Ryan Parag

Staff Product Designer & Design Engineer · Tampa, FL

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I'm a product designer with a penchant for code, based in Tampa, FL 🌴. Currently, I lead the direct customer experience and design systems at Owens Corning.

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Experience

  • Owens Corning

    /Design Lead
    June 2024 - Present

    Tampa, FL

    • Lead product design strategy and user experience across digital enablement tools for direct customers, contractors, home builders, and homeowners.
    • Spearhead end-to-end design operations, aligning product leadership, engineering, and enterprise business units around unified UX standards.
    • Architect intuitive order management, calendar, and wholesale purchasing workflows, significantly reducing customer friction.

  • TrustLayer

    /Founding Product Designer
    April 2021 - June 2024

    Remote

    • Established the foundational design practice as the first designer, driving product design from zero-to-one through Series A funding.
    • Partnered with executive leadership, product management, and engineering to design automated AI workflows for insurance verification.
    • Scaled the core enterprise platform, implementing design systems that accelerated engineering delivery velocity and reduced onboarding friction.

  • Masonite

    /Senior Product Designer
    March 2019 - April 2021

    Tampa, FL

    • Designed connected IoT experiences for smart home door systems, integrating physical hardware with cloud-based digital platforms.
    • Streamlined complex e-commerce and home remodeling workflows for contractors and homeowners in emerging direct-to-consumer markets.
    • Collaborated with hardware and software engineering teams to establish cross-platform design guidelines.

  • Chargebacks911

    /Product Designer
    March 2016 - March 2019

    Tampa, FL

    • Led end-to-end UX for two legacy enterprise payment applications and launched one net-new SaaS product.
    • Created design systems, rapid prototypes, and user journeys across cross-functional engineering and executive teams.
    • Designed high-converting marketing experiences and landing pages that increased qualified web traffic by 400% and inbound leads by 250%.

  • Xcenda

    /Healthcare Data Analyst
    June 2013 - March 2016

    Tampa, FL

    • Executed quantitative analyses on complex pharmaceutical cost and outcomes datasets to drive strategic business forecasting.
    • Leveraged statistical modeling (SQL/R) to validate demographic, insurance, and population data for enterprise health reports.

Education

  • University of South Florida

    M.S. Certificate, Applied Biostatistics (2015 – 2016)

  • University of Central Florida

    B.S. Biology & B.S. Health Informatics (2008 – 2012)

Certifications

  • IBM

    Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner (2020)

  • IDEO

    Foundations in Design Thinking (2019)

Skills

Leadership

  • Product Strategy & Vision
  • Design Systems Architecture
  • Cross-Functional Alignment
  • User Research & Usability Testing
  • Information Architecture
  • Interaction & UI Design

Technical

  • Design Engineering
  • Front-End Architecture
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Quantitative Data Analysis
  • Workflow Automation
  • User Research

Tools

  • Figma
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • HTML/CSS/JS
  • Git
  • Node.js
  • SQL/Python/R
  • Claude
  • Miro / FigJam