Evan Verdoia

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10+ years leading enterprise UX and AI product design.

Enterprise UX and AI product design leader with 10+ years building scalable SaaS platforms, AI-native product workflows, and cross-functional design strategy. Proven track record modernizing legacy systems, driving executive and cross-functional alignment, and delivering measurable business outcomes in security, infrastructure, and platform modernization domains. Deep fluency in agentic AI tooling (Claude Code, Figma MCP, multi-agent pipelines) used to accelerate product discovery, prototyping, and shipping.

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Email: everdoia@gmail.com

Phone: 408.386.5566

Focus: Enterprise UX & AI Product Design

Experience

Head of Design

8/2026 – Present

Point Wild · Remote

  • Leading end-to-end design for ThreatPoint — a 0-1 cybersecurity product — co-owning product strategy, PRDs, and direct advisory to the CEO and CTO.
  • Led customer research (14 sessions) that validated and drove a product pivot from a generic crypto-scanning tool to a blast-radius and migration-impact analysis tool.
  • Turning ambiguous technical concepts — cryptographic taxonomy, dependency graphs, quantum posture — into a clear data model and plain-language interface, raising the bar for how complex data is surfaced to users.
  • Building and owning ThreatPoint's design system (components, tokens, typography, documentation), scaling a shared quality standard across product, engineering, and marketing.
  • Mentoring designers company-wide on AI-assisted design workflows, raising design craft and speed beyond individual projects.

Lead Designer and Manager

2/2023 – 6/2025

Swimlane · Remote

  • Led end-to-end design of AI-powered security SaaS, driving platform modernization, system scalability, and complex workflow redesign.
  • Modernized legacy enterprise multi-user workflows using systems thinking and iterative validation, reducing operational support burden by 23% and increasing customer efficiency.
  • Partnered with Engineering and Product leadership to translate strategy into design-led outcomes, accelerating time-to-market.
  • Delivered Figma prototypes and polished designs across critical data-intensive and dashboard workflows.
  • Managed and mentored a team of 3 designers, scaling design systems, governance practices, and design operations in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.

Senior UX Designer IV

5/2022 – 2/2023

Atlassian · Remote

  • Researched, validated, and designed admin module with a focus on streamlining workflows to increase number of daily active end-users.
  • Designed multi-user SaaS flows, collaborating across Product, Engineering, and leadership to align on design strategy, information architecture, data models, and key performance indicators.
  • Mentored junior designers within company.

Senior UX Designer

2/2019 – 5/2022

Citrix · Santa Clara, CA

  • Spearheaded UX design of a new SaaS app utilizing AI/ML models.
  • Designed the information architecture, UX/UI, and primary flows.
  • Collaborated with Senior Principal Architects on data flow models and core architecture principles which were socialized with Engineering and product management groups.
  • Created pattern-level designs and product-design architecture implemented within four core products in an effort to unify the portfolio.
  • Worked with stakeholders to set backlog priorities and product-led growth vision, resulting in significant marketing budget and sales staff investment from the Executive Leadership Team.

Design Lead and Manager

1/2016 – 1/2019

CA Technologies · Santa Clara, CA

  • Oversaw redesign and launch of a legacy Enterprise SaaS product, including redesign of the information architecture and UX of core modules for the mobile and desktop applications.
  • Grew team from one to five designers in two years.
  • Balanced limited resources across a large number of projects to maximize designer impact.
  • Built a culture of self-driven designers empowered to help drive the product roadmap and help bring UX to the forefront of product decisions.
  • Worked with product management to co-design a product-discovery and feature-delivery system that helped engineering, design, and product management departments align, set clear priorities, and share the same vocabulary.

User Experience Designer

5/2014 – 12/2015

InfoStretch Corporation · Santa Clara, CA

  • Led design and shipment of simultaneous Enterprise and mobile products with international design and development teams.
  • Led organization-wide redesign of user-centered process and tools for generating and delivering designs.
  • Worked closely with international engineering teams to determine design feasibility and ensure development accuracy.

Skills

AI & Agentic Workflows

AI-Native Product DesignAgentic Workflows (Claude Code, Figma MCP, Multi-Agent Pipelines)AI/ML-Integrated Workflows

Product & Strategy

Product Strategy & PRD OwnershipProduct DiscoveryMulti-User WorkflowsInstitutional/B2B DesignPlatform ModernizationDesign Governance

Research & Collaboration

Customer Research & Strategic InfluenceCross-Functional Collaboration & Executive AlignmentCross-Functional Program LeadershipUsability TestingHeuristic Evaluation

Domain Expertise

Enterprise SaaSData GovernanceSecurity & Compliance UXPost-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) & Quantum-Risk UX

Craft & Tools

End-to-End Product DesignRapid PrototypingDesign OpsFigmaAgileHTML/CSS

Education

California State University, Monterey Bay
B.A., Social/Behavioral Sciences
Foci: Human Interaction and Geospatial Information Systems