Hi, I’m Nick Post, a founding product designer with over 12 years of experience shaping design strategy and shipping high-impact products for early-stage startups and global organizations. I specialize in AI-first workflows, productivity tools, developer UX, and scaling design teams and systems. I bridge product vision with technical complexity and deliver elegant user experiences while coaching designers and building scalable design organizations.

Nick Post

Hi, I’m Nick Post, a founding product designer with over 12 years of experience shaping design strategy and shipping high-impact products for early-stage startups and global organizations. I specialize in AI-first workflows, productivity tools, developer UX, and scaling design teams and systems. I bridge product vision with technical complexity and deliver elegant user experiences while coaching designers and building scalable design organizations.

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Hi, I’m Nick Post, a founding product designer with over 12 years of experience shaping design strategy and shipping high-impact products for early-stage startups and global organizations. I specialize in AI-first workflows, productivity tools, developer UX, and scaling design teams and systems. I bridge product vision with technical complexity and deliver elegant user experiences while coaching designers and building scalable design organizations.

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Work Experience

Founding Product Designer at Sutro
September 1, 2024 - Present
Led the end-to-end redesign of Sutro 2.0, targeting a new enterprise customer profile and integrating advanced LLM capabilities. Created foundational agentic workflows translating product requirements into functional apps; collaborated closely with the CEO and engineering. Set up and managed a design partner programme and executed a company rebrand, including a Framer marketing site to reposition Sutro as an enterprise AI leader.
Senior Product Designer II at Productboard
June 1, 2023 - September 30, 2024
Led the redesign of a complex permissions system, improving customer control and security. Managed the design system guild, establishing a decentralized contribution model used by multiple teams. Mentored and coached other designers, participated in hiring and team development, and co-created company-wide product design principles.
Founding Product Designer at Orchestrate
April 1, 2022 - May 31, 2023
Modernised navigation and information architecture to improve usability of a data pipeline platform. Developed and implemented a product-led growth strategy. Built research operations to support continuous discovery and user feedback. Designed marketing assets and coordinated the Product Hunt launch.
Senior Product Designer at GitLab
September 1, 2019 - April 30, 2022
Designed and delivered value-stream analytics features, translating complex DevOps data into clear insights for users. Acted as interim Product Manager for nine months, defining roadmaps and leading a cross-functional team. Contributed to GitLab’s data visualization library and produced the GitLab Design Talks series on scaling high-quality design in remote teams. Mentored junior designers and participated in hiring.
Design Lead at Salesforce Ignite
February 1, 2016 - September 30, 2019
Hired, coached, and led a distributed team of four designers across EMEA. Shaped EMEA design strategy and quarterly roadmaps. Led complex transformation projects and managed relationships with key stakeholders.
Experience Designer at IBM iX
March 1, 2013 - January 31, 2016
Delivered end-to-end UX/UI projects for enterprise clients. Consulted on UX and ran design thinking workshops across multiple industries.

Education

MEng Chemical Engineering, 21 Hons at University of Birmingham
January 1, 2008 - January 1, 2012
A Levels at Yale College, Wrexham
January 1, 2006 - January 1, 2008

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Education