Product Designer Resume Example (2026 Guide)
Product Designer resume example
A complete sample in the Modern template FitMyRole exports. The person and employers are fictional; the structure, skills and bullet style are what to copy.
Elijah Lawson
[email protected] • (555) 013-9256 • New York, NY • linkedin.com/in/elijahlawson
Professional Summary
Senior Product Designer with 9 years designing B2B and consumer software, the last 4 leading end-to-end design for a payroll platform used by 38,000 small businesses. Owns the onboarding, payroll run and tax setup experiences, from research and problem framing to Figma prototypes, usability testing and launch metrics. Redesigned first-payroll onboarding, lifting 14-day activation from 52% to 67% and cutting setup support tickets by 31%. Works as a product partner to PMs and engineers, shaping roadmap bets with research evidence and keeping a shared design system of 180 components current.
Skills
- Product Design: End-to-end product design, interaction design, user flows, information architecture, product thinking, problem framing, B2B SaaS
- User Research: User interviews, usability testing, diary studies, card sorting and tree testing, survey design, jobs to be done, Maze, Dovetail
- Prototyping & Tools: Figma, FigJam, Figma prototyping with variables, ProtoPie, Sketch, Zeplin
- Design Systems: Component libraries, design tokens, usage documentation, accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA), responsive and mobile design
- Metrics & Experimentation: Activation and retention metrics, Amplitude, A/B testing, funnel analysis, success metric definition
- Collaboration: Cross-functional work with PMs and engineers, design critiques, workshop facilitation, roadmap planning, mentoring
Education & Certification
- Thesis: a transit trip planner for riders with low vision, tested with 15 riders and an accessibility advocacy group.
Work Experience
Senior Product DesignerFebruary 2022 – PresentBrownstone Payroll, New York, NY
- Raised 14-day activation from 52% to 67% by redesigning first-payroll onboarding around a guided checklist, prefilled tax data and save-and-return, validated in 3 rounds of moderated usability testing.
- Cut onboarding support tickets by 31% by mapping the top 20 ticket reasons with the support team and redesigning the 6 screens that produced most of them.
- Interview 6 to 8 small business owners and accountants each month and run unmoderated tests in Maze, keeping a Dovetail research repository that PMs cite in roadmap reviews.
- Shaped the decision to build off-cycle payroll by framing the problem with the PM, sizing demand from 1,400 support conversations and testing 3 concepts before any engineering work began.
- Lead the Figma design system of 180 components with 2 designers and the front-end lead, adding tokens and documentation that cut design-to-shipped time on new screens by about a third.
- Prototype complex flows such as payroll corrections and multi-state tax setup in Figma with variables and conditional logic, giving engineers a clickable reference throughout the build.
- Mentor 2 product designers through weekly critiques, and co-run quarterly design and engineering planning with 3 product squads.
Product DesignerJune 2019 – January 2022Greenpoint Learning, Brooklyn, NY
- Increased weekly active teachers by 22% by redesigning the assignment builder from a 5-step form into a single editable canvas, tested with 18 teachers in classroom visits and remote sessions.
- Designed the student mobile app from first concept to launch on iOS and Android, reaching 4.7 stars from 9,000 ratings in its first year.
- Ran a 3-week diary study with 12 teachers during the move to remote school in 2020, which led the team to prioritize offline-friendly assignments over 2 planned features.
- Created the company’s first shared component library in Figma, migrating 3 product areas from Sketch and aligning web and mobile patterns.
- Defined success metrics for each launch in Amplitude with the data analyst, and presented results to the leadership team after every release.
UX/UI DesignerJuly 2017 – May 2019Bluestone Interactive, New York, NY
- Designed web and mobile products for 10 agency clients in retail, nonprofit and financial services, from wireframes and user flows to high-fidelity interfaces in Sketch.
- Lifted online donation completion by 19% for a national nonprofit client by condensing the donation form from 3 pages to 1 and adding saved payment options.
- Ran card sorting and tree testing with 60 participants to restructure the information architecture of a 400-page retail website.
- Prepared developer handoff in Zeplin with specs and interaction notes, and checked builds against designs before each client launch.
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Tailor my resumeWhy This Resume Works
- Design work is measured in product outcomes: 14-day activation from 52% to 67%, support tickets down 31%, weekly active teachers up 22%, rather than screens or mockups delivered.
- Research is shown as a habit with tools and cadence ("Interview 6 to 8 small business owners and accountants each month", Maze, Dovetail, a diary study), which is what separates a product designer from a UI specialist.
- Product thinking has its own bullet: framing the off-cycle payroll problem with the PM, sizing demand from 1,400 support conversations and testing 3 concepts before engineering began.
- Figma, prototyping and design systems appear with scale (180 components, variables and conditional logic for payroll corrections), matching the keywords in product designer postings.
- The progression from agency UX/UI designer to product designer to senior product designer is clear, with mentoring and squad planning showing the senior scope.
Common Resume Mistakes
- Focusing only on visuals without product or user outcome.
- No metrics (activation, retention, tickets).
- Missing research or prototyping keywords.
Keywords Recruiters Look For
- Product design
- User research
- Figma
- Prototyping
- Design system
- Product thinking
- Usability
- Collaboration
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