Resume
David Allison
Senior Product Designer
“David punches above his weight. You wouldn't expect someone with his level of experience to make the impact that he does. He is particularly good at the fundamentals. If you have a chance for him to join your team, you should jump on it now because he will undoubtedly provide more value than you are expecting.”
Rusty Smith
Head of Design, One Identity
Experience
Senior UX Designer
June 2025 — Present
Flexera · Remote
End-to-end UX for Flexera One — the company's flagship SaaS platform for ITAM and FinOps. 50,000+ customers. 30-person design org.
- Led discovery, ideation, and delivery on complex enterprise workflows — breaking down large problems into scoped, validated solutions.
- Dedicated research and design system teams — working within a highly structured, mature design culture.
- Design-to-code fidelity — working through an atomic design system in Figma Make, partnering directly with UI engineers.
Senior Product Designer
March 2022 — June 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos
One Identity · Remote
Enterprise IAM & PAM software used by 80 of the Fortune 100.
- New SaaS product with ML — led end-to-end design from concept to delivery, enabling industry-first automation in identity management.
- Created the company's first Design System — adopted across 4 product lines, reducing design-to-development handoff time.
- Chat-enhanced troubleshooting — guided error resolution, reducing support tickets by ~15%.
- User View — ML-powered risk scoring across thousands of enterprise users, most significant product update in three years.
- Cmd+K navigation — command-palette that reduced task completion time for power users.
- Research ops — automated participant recruitment with Power Automate.
Digital Consultant → Manager
April 2017 — March 2022 · 5 yrs
WSX Enterprise · Dorset
Dorset Growth Hub. Government-funded (ERDF). Consulted 3,000+ businesses on UX strategy and digital transformation.
- Rapidly understood diverse business models and delivered actionable recommendations.
- Delivered weekly UX workshops and built digital infrastructure including event automation and online learning.
Multimedia Specialist
November 2014 — May 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos
Babcock International · Defence College of CIS
Digital training for military personnel — BAE Systems, MOD, Army/RAF.
Side Projects
AI City
aicity.devFrictionless marketplace where businesses hire specialised AI agents to complete tasks.
- Researched, designed, and built the full SaaS platform as a solo founder.
- Credits-based billing, smart routing, quality gates, sandbox execution.
- Deep AI ecosystem integration — CrewAI, LangGraph, AutoGen, Google ADK, OpenAI.
- Built with Next.js, Hono, Turborepo, Neon Postgres, Drizzle ORM, Stripe, and Vercel using Claude Code CLI.
Emerged
emerged.appProduct discovery platform helping new digital products get found.
- Multi-dimensional recommendation engine using high-dimensional vector embeddings.
- AI-powered features: automated descriptions (Claude), semantic search (OpenAI), automated scraping (Apify).
- End-to-end product ownership — market research, brand, UX/UI, marketing, full-stack development.
plana
Co-Founded & Product Designer. Profitable SaaS. Exited 2022.
- Collaborative business planning software for financial consultants and business owners.
- Co-founded, designed, and shipped a profitable SaaS product — full design-thinking process from user research through to delivery.
Education
BA Multimedia, Animation & The Web
Anglia Ruskin University, 2014