Abby Walker

About Abby Walker

OPEN TO: discussing new opportunities for Senior Product Designer and Senior Visual Designer remote roles; also open to Lead Product Designer and Staff Product Designer roles depending on individual company hierarchies.*I transform complexity into clarity for scaling startups, using stunning visual design, diagnostic thinking, & user-centric Product Designer with 10+ years of experience leading end-to-end product and visual design across high-impact SaaS, fintech, and AI platforms. Expert in scaling 0→1 products, creating robust design systems, and driving user-centered strategies that elevate product quality, user adoption, and business performance. Known for combining high craft with strategic vision, owning full product suites, and thriving in fast-paced, cross-functional environments, with a knack for conflict management.My passion lies in the intersection of design & strategy, & I’m deeply committed to the positive impact that tech can have on people\'s lives. I believe that design is more than just aesthetics — it’s about crafting experiences that resonate, solve problems, & drive meaningful outcomes.Through thoughtful UX strategy & effective collaboration with team members, I help brands & products flourish. I want to bring the same sense of fulfillment & purpose to your team’s design process, helping to bring your vision to life with clarity, creativity, & precision ( & a lil humor).Oh, and by the way — if you’re ever in need of the best brownies you’ve ever had, I’m your person. I’m also deeply passionate about dog training & advocating for rescues, because making the world a little better for both people & pups is something incredibly important to me.If you\'re building something exciting & need a design partner who’s passionate about impact ( & brownies), let’s connect!

Experience

1. Senior Product Designer

   Benepass

   Jan 2025 — Present · Providence, RI, US

   Championing the evolution of Benepass’s design system, ensuring visual & functional consistency across a growing product suite while enabling design velocity & collaboration at scale; introduced user accessibility standards at a component level to ensure usability across wide user base.Leading end-to-end product design for Benepass’s web & mobile platforms, delivering intuitive, scalable user experiences that empowered companies to customize employee benefits in a remote-first world, & streamlined a complicated use-case into an easy-to-use platform.Leveraging AI-assisted tools to streamline design system workflows, including component audits, documentation generation, migration planning, & consistency checks, reducing manual effort while improving quality & scalability.Transforming complex, ambiguous problems into elegant design solutions, balancing business goals with user needs & crafting seamless experiences in the highly regulated fintech & HR space, while partnering cross-functionally & embedding design thinking into company strategy & influencing the roadmap through thoughtful advocacy & storytelling.Translating system guidance into practical developer & designer workflows through tools such as Storybook documentation, templates, & design plugins that embedded system standards directly into everyday work.Leading the development of a scalable design token architecture (primitive & semantic tokens), enabling theming, density variations, & extensibility across products.Partnering with engineering teams to operationalize token pipelines using modern tooling (e.g, CSS variables & token management systems), bridging design & code to create a robust foundation for cross-platform design consistency.Driving design system adoption across teams by identifying workflow friction & delivering enablement initiatives, including documentation, migration strategies, & usage guidance, that reduced rework & improved product consistency.

Education

• General Assembly

  Certificate, HTML, CSS, & Web Design

• Northeastern University

  Double Bachelor’s Degree, Interaction Design & Marketing