Nicholas Mcclay
Senior Director Of Product & User Experience at Proofpoint
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Mcclay is a senior product and UX leader with 15+ years designing cloud and mobile experiences and 14 years of industry experience focused on building design-driven teams and measurable customer outcomes. Currently Senior Director of Product & User Experience at Proofpoint, he has progressed through hands-on UX roles and product leadership within security awareness and cloud platforms, shaping both strategy and execution. Nicholas excels at turning complex security and education workflows into clear, productive interfaces while fostering cross-functional collaboration between design, engineering, and product. He started his career blending interactive design, 3D and game-art skills—an atypical background that informs his pragmatic prototyping and visual problem-solving approach. Based in Pittsburgh, he brings a track record of scaling UX practice in fast-evolving product organizations and prioritizing what truly moves user satisfaction and productivity.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Game Art and Design, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Game Art and Design at The Art Institutes
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Github contributions (5)
wombatsecurity/ember-component-showcase
Feb 2017 - Jan 2020
An easy to use documentation component for Ember Components.
Contributions:4 releases, 106 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 11 months
emberjsember-addonemberember-components
nmcclay/addon-test
Dec 2018 - Jun 2019
This is a simple demo component addon for Ember.js to test how different engine dependency versions work .
Contributions:4 releases, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 5 months
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