Katherine Alvarado

Dual product designer and product manager, with more than 10 years of experience designing and delivering high-revenue, scalable products from 0 to 1. Excels in both hands-on design work and collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop product vision, establish alignment, and drive projects to successful completion within timeline. Strategically-minded and skilled at translating business goals to results-driven solutions.

Currently leading design at Manifold Security

Lead designer on Agent Security product for Prisma AIRS.

— Designed the Agent Security observability application in 3 month timeline

— Led complex security-focused design initiatives while mentoring and guiding a junior designer with limited UX and security experience, ensuring high-quality execution and cross-functional alignment.

— Selected to help shape Prisma AIRS pricing and licensing workflows, identifying in-product opportunities to drive lead generation, conversion, and upsell growth.

— Improved delivery speed and consistency by creating scalable UX documentation and interaction patterns that enabled engineering and design teams to clearly understand functional behaviors across the product, supporting long-term ownership by other teams.

— Trusted contributor in design critique sessions, regularly sought out by peers for strategic feedback, mentorship, and 1:1 design reviews.

Trusted to lead complex domain modeling initiatives as a top-performing designer at Protect AI before its acquisition by Palo Alto Networks, leveraging product management expertise to improve cross-functional prioritization and execution.

Lead initiatives at Archer that allowed for government and state agencies to adopt our cloud technologies securely and efficiently. FedRAMP, TX-RAMP, and OSCAL are government programs that standardize the approach to security.

— Attained 96% of annual sales revenue goals by Q3

— Designed FedRAMP service from zero including pre-sales, post-sales, operations, and technical support.

  — Obtained leadership buy-in from hosting collaborative in-person workshops

  — Designed workflows and supporting documentation tailored for each team

— Streamlined FedRAMP vendor finance operations by designing internal tool to track, notify, and automate manual processes, reducing human error

— Obtained Archer's TX-RAMP certification in 1 month timeline, enabling customer retention and increasing ARR

— Strengthened FedRAMP pipeline by collaborating with AWS and author of OSCAL

  — Designed wireframes accounting for happy-paths and error-handling on client-side, as well as back-end architecture.

Excelled as a hybrid Senior Product Designer and Product Manager.

— Led Product Design, Product Management, and Engineers for implementation of Cyber Risk Quantification, a $1M innovation product

  — Designed solution to combine two APIs into one, preemptively reducing maintenance time by 50%

  — Conducted continuous user research and applied feedback to design and lead implementation of a freemium product

— Developed product entitlement solution, gaining buy-in from the SVP of Engineering

  — Simplified methods resulting in savings of $100K from third party solution

  — Streamlined the entitlement process resulting in 37% time savings

— Implemented an in-platform lead generating solution, capturing user information and resulting in a 3400% increase of lead generation

Developed high performance trading desktop software for clients such as: Daiwa Trading Co., Bank of America, Cantor Fitzgerald. Areas of focus included risk management, user trading applications, and security authentication.

— Designed and launched the Treasury trading application in 12 month timeline

— Achieved 25,000% growth in daily trades within 2 year timespan, up from $1M at launch.

— Designed and operated five high-speed trading applications and two auth applications

— Designed 10 different algorithmic trading options

— Designed risk management software application for monitoring of liquid assets and detecting when limits are exceeded to prevent significant market impact

— Designed a location agnostic feature to enable global real time financial trades

— Designed fallback methods that protected against rejected orders

— Improved platform's identity security by designing an in-house company wide authentication scheme that allowed greater control by organization admins

Autonomously led projects that established high visibility with the C-Suite.

— Designed a note taking capability for learners to leave comments on the educational content to improve cognitive retention and enhance learning and productivity.

  — Delightfully increased content engagement metrics by 33% and passable test scores by 10%

— Spearheaded a design QA process that included acquiring a stable test environment, and implemented a bug reporting process to engineering improving product development timelines by 15%.

— Created a QA process for the Android user group, increasing adoption by 6%.

Top performing designer given the ability to assess business needs, conduct product testing, and ensure the successful launch of digital products within agency paced time lines.

— Designed & prototyped an entire app to compete with GoodRx, in order to go to market to identify market demand, in 1 week of my first month of employment.

— Improved e-commerce web site usability on SIO Beauty resulting in faster checkouts

— Trusted advisor to the customer and was sought out designer

— Customer continued to retain engagement throughout hiring a third party to rebrand their website

— Workload was over 20% of average assignments

— Responsible for UX/UI of native apps and responsive web. As well as providing build notes for developers, prototyping, interaction design, branding, marketing, illustration, QA, emails, and small scale motion graphics.