Strategic design leadership for complex ecosystems

Katy Harris is a product design executive and former founder who brings a rare blend of hands-on design craft, technical fluency, and team leadership. Her career spans front-end engineering, visualization design, startup founding, and design leadership across enterprise software, where she has helped shape products, teams, and strategy from early concept through scale.

Hybrid leadership

20+ years blurring the lines between design, engineering, product, and business leadership

Drive strategy for complex, enterprise, AI-enabled product ecosystems

Founding team member for two startups with one acquisition

Design leadership

Director-level design leader

Principal-level product designer with strengths in zero-to-one products, data visualization, and creative programming

Adjunct professor of information and interaction design

Writing and talks I’ve given lately at the intersection of design, business, innovation, entrepreneurship, and experimentation.

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