sean philbrick ✴︎ based in boulder
Currently, I'm looking for my next role as a senior product designer on a team where design and engineering work as one.
I excel at the intersection where design meets engineering – thinking in systems, collaborating in code, and designing products that actually get used.

Most recently, I was a Senior Product Designer at Specialized, where I led our enterprise-level design system – the source of truth for styles, components, patterns, and guidelines across the entire company. I partnered with cross-functional teams and ran workshops on design-system principles, usage guidelines, and best practices, building a unified design language. Before that, I designed native iOS and Android experiences on Specialized's mobile app team, establishing the reusable components and interaction patterns that streamlined design and development.

Before Specialized, I worked as a Design Engineer & Frontend Developer building component libraries, which is where I learned to design with how things actually get built in mind. That combination is the through-line of my work: I think in systems, build with code in mind, and thrive where design and engineering work as one.
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Professional Experience

Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
Specialized Bicycle Components
Full-time
May 2024
June 2026
Product Designer, Mobile Apps
Specialized Bicycle Components
Full-time
Jul 2022
May 2024
Design Engineer & Frontend Developer
Fuego UX
Contract
Sep 2021
Nov 2024
Founder / Independent Designer
Apex Creative Studios
Freelance
May 2018
Dec 2024
User Experience Designer
Power TakeOff
Contract
Apr 2021
Mar 2023
Product Design Lead
Tomorrow's Air
Contract
Sep 2019
Dec 2022
Lead Designer
Adventure Travel Trade Association
Full-time
May 2018
May 2022

Stack & Tools

Figma
Supernova
Storybook
React
Claude Code
Code Connect
Tailwind
Webflow
Maze
ZeroHeight
Atlassian
Adobe Creative Suite

Skills

Design

Product Design
Design Systems
UX/UI Design
Visual Design
Interaction Design

Systems

Component & Pattern Libraries
Design Tokens
Documentation
Design Operations

Research & Strategy

Product Thinking
User Research
Usability Testing
Wireframing
Information Architecture

AI

Figma MCP Workflows
AI-Assisted Design Systems
AI-Assisted Prototyping
Generative AI Workflows