Nadia Okonkwo
Nadia Okonkwo, Product Designer

Product Designer · San Francisco, CA

Nadia
Okonkwo

Product designer with eight years across B2B SaaS and consumer products. I turn complex workflows into interfaces people finish, lead cross-functional teams through research to release, and measure the outcome rather than the output.

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Experience
8 years
Roles
4
Available
Nov 2026

Skills

Grouped the way a hiring manager scans them.

Product design

  • Interaction design
  • Design systems
  • Prototyping
  • Information architecture
  • Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA)

Research

  • User interviews
  • Usability testing
  • Journey mapping
  • Survey design
  • Analytics review

Tooling

  • Figma
  • FigJam
  • Principle
  • HTML and CSS
  • React basics

Leadership

  • Design critique
  • Mentoring
  • Stakeholder management
  • Workshop facilitation
  • Roadmap planning

Career

Four roles, one direction.

Full experience

  1. 2023

    Senior Product Designer

    Cascade Analytics · San Francisco, CA · March 2023 to Present

    • Redesigned onboarding, cutting time to first insight from 11 minutes to 4 and lifting activation by 23 percent.
    • Established the company's first design system, reducing design-to-development handoff time by a third.

  2. 2021

    Product Designer

    Meridian Labs · Remote · June 2021 to February 2023

    • Shipped a dashboard builder that raised daily active usage 18 percent in its first quarter.
    • Specified a new charting library with engineering, halving render time and cutting related support tickets by 40 percent.

  3. 2020

    UX Designer

    Brightwave Digital · Austin, TX · January 2020 to May 2021

    • Led the redesign of a healthcare appointment flow, reducing booking abandonment from 34 to 19 percent.
    • Ran accessibility audits on six client products and brought each to WCAG 2.1 AA.

  4. 2018

    Junior UX Designer

    Pixel & Code Studio · Seattle, WA · August 2018 to December 2019

    • Contributed wireframes, flows and visual assets to nine mobile app releases.
    • Ran 30 usability sessions and synthesised them into recommendations that raised task completion by 15 percent.

Education and certifications

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design · Rhode Island School of Design2018
  • Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies2022
  • Quantitative UX Research certificate2021

Availability

Open to senior product design roles from November 2026, remote or San Francisco.

Get in touch

Nadia Okonkwo

Product Designer

San Francisco, CA · nadia.okonkwo@example.com · +1 415 555 0142 · nadiaokonkwo.example

Summary

Product designer with eight years across B2B SaaS and consumer products. I turn complex workflows into interfaces people finish, lead cross-functional teams through research to release, and measure the outcome rather than the output.

Experience

Senior Product Designer, Cascade Analytics, San Francisco, CA

March 2023 – Present

  • Redesigned onboarding, cutting time to first insight from 11 minutes to 4 and lifting activation by 23 percent.
  • Established the company's first design system, reducing design-to-development handoff time by a third.
  • Ran 60 user interviews across two quarters and turned them into a prioritised roadmap adopted by three product teams.
  • Mentored four designers with weekly critique; two were promoted within the year.

Product Designer, Meridian Labs, Remote

June 2021 – February 2023

  • Shipped a dashboard builder that raised daily active usage 18 percent in its first quarter.
  • Specified a new charting library with engineering, halving render time and cutting related support tickets by 40 percent.
  • Built interactive prototypes for quarterly reviews that secured funding for two strategic initiatives.

UX Designer, Brightwave Digital, Austin, TX

January 2020 – May 2021

  • Led the redesign of a healthcare appointment flow, reducing booking abandonment from 34 to 19 percent.
  • Ran accessibility audits on six client products and brought each to WCAG 2.1 AA.
  • Delivered 14 client engagements on time, presenting rationale and research to executive stakeholders.

Junior UX Designer, Pixel & Code Studio, Seattle, WA

August 2018 – December 2019

  • Contributed wireframes, flows and visual assets to nine mobile app releases.
  • Ran 30 usability sessions and synthesised them into recommendations that raised task completion by 15 percent.
  • Built and maintained the studio's Figma component library, used across concurrent projects.

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Rhode Island School of Design, 2018

Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies, 2022

Quantitative UX Research certificate, 2021

Skills

Product design: Interaction design, Design systems, Prototyping, Information architecture, Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA)

Research: User interviews, Usability testing, Journey mapping, Survey design, Analytics review

Tooling: Figma, FigJam, Principle, HTML and CSS, React basics

Leadership: Design critique, Mentoring, Stakeholder management, Workshop facilitation, Roadmap planning