Mike Kenny
Product Design leader in Brooklyn, New York, he/him
About
I am a product design leader with a range of experience from small, early stage start-ups to working with FAANG/MAANG companies to explore new terrain.
In recent years, I've been focused on the challenges of scaling design teams while balancing Lean UX and Human-centered Design principles. Roles that demand a deeply collaborative approach with engineering are right in my sweet spot.
Work Experience
Leading Platform design at Justworks. We are pursing a mission to make it refreshingly simple to design, build, and deliver products quickly across a seamless Justworks. This includes efforts to continuously improve the cohesion of the experience to ensure customers encounter a familiar, high-quality product at every point in their journey.
Scaled design from a 4 person team to a 15 person team of design, research, and content pursuing a shared mission through process, ethos, and design systems. I managed both contributor and manager roles.
During my time leading the team we built the company from early paid product to rapid growth and an exit via aquistion.
Led Product, Design, and Data Science teams as interim leader while a new VP of Product was hired.
Reported to CEO and managed a larger, cross-functional team.
Led a team of four designers across all partner publishing product design work. Serve as skillset lead for Research + Insights and UX Writing practices.
Contractual role to lead user research and early product development inititatives with a FAANG company.
Managed and scaled UX team of 25 designers collaboratively with Product Design management team. Built and evolved capabilities in design research, service design, and integration with industrial design.
Notable clients inclused high profile and award winning work for Bloomberg and the BBC.
Provided mentorship and led interaction design work across multidisciplinary projects, bridging industrial and digital design.
Acquired by Accenture Interactive
A role that combined product ownership, interaction design, business analysis, and user research. In my time, I helped introduce several process evolutions and new practices to deliver on increasingly ambitious product work.
Notable clients included Spotify, Google, and HP.