Ezra shelton Staff Product Designer

Segment Design Lead / Staff Product Designer

Sonatype

Jan 2024 - Current (2 years 8 months)

• Led design for two products across 12 development teams, representing design at the director level; work contributed to $5.5M in ARR secured within 9 months of a 2025 launch and a successful new product launch in 2026. • Drove the 2025 launch of the company's Cloud offering, completing a full SaaS product suite, as design lead on 3+ strategic 2024 launches. • Built an AI-native design practice beyond chat-window prompting: custom agents, micro-apps, skills, and MCP-based workflows, including the company's first internal ChatGPT agents grounded in user research. • Ran biannual multi-product WCAG assessments with custom AI agents and shipped front-end code to raise rubric scores, cutting assessment time from days to hours. • Supported the c

Senior Product Designer / Researcher

Sonatype

Jan 2022 - Jan 2024 (2 years 1 month)

• Lead designer for a product as its teams grew from four to six, driving design from discovery through implementation of new features. • Designed the company's first B2B SaaS product in the Software Composition Analysis space. • Built coded prototypes with real data that engineers could take forward, closing the gap between design intent and production implementation. • Collaborated cross-functionally to create and test a scalable design system with consistent interaction patterns spanning four products. • Established the company's product research foundations and resource library, including a scalable tagging taxonomy in Dovetail for consistent data collection.

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UX Researcher / Designer

Conscious App

Jan 2022 - Jan 2023 (1 year 1 month)

• Designed MVP user flows and ran user research to validate product direction for a web and mobile startup.

Product Designer

Sonatype

Jan 2021 - Jan 2022 (1 year 1 month)

• Embedded within a developer team to deliver user flows, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes; ran user research and stakeholder reviews to define requirements for new features.

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UX Researcher / Designer

Racket Music

Jan 2020 - Jan 2021 (1 year 1 month)

• Supported feature design through user research, prototyping, and developer collaboration.

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