Devon Peet
Staff Product Designer | Systems Thinker | Customer Advocate
Summary
Product Designer with a decade of experience leading end-to-end design for complex B2B SaaS. A cross-disciplinary product designer with front-end development expertise, translating research, user needs, and technical constraints into insight-driven, impactful solutions. Fosters strong collaboration across design, product, and engineering to deliver exceptional user experiences.
Experience
Lead Product Designer & Founder
Remote
- For product agency Radial Ventures, led design of United Way of Buffalo & Erie County's crisis-first 211 app (iOS/Android) covering ~7,000 local providers: research, design system, and a tested Expo prototype (started in Bolt), through App Store submission.
- Reframed the product around self-service after research showed 96% of 211 contacts were phone calls; designed a "How can we help?" home with need-based categories.
- Own the UX and redesign direction for a law firm's intake and conflict-check app, built to end manual re-keying into a legacy system.
Staff Product Designer
Remote
Apr 2021 - Oct 2026
Remote
- Founding product designer across the product, admin tooling, and AI features as ARR grew from ~$300K to ~$3M; led a second designer from 2021.
- Made the case for ArovyAI and ArovyMCP, from research and a streaming chat prototype to production code. Designed the eval harness, a 202-case set comparing model, reasoning effort, and cost across releases to anticipate customer friction.
- Built a custom graph engine after a 3-month engineering effort stalled; customer graphs that froze and crashed the old library now load in seconds at 120fps (3,314 nodes).
- Shipped an internal Customer Success dashboard joining Salesforce, Pendo, and production data; it became the CS team's homepage.
- Built Sonar's first design system, then wrote the Arovy rebrand directly into production code (tokens, typography, 227-file rollout); grounded decisions in Pendo/Amplitude data and customer interviews.
Senior User Experience Designer
Remote
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
Remote
- Championed migration from Sketch/InVision to Figma, enhancing cross-functional collaboration and saving 20k in annual costs.
- Initiated the development of a comprehensive Design System aimed at unifying the user experience across ArisGlobal's diverse product suite.
- Redesigned core search and library experiences for a new Document Management System, improving information discovery and usability.
Co-Founder - Marketing, Operations Manager, Developer
Atlanta, GA
Jan 2019 - Feb 2024
Atlanta, GA
- Developed custom internal tools (Python, Airtable) for inventory, taplist management, and sales forecasting, applying technical skills to solve operational business problems.
- Created and launched a customer loyalty program ("Mug Club"), enhancing engagement and generating $10K ARR.
- Directed comprehensive marketing programs, managing branding, social media, content creation, merchandise, and contractor relationships.
Apr 2018 - Apr 2020
Atlanta, GA
- Drove design initiatives spanning discovery, concepting, and implementation during a period of rapid growth ($15M to $50M ARR).
- Redesigned tactic analytics interface, resulting in a 42% reduction in time-on-page and enabling customers to more effectively demonstrate ROI.
- Developed a novel sales intelligence tool tying together the analytics product with insights integrated into Salesforce, driving alignment between Sales and Marketing efforts and contributing directly to over $250K in revenue uplift.
UX Engineer
San Francisco, CA
May 2016 - Aug 2017
San Francisco, CA
- Contributed to the Salesforce Lightning Design System by researching and designing animation guidelines.
- Championed process changes that improved the Lightning Design System team's workflow.
Graduate Research Assistant
Atlanta, GA
Aug 2016 - Dec 2016
Atlanta, GA
- Conducted research focused on designing user interfaces for complex, expert military flight and mission planning applications.
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
4.0 GPA - Highest Honors
2016 - 2018
MS Human-Computer Interaction
Georgia Institute of Technology
3.6 GPA - Highest Honors
2011 - 2015
BS Computational Media
Minor in Computing & Business - Denning Technology & Management Program