Ryan CoughlinMainer, designer, and fly fishing fanatic

Principal designer. I work with founders to get a product idea into customers' hands. At Reprise I own the product, the brand, and how we tell the story.

Experience

Reprise

Helping users tell better stories with their software.


Principal Designer (Feb 2024 - Present)

  • Work directly with the founders; sole designer, owning design, brand, and marketing.
  • Own design for the whole product, 0 to 1 work included, and ship it myself.
  • Build agentic-first systems for enterprise teams.

Waii

Acquired by Salesforce. World's first generative AI-powered SQL API for seamless text-to-SQL integration and no-code analytics.


Design Advisor (part-time) (Dec 2023 - Jul 2024)

  • Provide strategic design feedback, guiding co-founders and engineering teams in aligning product capabilities with market needs.
  • Lead ideation and validation workshops, translating user feedback into actionable UX improvements.
  • Analyze user feedback and provide UX recommendations on what to address and why.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally, ensuring UX/UI enhancements align with technical capabilities and customer needs.

Robin

Streamlining workplace management with user-friendly booking systems and analytics.


Director of Design – Sr. Director of Design (Sep 2020 - Feb 2024)

  • Shaped product vision through a strategic shift to solve for hybrid work and contributed to design delivery—grew MAU by 18% and established first engagement loops.
  • Built a distributed team of 8 designers, professional development, and operations.
  • Led and re-designed booking and scheduling products across 5 platform; system thinking

Design Lead (Mar 2018 - Sep 2020)

  • Led a team of 4 designers through a strategic shift in business direction—company grew from single to multi-product.
  • Designed an indoor map platform, a core product offering used across all 8 platforms.
  • Led and designed a floor plan management product for workplace admins, consumer-friendly CAD software; supported self-managed roll-outs.

Product Designer (Jul 2017- Mar 2018)

  • Joined as the second designer; worked with co-founders to solve immediate problems and learned to define product vision and pitch decks.
  • Designed in-office kiosk experiences to help employees navigate the workplace.
  • Brought core functionality to Google and Microsoft platforms, enabling the company to sell to enterprises.

thoughtbot

Accelerating company growth from ideation to launch with strategic design and development


Product Designer (Oct 2014 - Jul 2017)

  • Led end-to-end product launches for pre-seed and early-stage start-ups. Included technical implementation.
  • Mentored co-founders and designers to create user-focused products with validated product market fit.

MojoTech

A fintech consulting and financial software development agency.


Product Designer (Mar 2012 - Sep 2014)

Designed conceptual experiences for skunk works teams and deliver impactful portions of those concepts to market.

Education

Champlain College (2006 - 2010)

Bachelor, Web Design and Development