Summary
Rob Macdonald is a Senior User Experience Designer with over 15 years crafting mobile, mixed reality, and web experiences for global brands, currently leading UX for Amazon’s HR compensation products supporting hundreds of thousands of employees. He has managed cross‑continental teams from Vancouver for the past seven years and brings deep expertise in design systems, usability research, browser and app store interfaces, and high‑volume news media websites. His background includes leadership roles at Magic Leap and Mozilla where he combined usability research with product design to guide platform-level UX. Known for translating complex platform constraints into elegant, scalable design solutions, he also has a track record of building design systems for emerging AR/VR platforms—an uncommon specialization among senior UX leaders.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, MSc at University of Washington
Executive Education Management Development Certificate, Executive Education Management Development Certificate at The University of British Columbia