Curtis Lee

Senior Product Designer with nearly 10 years of experience delivering impact across SaaS, B2B, and B2C products. Proven track record of partnering with founders, engineering and product leadership to shape roadmaps, mentor designers, and optimise cross-functional workflows. Expert in building scalable design systems, facilitating Design Sprints, and leveraging MCP-driven workflows.

Freelance Senior Product Designer at Self-Employed (2025-06 – Present)

• Service Offering: I help companies validate ideas, shape products, and move faster with tailored AI workflows and a deep understanding of business and users.

Product Design Consultant at Visibly (2025-06 – 2026-09)

• Enterprise Delivery: Designed and shipped complex compliance software solutions for high-profile enterprises, including Danone, Domestic & General, Hitachi, and IKEA.
• Design System Architecture: Built and launched a scalable design system, drastically accelerating design-to-development cycles while ensuring product-wide visual and behavioural consistency.
• Technical Infrastructure: Integrated the design system with Storybook to bridge the gap between design and code, establishing a unified source of truth for engineering teams.
• Workflow Innovation: Created a prototyping infrastructure using MCP-assisted workflows, enabling rapid feature experimentation and validation without fragmenting design quality.

Senior Product Designer (Promoted January 2025) at Zen Educate & Zen Locum (2022-12 – 2025-06)

• International Growth Strategy: Partnered with PMs to conduct user research and execute design strategy for Zen Educate's US expansion, successfully scaling the platform across new states and school districts.
• Cross-Platform Design System: Spearheaded the creation of a unified design system using a tokenised component architecture, ensuring seamless visual and functional consistency between the web platform and native mobile apps.
• End-to-End SaaS Delivery: Owned product discovery, user testing, and feature prioritisation for key enterprises, including the US absence management system and the UK vetting platform.
• Funnel Optimisation: Redesigned the native mobile application's top-of-funnel candidate experience, delivering high-impact updates to the user onboarding, first-land welcome flows, and vetting compliance funnels.
• Design Operations & Process: Scaled internal output and design impact across multiple product functions by establishing standardised workflows, introducing closer design and engineering partnerships and mentoring junior design staff.

Product Designer at nuom (2021-03 – 2022-12)

• Workshop Facilitation: Co-led client Design Sprints and produced rapid prototypes, enabling companies to validate market fit, mitigate risk, and establish actionable product strategies.
• Service Design & Revenue: Launched a Webflow development service, managing end-to-end delivery from discovery workshops through to responsive front-end execution and CMS training.
• System & Process Standardisation: Engineered an internal Webflow style system, component library, and technical documentation, scaling build speeds while standardising development quality.

Junior Product Designer at Leaf Software (2019-02 – 2021-03)

Online Teacher at Skillshare (2018-09 – 2019-01)

• “Teacher To Watch” recognition

Student Intern / Junior Designer at Strafe Creative (2017-10 – 2018-08)

Graphic Design Intern at Kind (2017-07 – 2017-08)

First Class Honours | BA (Hons) Digital Media Design in Digital Media Design – Nottingham Trent University