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Paige Saez

Senior Product Designer at Aurora Solar

Emeryville, California

Overview 

Paige Saez is a Senior Product Designer at Aurora Solar in Emeryville, California, known for leading the redesign of the HelioScope product line, resulting in a 30% increase in user engagement and for being an advocate for Sustainable Design. With a background in various leadership roles at companies like Cisco and All Turtles, Paige brings expertise in rapid prototyping, human-centered design, and user experience research to the renewable energy and SaaS industries.

Work Experience 

  • Senior Product Designer

    2023 - Current

    I spearheaded a multi-year effort at Aurora Solar to redesign the HelioScope product line, focusing on enhancing usability for scaling teams in global markets. By implementing user-centered design principles and collaborating with cross-functional teams, I successfully addressed critical usability issues and improved the overall user experience.

Aurora Solar is a SaaS company that uses aerial imagery to assess solar installation projects.

Raised $523,470,493.00 from Emerson Collective, Energize Capital, Coatue, ICONIQ Growth, Lux Capital and Fifth Wall.

  • Principal Product Designer

    2020 - 2022

  • Senior User Researcher

    2019 - 2020

All Turtles is an artificial intelligence studio that develops pragmatic brands, products, and user experiences for the workplace.

  • Lead Product Designer

    2017 - 2019

    Led ongoing product discovery workshops and quarterly inter-departmental design sprints with customers. Produced an inspiring north-star product vision prototype shared by leadership globally. Created user flows, wireframes, and final designs to help explore concepts, drive research, and validate alignment between user needs and business goals. Managed and mentored three junior designers.

Cisco DevNet is your source for everything developer at Cisco Systems.

  • Lead UX Designer

    2017 - 2017

    Guided product strategy, including discovery and definition, through user research with customers to validate hypothesis-driven product exploration. Created user flows, wireframes, final designs, and prototypes for product iterations.

Honeycomb provides full-stack observability for engineering teams to understand, debug, and improve production systems.

Raised $146,900,000.00 from Storm Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Dominik Richter, Headline, Guillermo Rauch, Insight Partners and Industry Ventures.

  • UX Design Director, Curriculum & Content Designer

    2015 - 2017

    First employee. Created the flagship Bootcamp program UX Academy and a new revenue stream. Increased new student enrollment by 5x revenue per student, resulting in a 10x increase in total annual revenue. Defined internal team processes and managed contract and vendor resources. Led company-wide rebrand in 2017. Built and managed a remote three-person product design and content team.

  • Senior UX Designer

    2014 - 2017

    Multiple contract roles including Intuit, Seagate, Fanatics, and Lattice for iOS/Android product design and responsive web design. Embedded onsite with product development teams for long-term engagements. Established product strategy, including discovery and definition through user research with customers. Created UX and visual design deliverables to explore concepts, drive research, and production-ready designs.

  • Senior UX Designer

    2014 - 2015

Sauce Labs provides cloud-based testing for mobile and web applications.

Raised $151,000,000.00 from TPG, TPG, TPG, Riverwood Capital, Adams Street Partners, Centerview Capital and IVP.

  • Senior UX Designer (Contract)

    2013 - 2014

  • Senior UX Designer

    2013 - 2013

    (Acquired by Facebook) Led discovery and definition for product feature sets to launch MVPs and inform further iterations. Turned concepts and ideas into product designs that addressed strategic and tactical goals and met end-user needs. Partnered with stakeholders to lead teams in product strategy and iterations.

Hot Studio is a design company that designs and builds digital products and services.

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