Hayden Salem

Currently: Lead Product Designer @ Reviver

Designing Scalable, Impactful User Experiences

I'm Hayden, a product designer who turns messy workflows and dense data into interfaces people actually want to use. I've led design end-to-end across automotive, e-commerce, education, and agency teams: research, systems, and shipped outcomes that move the metrics that matter.

8+
Years experience
70%
Peak activation lift
Insights per session

Companies I've worked with

Reviver Reviver
Mayan Mayan
4insite 4insite
SAM SAM
Catapult K12 Catapult K12


Skills & Tools

Strategy & Research

UX Strategy Product Thinking Journey Mapping Personas & JTBD Behavior Analytics Usability Testing A/B Testing

Design Execution

End-to-End Design Information Architecture Prototyping Responsive Design Visual Hierarchy Design Systems User Flows Microinteractions UI Composition Conversion Design Accessibility (WCAG 2.2)

Collaboration

Agile Collaboration Stakeholder Alignment
Figma Framer Notion Zoom Claude ChatGPT

Experience

Lead Product Designer · Reviver
May 2024 – Present
Senior Product Designer · Reviver
Jul 2023 – May 2024
Senior UX/UI Designer · Mayan
Oct 2021 – Jul 2023
Product Designer · 2Leaf
Jan 2020 – Oct 2021
UX/UI Designer · Hayden Consulting
Remote · May 2018 – Jan 2020
Product Designer · Catapult K12
Roseville, CA · May 2017 – May 2018
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Your Questions, Answered

The questions hiring managers and collaborators usually ask first.

Complex, data-heavy B2B products: fleet management, onboarding flows, and internal dashboards, where the real challenge is turning dense operational data into clear, actionable interfaces. Recent work spans automotive fleet tech, e-commerce automation, and AI-guided analytics.

Four phases: Define (align on the real problem with research and stakeholders), Ideate (sketch and flowchart multiple directions), Design (low-fi to high-fi in Figma), and Validate (usability testing before handoff). I stay close to engineering throughout so what ships matches what's designed.

Yes, it's built into the process, not outsourced. For Mayan I ran surveys and interviews with 40 sellers before touching a wireframe; for the Reviver dashboard I worked directly from support tickets and fleet manager interviews. I'd rather validate a hunch with a handful of real users than debate it in a meeting.

As an embedded design lead, not a downstream resource. I partner with PMs to scope what's actually feasible, and with engineers early to understand technical constraints before designing around them. That's how projects like the Reviver dashboard shipped in two weeks with a single engineer.

Site Pulse. Leadership wanted a pure chat interface; my research showed that would slow managers down in the field. I built three concepts spanning that disagreement, tested them head-to-head, and let the data settle it instead of opinions. It became the blueprint the company now uses for every AI feature.

I lead with business outcomes, not just interfaces. Every case study on this site ships with a measurable result, because I treat design as a lever for the metrics leadership actually cares about: activation, support load, compliance, conversion.

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