Paul Hanaoka
Senior Product Designer w/6+ years of people management experience
10 yrs experience · Bellingham, WA · <10 hrs/week
About
I try really hard to make things better than they are. 60% of the time, it works every time.
Skills
Experience
- Director of Design · Liferay01-01-2022 – 01-01-2024
- Led division of 40+ designers - Built Research capabilities and team - Brought data-informed approach into Product, Design Systems, and Brand
- Principal Designer · Liferay01-01-2021 – 01-01-2022
- Managed Product Design teams, grew and hired managers - Established Design Ops function - Evolved Design Systems from cost center to profit center
- Senior Product Design Manager · Liferay01-01-2019 – 02-01-2021
- With Liferays first VP of Design, established Design as a division with Brand and Product departments - Developed remote hiring and operating policies - Built consulting practice in APAC - Managed and hired internationally Brazil, Spain, and Japan
- UX Design Manager · Liferay11-01-2017 – 01-01-2019
- Designed MVP of our first SaaS product - Hired designers, designed growth framework for UX team - Made UX profitable, built consulting practice in NA - Designed and developed liferay.design
- Web Designer · Liferay08-01-2014 – 11-01-2017
Liferays first web designer hired to design and build pages to support our marketing efforts, I quickly grew my responsibilities to include all web properties, built Liferays first web style guide and hired my first two designers.
Education
- Dordt UniversityBachelor of Arts, Art / Business
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