I’m Samantha Pede, but please feel free to call me Sam. I’m a product designer with more than 10 years of experience – specializing in user experience, user interface, and user research.
Over the past decade, I've collaborated with and helped drive the design process for clients across several industries and from startups to large enterprise organizations. Over the past 4+ years, I was a lead designer in the logistics domain on the Inventory, Fulfillment, and Shipping teams at Shopify. Most recently, I worked directly with the Senior Leadership Team as the project and design lead on an ambitious, CEO-initiative that got approved by the CEO, moved to build, and will have substantial merchant impact – revolutionizing how merchants fulfill their orders.
Additionally, I have a proven track record with:
Leading teams, projects, and design
Creating functional, beautiful designs that provide a great user experience and that can actually ship
Rapid-iteration with a focus on the right fidelity for the right phase of thinking
Conducting user research and translating data and user research into high quality designs that improve the user experience
Establishing design vision to inform where we should go and what value we can provide
Stakeholder management – keeping the right people involved and informed at the right times
Connecting business and user goals – because both are critical to success
Collaborating with cross functional teams to ensure we’re creating the right thing
On a personal note, I spend my free time with my family, exploring the mountains, remodeling my 100 year old house, gardening, cooking and baking, and watching movies. My husband and I also own and operate a bicycle and ski shop in Lander, Wyoming and we can often be found riding bicycles with our two sons.