CV

Alex Sulgrove
Principal Product Designer | UX Design & Architecture
Timnath, CO
asulgrove@gmail.com | alexsulgrove.com (PW: design123)

SUMMARY

Visionary Principal Product Designer with 15+ years of experience leading UX strategy and execution for enterprise infrastructure, cloud, security, and SaaS platforms. Expert in building and scaling design programs, driving cross-functional alignment, and delivering impactful solutions for complex technical domains. Proven ability to lead teams, define design systems, and partner with engineering to ship robust, user-centric products at scale.

CORE SKILLS

  • Design Leadership: Team building, mentorship, design ops, cross-functional influence

  • Systems Thinking: Design systems, process optimization, scalable UX frameworks

  • Technical Collaboration: Cloud, infrastructure, security, SaaS, AI/ML, open source

  • Product Strategy: Vision setting, 0→1 product development, customer engagement

  • Research & Validation: Mixed-methods research, usability testing, data-driven design

  • Tools: Figma, Dovetail, Full Story, Sketch, InVision, Axure, Adobe CC, Balsamiq

EXPERIENCE

Lead Product Designer
Inspectiv (March 2025 – Present)

  • Established and scaled a comprehensive design program as a solo designer for an AI-powered application security testing platform.

  • Defined UX vision, design systems, and research practices to accelerate product-market fit and engineering velocity.

  • Collaborated with leadership to align product strategy with customer needs and technical constraints.

Senior Manager, UX Design
Lacework (Feb 2023 – Aug 2024)

  • Led and mentored a team of 8+ senior/staff designers across a multi-cloud security platform serving Fortune 500 clients.

  • Drove cross-functional strategy with PM, Engineering, and Sales to deliver high-impact, scalable solutions.

  • Developed and implemented process improvements for design ops, increasing visibility and efficiency of UX work.

  • Acted as principal IC on strategic initiatives, including AI-driven threat detection and attack surface management.

Principal UX Designer
Lacework (June 2022 – Feb 2023)

  • Led design for critical 0→1 projects, from concept to launch, in cloud security and infrastructure management.

  • Advanced Lacework’s design system and research practices, improving consistency and usability across products.

Senior UX Designer
Automox (Sep 2021 – June 2022)

  • Led UX across multiple engineering teams for endpoint management SaaS, shipping features that improved admin efficiency and reduced support tickets.

  • Key contributor to design system and research teams, driving adoption of best practices.

Senior/Lead UX Designer
LogRhythm (Jan 2019 – Sep 2021)

  • Led design for all LogRhythm products, managing a team of designers and collaborating with R&D, Product, and Customer Success.

  • Developed a 1–3 year UX roadmap, aligning design with business and technical goals.

  • Owned design operations, tool selection, and agile process adoption.

UX Designer
LogRhythm (Feb 2017 – Jan 2019)

  • Led UX for Threat Lifecycle Management, building a user-centered design process from the ground up.

  • Conducted research, facilitated cross-team alignment, and delivered iterative design solutions.

Lead UX Architect
Hewlett Packard Enterprise – Software Defined & Cloud (Sep 2015 – Feb 2017)

  • Translated complex infrastructure requirements into intuitive cloud management workflows (CloudSystem, Helion OpenStack).

  • Led user research, validation, and open-source community engagement on multiple OpenStack projects.

  • Mentored junior designers and managed UX acceptance in agile delivery.

Lead UX Architect
HPE Services (Feb 2014 – Aug 2016)

  • Led UX for the Rhode Island DMV modernization, establishing UX strategy and lean processes for a statewide transformation.

UX Designer
Hewlett Packard Servers Group R&D (Aug 2012 – Jan 2014)

  • Designed HP OneView, collaborating with engineering on modern IT management tools.

UX Design Intern
Hewlett Packard Printing Group (Jun 2011 – Aug 2011)

  • Led information architecture for WebJet Admin, collaborating with cross-disciplinary design teams.

UX Designer
Glerb (May 2010 – Aug 2012)

  • Designed interactions and maintained design systems for an E-Learning platform.

EDUCATION

  • M.S. Human-Computer Interaction Design, Indiana University Bloomington, 2012

  • B.S. Informatics, Indiana University Bloomington, 2010

PUBLICATIONS & PATENTS

  • Patent:

    • Security Graph for Attack Surface Management (Lacework, Provisional Patent Co-Inventor, April 2024)

  • Publications:

    • DigiSwitch: Design and Evaluation of a Device for Older Adults to Preserve Privacy While Monitoring Health at Home, SIGHI’10

    • Design Arguments – Examination of How Designers Argue for Their Designs, HCID-2012-003

    • Contributor, ACM Interactions Magazine, Vol. 21, Issue 1, 2014