Top Talent like Anna are on Pangea

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Anna Mulamba

UX Designer
Available for hire fromNegotiable
Contracts
Experienced UX Designer | Spearheading Design Excellence
An experienced designer who's held various design roles, including Team Lead Senior UX Designer at Amazon Web Services, Product Designer II at Okta, and Product Designer at Rapid7. Notably, they played a key role in spearheading a cultural shift at Amazon Web Services, improving design standards across the organization. As a Founding Product Designer at DivvyCloud, they led design from ideation to production, influencing strategic product direction and contributing to the company's successful acquisition by Rapid7. Their experience showcases a strong focus on user research, design system development, and product strategy.

Work History

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Team Lead, Senior UX Designer, Payments

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Spearheaded a cultural shift that improved design standards org-wide by launching a design process, a peer-critique program, and design templates to use to ensure quality across designers and projects. Ran educational workshops for cross-functional stakeholders (product & engineering) about the role our newly formed design team would play in product development. Used research to identify pain points around making payments for AWS, resulting in a multi-project proposal for the North Star vision for AWS Payment. Manipulated AWS' existing design system to form a mini system Payments could use to work more efficiently. Created annual goals for the design team's success rooted in the Payments org and AWS success KPIs, and used that for Workload management and prioritization.
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Product Designer II, Security

OktaMay 2021 - Nov 2022 • 1 yr 7 mosDesigned and researched innovative authentication policy management and security experiences for the Security team. Operationalized an org-wide strategy to enhance design workload management using agile design, allowing design to play an equitable role in product strategy and development. Conducted user research both independently and in collaboration with our research partner to identify challenges for 0 to 1 products. Redesigned the Authentication Policy. Designed the Risk Ecosystem.
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Product Designer, Cloud Security

Rapid7May 2020 - Nov 2022 • 2 yrs 7 mosJoined Rapid7 as part of DivvyCloud through an acquisition, but remained on the DivvyCloud team; Cloud Practice. Collaborated with Rapid7's design team to make DivvyCloud's user interface consistent with the Rapid7 suite of products. Teamed up with developers to ensure that every component of the DivvyCloud design system was seamlessly connected with the corresponding components of the Rapid7 Design System, allowing for a smooth transition to being uniform with Rapid7. United with Rapid7's research team to conduct studies to understand DivvyCloud's user base and their requirements for future products.
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Founding Product Designer

DivvyCloud (Acquired by Rapid7)Mar 2017 - May 2021 • 4 yrs 3 mosDivvyCloud is an enterprise cloud security company, Rapid7 acquired in 2020. As a solo designer, I lead design from ideation to production for all of DivvyClouds product and brand. Influenced strategic product direction by becoming deeply familiar with end-user workflows and the Cloud Security market space, resulting in collaborating closely with product to create a road map. Built and scaled a design system and Figma component library to unify cross-functional teams, which reduced development time by 40%. Conducted research that identified $1M engagement gap between DivvyCloud's largest customers and legacy tools. Redesigned all of DivvyCloud's legacy tools, resulting in 70% adoption by existing enterprise customers upon launch. Analyzed user feedback and data independently to identify areas of improvement and inform product decisions. Conducted Design QA with engineers to ensure experiences were implemented accurately and consistently. Scaled the team from 0-3 to execute vision. Contributed to DivvyCloud's successful acquisition.
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Design Intern

MtoM ConsultingJan 2017 - Mar 2017 • 3 mosnull

Education

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George Mason University

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology / Web Development and Multimedia / Art and Visual Technology
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General Assembly

Certificate, User Experience Design2018

How Pangea Works

Effortlessly discover top talent

We've distilled the candidate search from endless hours down to just a few minutes. Using Pangea's AI-powered search tools, you can find top fractional talent able to take on your next project. Our system looks at your company's niche and your needs to find the perfect match faster than any traditional hiring platform.

Start working with talent today

The top talent on Pangea is ready to get started with you right now. You can message or hire a candidate right from their profile page and start assigning work as soon as they respond. And the best part? Pangea's fractional contract structure lets you start small and ramp up as your needs change, keeping your costs manageable and your team's capabliities flexible.

Track work and invoices in one place

Assign tasks, track progress, and complete invoices all on Pangea. We've combined every part of the hiring process into one platform to eliminate the miscommunication that's unavoidable on other freelance platforms. We even send out 1099s to your contractors at the end of the year!

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Experienced UX Designer | Spearheading Design Excellence
An experienced designer who's held various design roles, including Team Lead Senior UX Designer at Amazon Web Services, Product Designer II at Okta, and Product Designer at Rapid7. Notably, they played a key role in spearheading a cultural shift at Amazon Web Services, improving design standards across the organization. As a Founding Product Designer at DivvyCloud, they led design from ideation to production, influencing strategic product direction and contributing to the company's successful acquisition by Rapid7. Their experience showcases a strong focus on user research, design system development, and product strategy.

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Top Talent like Anna are on Pangea

Pangea, a YC company, connects companies with fractional talent. Fractional hiring allows companies to move faster and work with more specialized talent, while giving talent more flexibility and independence. If you are talent open to fractional work, apply here. If you’re a company looking for high-quality fractional talent, learn more here.

Anna Mulamba

UX Designer
Available for hire fromNegotiable
Contracts

Work History

A

Team Lead, Senior UX Designer, Payments

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Spearheaded a cultural shift that improved design standards org-wide by launching a design process, a peer-critique program, and design templates to use to ensure quality across designers and projects. Ran educational workshops for cross-functional stakeholders (product & engineering) about the role our newly formed design team would play in product development. Used research to identify pain points around making payments for AWS, resulting in a multi-project proposal for the North Star vision for AWS Payment. Manipulated AWS' existing design system to form a mini system Payments could use to work more efficiently. Created annual goals for the design team's success rooted in the Payments org and AWS success KPIs, and used that for Workload management and prioritization.
O

Product Designer II, Security

OktaMay 2021 - Nov 2022 • 1 yr 7 mosDesigned and researched innovative authentication policy management and security experiences for the Security team. Operationalized an org-wide strategy to enhance design workload management using agile design, allowing design to play an equitable role in product strategy and development. Conducted user research both independently and in collaboration with our research partner to identify challenges for 0 to 1 products. Redesigned the Authentication Policy. Designed the Risk Ecosystem.
R

Product Designer, Cloud Security

Rapid7May 2020 - Nov 2022 • 2 yrs 7 mosJoined Rapid7 as part of DivvyCloud through an acquisition, but remained on the DivvyCloud team; Cloud Practice. Collaborated with Rapid7's design team to make DivvyCloud's user interface consistent with the Rapid7 suite of products. Teamed up with developers to ensure that every component of the DivvyCloud design system was seamlessly connected with the corresponding components of the Rapid7 Design System, allowing for a smooth transition to being uniform with Rapid7. United with Rapid7's research team to conduct studies to understand DivvyCloud's user base and their requirements for future products.
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Founding Product Designer

DivvyCloud (Acquired by Rapid7)Mar 2017 - May 2021 • 4 yrs 3 mosDivvyCloud is an enterprise cloud security company, Rapid7 acquired in 2020. As a solo designer, I lead design from ideation to production for all of DivvyClouds product and brand. Influenced strategic product direction by becoming deeply familiar with end-user workflows and the Cloud Security market space, resulting in collaborating closely with product to create a road map. Built and scaled a design system and Figma component library to unify cross-functional teams, which reduced development time by 40%. Conducted research that identified $1M engagement gap between DivvyCloud's largest customers and legacy tools. Redesigned all of DivvyCloud's legacy tools, resulting in 70% adoption by existing enterprise customers upon launch. Analyzed user feedback and data independently to identify areas of improvement and inform product decisions. Conducted Design QA with engineers to ensure experiences were implemented accurately and consistently. Scaled the team from 0-3 to execute vision. Contributed to DivvyCloud's successful acquisition.
M

Design Intern

MtoM ConsultingJan 2017 - Mar 2017 • 3 mosnull

Education

G

George Mason University

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology / Web Development and Multimedia / Art and Visual Technology
G

General Assembly

Certificate, User Experience Design2018

How Pangea Works

Effortlessly discover top talent

We've distilled the candidate search from endless hours down to just a few minutes. Using Pangea's AI-powered search tools, you can find top fractional talent able to take on your next project. Our system looks at your company's niche and your needs to find the perfect match faster than any traditional hiring platform.

Start working with talent today

The top talent on Pangea is ready to get started with you right now. You can message or hire a candidate right from their profile page and start assigning work as soon as they respond. And the best part? Pangea's fractional contract structure lets you start small and ramp up as your needs change, keeping your costs manageable and your team's capabliities flexible.

Track work and invoices in one place

Assign tasks, track progress, and complete invoices all on Pangea. We've combined every part of the hiring process into one platform to eliminate the miscommunication that's unavoidable on other freelance platforms. We even send out 1099s to your contractors at the end of the year!

Talk with a Talent Expert

Members of our team are available to help you speed through the hiring process.
Available Now
Book a Call
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