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