Hayley Hughes is a design leader with 15+ years crafting sustainable UX and AI-informed systems, currently serving as Director of Product Design at HubSpot after leading consumer platform design and trust efforts at Nike. She has a strong track record scaling design languages and systems—from IBM’s enterprise-wide design language for thousands of products to Airbnb’s adoption program across 40+ teams—combining strategic vision with hands-on curriculum and team-building. At Shopify she helped enable cohesive, inclusive experiences via Polaris, and her work consistently focuses on reusable standards, data stewardship, and reducing bias in evaluation and hiring. Based in Austin, she brings a mix of enterprise and consumer experience, a background in graphic design, and a penchant for turning design systems into operational programs that measurably improve product quality and governance.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Graphic Design (MGD) User Experience Design, Master of Graphic Design (MGD) User Experience Design at North Carolina State University
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Hayley Hughes - Director Of Product Design at HubSpot