Courtney Sabo
Product Design Leader with a Decade of Experience
12 yrs experience · Seattle, WA · 10-20 hrs/week
About
Product design leader, product strategist, YC founder, and Forbes 30 Under 30. I have 12 years of experience creating ethical, accessible digital products that drive business impact and have transformed complex workflows into intuitive experiences for 100M+ users.
Skills
Experience
- Staff Product Designer and Partner · Pine Works2022-08-01 –
As a design partner at Pine Works, I work with companies of varying sizes and industries to transform their digital products and user experiences. Optimized registration user journey and information architecture, reducing flow from 12 to 2 clicks for millions of users across 40 countries. Built scalable design system, reducing design time by >50%.
- Director of Product Design · Untapped2023-01-01 – 2023-12-01
Led design for Series C tech early-in-career recruiting platform. Led growth design strategy through A/B testing and experimentation, increasing web signup conversion by 4x, profile completion by 36%, and job applications by 26%, as well as reducing CAC to <$5. Managed Design and Data Analytics teams, leading design ops efficiency efforts and new success metric definitions.
- Staff Product Designer · Untapped2021-11-01 – 2023-01-01
- Senior Product Designer · Untapped2021-03-01 – 2021-11-01
- Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer · Kopa2016-11-01 – 2022-02-01
Co-founded and led design for YC-backed, seed-stage rental marketplace. Led 0 to 1 product strategy and design, growing from 0 to 70 cities and to $100k ARR. Supported $1M seed round through deck and communication refinement.
- Senior Designer · Salesforce2017-02-01 – 2018-06-01
Led enterprise design projects within Salesforce's internal design agency. Led $M+ inclusive redesign of dental insurance platform serving 30M+ members, securing critical multi-million Medicaid contract. Conducted multilingual usability testing across US.
- Designer, Apple team · Sequence2016-01-01 – 2017-01-01
Delivered strategic design solutions for Apple's B2B and education initiatives. Delivered pixel-perfect UI designs and engineering documentation, resulting in renewed retainer contracts.
- Designer · Happy Cog2014-03-01 – 2016-01-01
Created digital experiences for global brands within award-winning digital design agency. Redesigned David's Bridal's mobile-first e-commerce experience.
- Design Research Assistant · Drexel University2012-06-01 – 2015-01-01
Create a database for the Polish Poster Collection, curate exhibition "Beyond the Big Top: The Art of the Polish Circus Poster", and edit entries for Bloomsbury’s Encyclopedia of Design (2015).
Education
- Drexel UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Graphic Design
- Bloomsburg High School
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