Product Design & UX Leader ● Hybrid Barcelona & London, or Remote ● UK & EU right to work ● Open to roles
Product Design Leadership for SaaS, AI, and Enterprise Products.
Hi, I'm Derry Birkett. I help SaaS and AI companies simplify complex products, scale design systems, and deliver measurable product outcomes. Previously I led UX at CloudBees and delivered design systems and enterprise product initiatives for Oracle NetSuite.
About
18+ years in Product Design & UX
6 years leading UX at CloudBees
Enterprise SaaS
Product Strategy
AI Products
Design Systems
Available for fractional and permanent leadership roles
Selected impact
Led UX for CloudBees, a 500-person DevOps company serving Fortune 500 enterprises.
Built and scaled design systems adopted across multiple products and teams at Oracle.
Established Research Operations practices that improved roadmap and prioritisation decisions.
Directed product and UX strategy across enterprise SaaS and developer tooling.
Product Design in the Age of AI
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2025
- Sep 27, 2025 Building Apps from PRD Tasks Automatically Sep 27, 2025
- Sep 18, 2025 Metaprod: Spin Up a Product Manager Agent in Warp Sep 18, 2025
- Sep 12, 2025 How to Vibe a PM Agent Sep 12, 2025
- Jul 10, 2025 Creating a Raycast productivity extension with Cursor + AI Jul 10, 2025
- Jun 19, 2025 When prompting goes wrong… and what we can learn. Jun 19, 2025
- Jun 6, 2025 Context Engineering: Bootstrapping AI coding agents Jun 6, 2025
- Apr 4, 2025 Vibing with V0: A deployed Subscriptions management app in <5 minutes. Apr 4, 2025
- Mar 20, 2025 Vibe-coding an iOS App MVP in less than 10 minutes. Mar 20, 2025
- Mar 19, 2025 Vibe-coding is the future of product design (for now) Mar 19, 2025
- Feb 12, 2025 Super-primitives in design systems. Feb 12, 2025
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2024
- Jan 16, 2024 My UX Maturity Framework Jan 16, 2024
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2022
- May 31, 2022 Content Workshops May 31, 2022
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2020
- Aug 21, 2020 Launch day. Aug 21, 2020
Design Philosophy
Build the right things & Build the things right.
Great products are built on two principles: understanding the right problems to solve and executing solutions with care and precision. While the complexity grows with the size of the organisation, the fundamentals remain unchanged. Build the right things, and build them right.