Zach Baker

Eight-plus years in product design, focused on consumer marketplaces and the B2B tools that run them.

StyleSeat

  • Lead Product DesignerDec 2023 – Jul 2026
  • Senior Product Designer IIDec 2022 – Dec 2023
  • Senior Product Designer IOct 2021 – Dec 2022
  • Product DesignerSep 2020 – Oct 2021
  • Led design across core B2B and B2C marketplace surfaces: client booking, search, and pro onboarding.
  • Pioneered an AI-assisted design-to-code workflow to uncover edge cases, product requirements, and pixel-perfect releasable code.
  • Operated end-to-end as the lead design voice: ran user research, conducted data analysis and insights, prototyping, product requirements, stakeholder presentations, and aided roadmap building.
  • Drove booking growth across the client funnel: redesigned the pro profile around how clients evaluate, and a single A/B test lifted new-client conversion 19%, worth roughly $306K a year.
  • Owned StyleSeat's design system in partnership with engineering, including token and component architecture and Storybook maintenance.

ProductPlan

  • Product DesignerAlso assisted with brand and landing-page design.
  • Improved B2B onboarding completion, product landing pages, branding updates, and design system management.
  • Ran user research, surveys, and prototypes to validate features ahead of development.
  • Partnered with product managers on ticket creation, sprint planning, and stakeholder presentations.

Mindbody

  • Visual DesignerAug 2019 – Oct 2019
  • Associate Visual DesignerJan 2018 – Aug 2019
  • Worked on UX/UI of enterprise features, branded websites, and future prototypes of the Mindbody app.
  • Assisted in UX research and motion design.
  • Standardized the Mindbody design system in Sketch, and then Figma, used to build every feature by the UX/UI team.
  • Worked with the lead engineering manager to update the Mindbody design system to comply with WCAG 2.0 accessibility standards.

Cal Poly ASI

  • Graphic DesignerMay 2016 – Aug 2017
  • Designed branding and materials for events held at the school.
  • Handled signage and any other design needs for the school's facilities.

Rosetta

  • Creative InternSummer 2017
  • Worked on branded materials for the agency itself.

California Polytechnic University

BFA in Art & Design / Graphic Design

  • Product design
  • UX research
  • UX writing
  • Information architecture
  • Interaction design
  • Visual design
  • Brand design
  • Design systems and tokenization
  • PM collaboration
  • Data analysis
  • Engineering collaboration
  • AI-assisted development
  • Figma
  • Jira
  • LogRocket
  • Tableau
  • Claude Code
  • Storybook
  • After Effects
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • InDesign
  • Logic Pro
  • Ableton Live
  • Usertesting.com
  • Typeform

I’m open to Product Design roles in the Bay Area or New York. If you’re hiring, or if you want to chat about design, reach out!