Elena Voss
Staff Product Designer | Design Systems | Design Engineering
About
Staff product designer with a decade shipping design systems and product craft for developer and productivity tools. I partner with engineering and research to turn ambiguous problems into clear, accessible interfaces—and I still love polishing the last 10%.
Experience
Staff Product Designer
Northwind Labs
2023-04 – Present · San Francisco, CA
Lead designer for the platform design system used by 40+ product squads. Established contribution model, accessibility gates, and a shared Figma + React token pipeline that cut UI thrash by half.
Senior Product Designer
Orbit Works
2020-02 – 2023-03 · San Francisco, CA
Owned end-to-end experience for the core workspace product: onboarding, collaboration, and permissions. Ran discovery with power users and shipped a redesign that lifted activation 18%.
Product Designer
Bright Harbor
2017-06 – 2020-01 · Remote
Designed mobile and web flows for a B2B productivity suite. Partnered with research on diary studies and built a component library that became the team’s default shipping surface.
Projects
Projects
Atlas Design System
ViewOpen contribution model, documented patterns, and React wrappers that scaled design quality across a multi-product org.
- Design Systems
- Figma
- React
Workspace Activation Redesign
ViewRebuilt first-week experience with progressive disclosure and guided setup—activation +18% in controlled rollout.
- Product
- Research
- Growth
Education
Rhode Island School of Design
BFA, Graphic Design
2013 – 2017