Piper Lawson
Director Of Product Design at Stack Overflow
Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPiper Lawson is a product design leader with eight years of focused experience now serving as Director of Product Design at Stack Overflow, where she has advanced from senior designer to lead strategic work on Reach and Relevance. She combines hands-on UX craft—running user interviews, research, and both low- and high-fidelity design—with cross-functional product strategy and hiring, and she founded Stack Overflow’s design guild to scale design thinking across the org. Her background spans e-commerce and SaaS design, having shaped experiences at Monotype, Fonts.com, and through a long-running freelance practice that served clients like AbbVie and PayRight. Based in Columbus, Ohio, Piper balances product vision with tactical delivery, often stepping into hands-on implementation and team leadership to turn research into measurable product decisions.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Visual Communication Technology, Bachelor of Science, Visual Communication Technology at Bowling Green State University
Github Skills (7)
flowtype10
react9
typescript9
frontend9
javascript1
nodejs1
simulator1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (3)
StackExchange/Stacks
May 2018 - Aug 2020
Stack Overflow’s Design System
Contributions:1 review, 23 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 3 months
reactstack-overflowflowtypefrontenddesign-system
StackExchange/Stacks-Icons
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Authoring tools for Stack Overflow's shared icon set.
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
authoringiconstack-overflowicon-seticons
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