Résumé / Kaustubh Menon

Product Designer · Design Engineer

Vancouver, Canada · Email · LinkedIn · GitHub · CodePen

Profile

Product Designer and Design Engineer with 8+ years of experience turning complex SaaS workflows into clear, production-ready interfaces. I work across product strategy, information architecture, interaction design, design systems, prototyping, frontend implementation, and design QA—partnering closely with product and engineering from problem framing through release.

Experience

2017–2025

Later

Senior Product Designer

Designed complex SaaS workflows across messaging, content management, creator tools, and reusable interface systems.
Translated product requirements into information architecture, interaction models, prototypes, high-fidelity UI, and reusable patterns.
Partnered with product and engineering through implementation and interface-quality review.
Contributed to private Later repositories alongside product-design responsibilities from 2017–2024.

2022–2024

Spexi

Lead Product Designer · Contract

Led product design for the pilot side of a distributed drone-imagery network, connecting mission discovery, preflight safety, automated capture, upload verification, and rewards.

2014–2016

SOTC Travel

Senior UI/UX Designer · Frontend implementation

Designed and implemented digital travel experiences.

2011–2013

CastleCS

Web UI Designer · Frontend implementation

Designed and built web interfaces for client products.

Selected systems and implementation evidence

Later Product Design SystemPublic guidance across foundations, variables, component anatomy, and product application.Simply Stakeholders Design SystemFigma system spanning visual foundations, reusable components, interaction states, and page-level product patterns.Animation LibraryPublic CSS/SCSS motion utilities with a live demo and 100+ GitHub stars.Portfolio Design OSResponsive React and TypeScript implementation developed through an AI-assisted workflow.

Core capabilities

ProductProduct strategy · Complex workflows · Information architecture · Interaction design · Prototyping · Usability evaluation

SystemsFoundations · Components · Patterns · Documentation · Accessibility · Design QA

ImplementationHTML · CSS/SCSS · JavaScript · React · TypeScript · Git · AI-assisted frontend development

CollaborationProduct and engineering partnership · Stakeholder alignment · Design reviews