Sam Eckert
Head Of Design at Highlight
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSam Eckert is a Head of Design with 11+ years shaping products at the intersection of AI, creativity, and collaboration, currently leading design at Highlight to make knowledge capture effortless, private, and human-centered. He has driven product and monetization strategy at Linearity—scaling a vector app into a generative-AI creative suite, boosting retention and operationalizing custom GPTs to cut delivery cycles by 30%. A former founder and indie iOS developer, Sam shipped 11 apps and grew App Store visibility to over a million impressions, pairing hands-on engineering with design leadership. He’s filed multiple patents and built scalable design systems and critique rituals that keep teams aligned through downsizing and rapid change. Fluent in cross-cultural design from studies in Germany and China, he blends research-driven product decisions with a knack for turning AI into empowering, not controlling, user experiences. An unexpected thread through his career is early expertise in Gen Z marketing and wearable tech, which informs his sensitivity to emerging user behaviors and platform trends.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Interaction Design, Interaction Design at Tongji UniversityAbitur, Internationales Abitur und Sprachzertifikat Englisch, Abitur, Internationales Abitur und Sprachzertifikat Englisch at Dillmann-Gymnasium StuttgartFranz-Schubert-SchuleBachelor of Arts - BA, Interaction Design, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Interaction Design at Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd
German, English, French, Chinese
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Github Skills (62)
nsdata10
emoji10
sticker10
svg10
wwdc10
swift10
imessage10
swiftui10
ios9
ruby9
android9
automation9
android-apps9
swiftyjson8
fastlane8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hfg-gmuend/hfg-exhibition-grid
Jul 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:42 commits, 7 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 7 months
hfg-gmuend/openmoji-ios
Feb 2018 - Jul 2022
iOS App + iMessage Sticker Pack for OpenMoji emojis
Contributions:2 releases, 80 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years 5 months
emojiopenmojisticker-packios-appimessage
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