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Joshua Hailpern

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Serial Chief Product Officer and Strategic Design Leader with 15+ years of results.

United States

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What I'm looking for

Seeking Fractional/Full-time Head of Design/Product role to leverage expertise in driving product innovation, UX & design excellence. Eager to lead talented teams, shape product vision & roadmap, collaborate cross-functionally, and deliver impactful solutions in a dynamic, growth-focused environment.

Serial Chief Product Officer and Strategic Design Leader with 15+ years of results, setting strategic vision to guide impactful product innovation, and elevating user experience by fostering design excellence, customer centric roadmap prioritization and leading diverse teams. Known for proactively spearheading product and design initiatives that directly boost business outcomes by creating engaging product features, improving user satisfaction, and elevating brand identity. Brings deep expertise in design strategy, product lifecycle management, and boosting user engagement. A proven track record of fostering cultures focused on solving real-world problems to drive organizational success. Excels at turning complex ideas into intuitive and engaging product/service experiences. Adept at translating complex concepts into compelling visual narratives. Seeking to leverage multi-disciplinary background across user research, design, product management, and entrepreneurship to make valuable executive contributions as a product and design leader.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Head of Design

Neo.tax

Feb 2022 - Apr 2024 (2 years 2 months)

Reporting directly to the CEO as a member of the executive staff, I led the design team, making significant contributions to Neo.Tax's growth and success, as stated by customers. My innovative UI/UX strategies and designs played a pivotal role in differentiating Neo.Tax, as cited by Thomson Reuters during their investment.

Strategy UI UX Design User Research Product Management

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Founder

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Ugly Duckling Consulting

Feb 2017 - Present (8 years 4 months)

I founded a B2B consulting company believing that all ugly ducklings can become swans. UDC focuses on providing strategic advice on business, product management, UI/UX, brand, and visual design.

Strategic advice Branding Business Consulting UI UX Design Visual Design Product Management

Chief Executive Officer & Chief Product Officer , President and Founder

Kleeen Software

Jun 2018 - Feb 2022 (3 years 8 months)

Served as CEO and CPO, driving strategic direction, product innovation, and securing $5.3M in venture funding. My leadership and focus on agile methodologies, allowed our UI/UX automation platform to provide 75% faster time to release and 85% lower development costs for our diverse customer base.

Product Management Engineering Design

Head of Technology/Product and Co-Founder

Kleeen Studio, LLC

May 2017 - Dec 2021 (4 years 7 months)

I established a thriving design and development studio that generated over $4M in annual revenue. Our team's innovative solutions and strategic contributions played instrumental roles in our clients' successes, including Cumulus Networks' acquisition by Nvidia, Lacework’s Series D funding, unifying HPE Aruba’s brand with their product UI and designing HPE Aruba’s new website design and blog voice.

Branding Product Strategy Frontend Development UI UX Design

Head of Design / Distinguished Technologist

Niara / HPE Aruba

Dec 2015 - May 2017 (1 year 5 months)

As the Head of Design at Niara (later Distinguished Technologist at HPE Aruba), I played a pivotal role in driving UI/UX innovation and strategic product initiatives that explicitly cited in us winning $10m+ bake-offs to high-profile clients such as Microsoft and NYSE, and subsequent successful acquisition.

Analytics Graphic Design UI UX Design Cybersecurity

Chief Research Scientist | Innovation & Advanced Technologies Group

HPE ArcSight

Nov 2014 - Dec 2015 (1 year 1 month)

Product managed, designed (UI/UX), and lead engineering (data science and software architect) forcurrent and future products and new software platform development. Further, evaluated startups forpotential acquisition by HPE ArcSight.

Startup evaluation Data Science Software Architecture UI UX Design Product Management

Research Scientist | Social Computing Group

HP Labs

Jun 2012 - Nov 2014 (2 years 5 months)

Created multiple award-winning research systems (prototype and internally deployed platforms) at the intersection of UI/UX, visual design, data science (AI, pattern mining, text analytics, and data modeling) leading two teams of developers. Functioned as project’s product manager, software architect, and researcher

AI Pattern mining Data Science Visual Design Text Analytics Data Modeling UI UX Design

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sep 2006 - Jun 2012 (5 years 9 months)

Focus: Human-Computer Interaction + Data Sciences Dissertation: Developing HCI Technology to Aid in Communication Research for Individuals with Impairments (a Language and Linguistics Perspective)

Human Computer Interaction HCI Technology Communication Research Data Science

Master of Science in Computer Science

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sep 2006 - Jun 2008 (1 year 9 months)

Focus: Human-Computer Interaction Master Thesis: The Spoken Impact Project: Using Audio & Visual Feedback to Impact Vocalization in Non-Verbal Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Human Computer Interaction Spoken Impact Project Audio & Visual Feedback Vocalization Autistic Spectrum Disorder