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Paul Haupt

@paulhaupt

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Cognitive design leader + maker / breaker of things.

United States

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What I'm looking for

Cognitive design leader looking for my next opportunity to innovate and build best-in-class product design teams

Driven by constant curiosity, I put things together, tear them apart, and refine / re-architect them to be smarter, more accessible, intuitive, usable, and have a purpose. Ultimately, my goal is to help make people’s lives better through innovation. I’m passionate about humanizing design — holistically building intelligent products from the ground up or improving existing ones. I focus on the psychology of the user experience, human cognition and the streamlining of human-computer interactions supported through extensive testing and user research — creating a bridge between technology, people and human capabilities. I have extensive experience building, leading, mentoring, and developing global multidisciplinary design teams. I express my fascination with good design through collaborating with like minds to solve complex problems for good. A strategist by nature, I’m equal parts future-thinker, humanist, technologist, data advocate, and student of systems design logic. I love a good challenge.

Experience

VP of Product Design

AlphaSense

Jul 2022 - May 2024 (1 year 10 months)

Played an integral role in coordinating across the Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, and GTM teams — delivering a world-class user experience across all touchpoints. Evangelized the prioritization of product design excellence and partnered with cross-functional teams in product, engineering, and testing at every stage and facet of product development.

Director of Product + Experience Design

ADT

Jul 2019 - Jul 2022 (3 years)

Established + directed the experience design of smart home technology software and hardware across multiple applications and platforms. Built + led a team of award-winning experience designers crafting best practice, omni-channel solutions for home security and future technologies in the IoT landscape leveraging AI.

Figma UX Product Design Team Building Design Direction UX Research Design Systems GenAI LLM Software Application AI Design Operations

Director of UX / UI

WizeHive

Dec 2014 - Jun 2019 (4 years 6 months)

Established experience + interface design solutions for WizeHive’s fully customizable, integrative online database platform, Zengine. Designed a highly configurable and intuitive portal system experience for our customers’ application- + review-centered processes around grant + scholarship management.

Product Design UX Design Systems Figma Team Building UX Research Agile

Head of Design

PeopleLinx

Nov 2013 - Dec 2014 (1 year 1 month)

Led experience + interface design for an enterprise-scale product for social selling which optimized social media to help businesses increase connections to customers + prospects. Crafted product UI focused on logical IA + design psychology for greater user adoption, retention, and conversion, while maintaining a highly functional and intuitive experience.