Spencer Hurst
Principal Product Designer at Freelance
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSpencer Hurst is a Principal Product Designer with 12 years of experience and a BS in Visual Communication Design, currently leading product design at FlexWage in New York. He has a strong track record designing web, mobile, service, and installation experiences within agile environments and has led design teams at Pivotal, rising from senior designer to director and manager roles. Spencer blends user-centered research, creative direction, and front-end technologist skills to deliver pragmatic design systems and seamless integrations with HR and payroll platforms. He enjoys tackling systemic, cross-functional problems—especially where design can improve financial access and wellbeing for users. As a consultant and former Pivotal lead, he’s comfortable scaling design culture, hiring and mentoring talent, and translating complex enterprise requirements into usable products. An unconventional strength is his hands-on comfort with both brand-level creative direction and implementation-ready front-end guidance, which helps bridge design and engineering.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA Visual Communication Design, BA Visual Communication Design at Arizona State University
Github Skills (6)
component-library10
pivotal10
react9
react-components9
ui-components8
edtech2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pivotal-plech/docs-design
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
pivotal-plech/pui-blueprints
Jan 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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