YEAR
2024 – 2026
INDUSTRY
AI / Marketing Automation
ROLE
Design Lead
SCOPE OF WORK
Product, Brand, Design Systems, Leadership
TEAM
3 designers, PMs, CTO, CEO
LIVE LINK
AI Automation platform
About this project
An AI marketing automation platform that, when I joined, was sized for SMBs and starting to attract a different kind of customer — enterprise teams, multi-stakeholder buying, longer cycles. The two years that followed were a slow rotation of the whole product toward that audience, without alienating the one already paying.
The work spanned product, brand, and platform — onboarding, payments, and the AI agent surfaces businesses would trust with real budget. Founders set the direction; I owned the execution across surfaces and worked alongside engineering on the systems that made it scale.
The visual system carried most of the lift. A premium tier doesn’t earn its price tag on copy alone — the product has to feel like it belongs in the inbox of someone who’s used to enterprise tools. Restrained, structured, confident enough to charge for.

Overview
Design Lead for an AI platform for business automation. Owned product, brand, and AI platform strategy in partnership with the founders.

Context
A product priced for SMBs being asked to grow up — enterprise contracts, premium tier, AI agents businesses would trust with real money. Two years of repositioning, with the team
scaling underneath.

My role
Owned design end-to-end across product, brand, and platform. Partnered directly with founders on positioning. Set the visual system, ran the component library, and held the bar on high-stakes flows — payments, agents, onboarding.

Key decisions
Rebuilt onboarding around expectation-setting before tool-showing — users stopped churning before they activated. Refreshed the visual system for the premium tier without breaking the existing one. Designed a scalable component library for AI agents and marketplace surfaces — built once, deployed everywhere, no more design-as-bottleneck. Defaulted subscriptions to annual.
Outcome
~10%~ ARR growth (~$100K -> ~$1M). Trial-to-paid conversion nearly doubled (~21% -> ~39%). Weekly active paid users grew ~10%~ (~100 -> ~1,200+).
What I’d do differently
Lock the agent UX patterns earlier. We shipped a few one-off agent surfaces before the component system caught up, and retrofitting them cost more than designing them right the first time.
