Zach Baker
Eight-plus years in product design, focused on consumer marketplaces and the B2B tools that run them.
Experience
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.
Education
California Polytechnic University
BFA in Art & Design / Graphic Design
Skills
- 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
Tools
- Figma
- Jira
- LogRocket
- Tableau
- Claude Code
- Storybook
- After Effects
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- InDesign
- Logic Pro
- Ableton Live
- Usertesting.com
- Typeform
Contact
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!