Product Designer and Design Technologist
Los Altos, CA|Remote only|415-350-0268|david.paterni@gmail.com
Portfolio: https://www.davidpaterni.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidpaterni/
GitHub: https://github.com/davidpaterni/
I lead product design as an individual contributor across enterprise SaaS and consumer apps. I turn dense product logic, complex workflows, and hard constraints into experiences people trust and act on, then move the metrics that prove it. The work spans real estate, health, enterprise operations, analytics platforms, NLP, automotive, and media, plus live products I designed and shipped end to end in accessibility compliance, consumer finance, and interview prep. I'm in the room with engineering through QA, and I stay until it ships. I've authored the standards teams run on. I've taken products from zero to one.
Standards teams run on: I fit an existing process without a ramp, partner with product and engineering from early framing through production QA, and I have authored the standards other people work inside.
Domain adaptability: I learn a domain by building in it, and I arrive fluent in the shape of the problem instead of asking what the problem is.
End to end ownership: I decide what to build, prove it works with analytics and experimentation, and design the surfaces most people skip.
Prototyping and risk reduction: Most of the work lives in Figma. When a flow is too subtle to judge from a static screen, I build a working prototype so the team decides on something running instead of a picture. I do not write production code inside an organization. You have engineers for that. I get the hard interaction right first.