Design Engineer, AI-Native Product Systems
Resume:
ALEJANDRO HAYDAR
Design Engineer
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CORE SKILLS
Design Engineering
Product Design
User Interface Design
User Experience Design
Interaction Design
Design Systems
Design Thinking
Facilitation
Rapid Prototyping
Design Research
Front-End Development
AI-NATIVE DESIGN TO CODE
Figma / Figma Connect / Figma Make
Claude Code / Claude
v0 / Pencil / MagicPath
Subframe / Builder.io
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
CSS / Tailwind CSS / React
Git / GitHub
Bilingual: English / Spanish
EXPERIENCE
Thought Industries Jul 2020 - Aug 2026
Design Engineer
Progression: UX Designer to Lead UX Designer to Director of UX to Design Engineer
• Designed user-facing AI and data-driven workflows for LLM-powered assistance, automation, learner-experience experiments, and platform-quality improvements using Claude Code and Pencil.
• Shipped AI-powered learning and customer-education tools from prototype to production, including Conversational Search.
• Pioneered Figma Connect adoption, linking Figma components to coded components, states, and props for pre-linked engineering handoff.
• Built Chameleon, a Tailwind CSS and Figma variable-driven theming system that reduced sales-demo setup from one week to hours, improved conversion, and gave new customers a polished branded starting point.
• Transitioned into a hands-on Design Engineer role in mid-2024 to close the design-to-code gap.
Snowplow Analytics Early 2025 - Present
Design Engineer (Consultant)
• Designed and shipped a new platform onboarding flow using AI-assisted coding tools.
• Consulted product, design, and engineering on the foundations of Snowplow's Agentic Design System, enabling teams to move from v0-first prototypes to system-aligned product delivery.
• Designed and prototyped Snowplow's Chrome extension with the Agentic Design System, accelerating delivery from two quarters to one month through a Figma-to-Claude Code workflow, including support for Signals.
Genscape Dec 2018 - May 2019
Product Designer (Consultant)
• Designed the platform later acquired by Wood Mackenzie.
• Led UX research, testing, and performance-metrics analysis to inform product design and optimization.
Philips Healthcare 2017 - 2018
Interaction Designer
• Conducted in-person user interviews to validate high-fidelity prototypes for complex, high-investment interactions.
• Led projects spanning cataract-surgery planning and patient-monitoring equipment using design-thinking methods and workshops.
Commonwealth Financial Network 2016 - 2017
Design System Lead (Consultant)
• Created design-system infrastructure in Sketch and implemented Abstract for version control, improving collaboration and design-to-engineering handoff across a four-person team.
• Doubled designer-to-developer handoff efficiency, contributing to faster product-release cycles.
Swirl Networks 2015 - 2016
Product Designer
• Partnered with cross-functional teams across the product-development lifecycle, from research through launch.
• Communicated complex interaction and motion concepts through high-fidelity prototypes.
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