Sav Phillips

UserTesting · New York, NY

Senior Product Designer · UT Labs (internal startup) · Design engineering & agentic research · January 2026 – Present

• Design engineering: Leaning into a design engineering role backed by a strong systems design background and the ability to turn ideas directly into working code, shipping ~5 pull requests a week to the codebase of our ambiguous, 0-1 flagship product.
• Agentic research platform: Owned the end-to-end user research for Signal, an agentic research platform I designed and built enabling product managers to trigger automated workflows from aggregated research feedback, with an always-on research agent continuously monitoring research trends, company sentiment, and key feature signals.
• Product accessibility: Led end-to-end VPAT audit across 100+ flows, documenting usability and accessibility baselines in Notion to guide AI feature implementation and improve user experience.

User Interviews · New York, NY

Senior Product Designer · Designing research automation at scale · May 2022 – December 2025

• Scalable design systems leadership: Built and scaled Synthesis, a unified design system of 100+ reusable components, accelerating release velocity by 25%, reducing design-to-development friction, and creating consistency across 5+ product squads.
• End-to-end product ownership: Led design of 10+ cross-platform workflows for an international research platform running studies worldwide, boosting yearly completed research sessions by 155% (160K to 409K) and supporting ARR growth of 51% ($14M to $21.2M).
• Product copywriting: Own the product copy across my design work, writing and refining in-product content so complex, multi-step workflows read clearly without added documentation.
• Cross-functional product strategy: Collaborated asynchronously with Product, Engineering, and GTM teams to align product vision and roadmap with enterprise needs, shipping features that grew ARR and enterprise accounts by 15%.

Porsche · Atlanta, GA

Interaction Design Intern · Designing & auditing internal tools for dealership ecosystems · March 2021 – September 2021

• Design system foundation: Built Porsche's first internal design system library for the Customer Success team, standardizing components and patterns across U.S. dealer sites, accelerating iteration speed by 30% and improving cross-team consistency.
• Large-scale UX audit: Audited 450+ dealership websites for brand, accessibility, and information architecture consistency, synthesizing findings into scalable visual and IA guidelines later adopted for internationalization.
• Global brand alignment: Partnered with design and product stakeholders in Germany to unify digital touchpoints, ensuring a cohesive brand experience across regions and increasing adherence to brand standards across distributed dealer networks.
• Dealer experience optimization: Designed and shipped 10+ dealer-facing UX improvements across internal tools and web experiences, reducing friction in lead management and service workflows, improving task completion efficiency by 15%.

Georgia Institute of Technology · Atlanta, GA

Graduate Teaching Assistant · AI & cognitive science · August 2020 – May 2022

• AI & cognitive science: Supported AI and HCI courses at Georgia Tech by evaluating 100+ student papers, developing curriculum and mentoring 30+ students in user research and interaction design, and guiding 20+ projects to adopt evidence-based usability and product design practices that mirrored real-world development.

Rhymes with Reason · Atlanta, GA

Product Designer (Contract) · K-12 learning platform startup, concurrent with grad school · December 2020 – January 2021

• Visual design language creation: Established a cohesive visual design system and interaction patterns tailored to a K-12 audience, improving usability test success rates and ensuring 100% adherence to accessibility standards across classroom deployments.
• Cross-functional product collaboration: Partnered with engineers, educators, and stakeholders to deliver music-driven learning experiences, cutting iteration cycles by 20% and speeding classroom adoption.
• Student dashboard design: Co-designed and shipped a core student dashboard and 4 Depth of Knowledge (DOK) learning activities, improving lesson navigation clarity and reducing teacher setup time for 235K+ K-12 students nationwide.

Georgia Institute of Technology · Atlanta, GA

Master of Science in Human Computer Interaction

University of Georgia · Athens, GA

Bachelor of Science in Biology; Minor in Spanish