtualization, edge cases)
Product Design Lead · Postman
UX/Product Design Team Lead for the Ecosystem Team. Managed a team of 6 product designers through multiple major releases.
Senior Product Designer · HashiCorp
Focused on the Structure design system and Terraform Cloud — working on parity between open‑source and cloud versions, usability, and navigation.
Senior Product Designer · StreamSets
Led the top‑down redesign of the StreamSets platform. Established the company's first design system, Richmond, with custom icons, components, and guidelines.
UX Design Lead · Nuna Health
Design lead for tools used to transfer, error‑check, and view Medicaid data from 50 states and 7 U.S. territories (~70M lives). Presented at CMS HQ in Baltimore; the dashboard is now used by 42 states in production.
Senior UX Architect · CSC
Led design for major enterprise clients including Mastercard (LMI) and Pfizer (HR self‑service portal).
UX / Product Designer · Space‑Time Insight
Designed a complex logistics application for FedEx Express — a modern replacement for the 30‑year‑old TRAC and Route planning systems.
UX / UI Designer · X2Engine CRM
Helped design an open‑source CRM that grew to 33,000+ deployments in 160 countries.
UX Designer · Google
Designed an internal CRM for the Local Marketing team and contributed to the official style guide.
UX / Visual Designer · Cisco Systems
Redesigned Prime Security Manager and IronPort email security applications.
UX Designer · Marketo
Designed icons, UI elements, and page layouts for a platform serving 40,000+ users.
UX Designer · RiseSmart
Designed SaaS products from concept through implementation.
UX Designer · Adchemy
Designed a Flex‑based SaaS application with animated UI elements in Flash and ActionScript.
Education
BFA Fine Art, minor in Graphic / Web Design
Columbus College of Art & Design
Skills
Honors
- #1 Ranked Open Source CRMTechRepublic, 2013
- BtoB Social Media Marketing Award WinnerBtoB Magazine, 2012
- Forrester Groundswell Award FinalistForrester, 2011
Languages
- English (native)
- Russian (limited working)
- Spanish (limited working)