Katie Kovalcin
Principal Product Designer at Gusto
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatie Kovalcin is a Principal Product Designer with 11 years of experience crafting scalable design systems and experience architectures across complex platforms. Currently on Gusto’s senior design leadership team, she shapes cross-organizational UX strategy, information architecture, and reusable patterns that enable product teams to move faster and more resiliently. Her background spans hands-on product work and design systems leadership at Shopify, Vox Media, and high-growth startups where she built the foundations that scaled 0-to-1 products into multi-product ecosystems. Katie is known for translating technical data models and platform constraints into clear UX patterns and communication frameworks that align engineers, product, and design. She combines a craft-first sensibility from a BFA in Graphic Design with pragmatic team-building—mentoring ICs into leaders—so organizational maturity grows alongside the system. An early-career role as a founding designer on a developer-facing product gives her uncommon empathy for engineering workflows and platform driven UX.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) Graphic Design at Columbus College of Art & Design
Github Skills (3)
slack4
twitter3
web-performance1
Github contributions (5)
katiekovalcin/kovalcin
Jan 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:51 pushes in 2 years 9 months
katiekovalcin/Code-Of-Conduct
May 2015 - Nov 2015
Code of Conduct for the Web Performance Slack Channel
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 6 months
web-performanceslackperformancecode-of-conduct
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