Lise Pilot

Experience Strategy & Product Design

Human-Centered. AI-Enabled. Outcome-Driven.

Experience

Product design and strategy across enterprise platforms, AI-enabled experiences, and complex digital ecosystems.

  1. NextEra Energy

    Experience Architect / Lead UX (Contract)

    Renewable Energy · Enterprise Platforms · AI

    Designed renewable-energy experiences across AI-assisted land prospecting, landowner self-service, and Salesforce workflows.

    • Designed an AI-assisted land prospecting experience to help teams evaluate and prioritize potential sites.
    • Designed a landowner self-service portal supporting payments, account information, and service requests, projected to save ~$150K annually by shifting ~5,000 service calls to digital self-service.
    • Conducted research and usability testing to improve workflows and validate design decisions.
    • Worked closely with Product and Engineering across 4 workstreams from discovery through delivery, and mentored 3 product designers.
  2. UKG

    Principal Product Designer / UX Design Manager

    Enterprise Workforce Management

    Designed enterprise workforce-management experiences across time, scheduling, payroll, mobile, and AI.

    • Designed and modernized complex HCM workflows used across enterprise organizations.
    • Designed cross-product experiences supporting a more unified UKG experience across 5 product domains, accelerating cross-platform delivery by 30%.
    • Created and tested AI-assisted concepts for workforce-management workflows.
    • Improved mobile experiences through research, prototyping, and usability testing, increasing adoption by 25% and raising the App Store rating to 4.5★.
    • Contributed to shared patterns and design-system adoption across products, and mentored a team of 6 designers and researchers.
  3. SATO Global Solutions

    Founding UX Manager / UX Architect

    Enterprise RFID + IoT Solutions

    Designed IoT and RFID experiences across mobile, web, and enterprise workflows while establishing the company's early UX practice.

    • Established the UX practice and a human-centered design process.
    • Designed and prototyped IoT and RFID experiences across healthcare, retail, logistics, manufacturing, and hospitality.
    • Conducted research and usability testing to validate concepts.
    • Collaborated with Product, Engineering, and Sales.
  4. Citrix

    Lead Product Designer

    Enterprise Mobility + Security

    Designed enterprise mobility experiences that helped people securely access applications and work across devices.

    • Designed Citrix Receiver experiences across six operating systems.
    • Contributed to enterprise mobility and BYOD experiences across phone, tablet, and desktop.
    • Designed mobile device management experiences including XenMobile.
    • Used customer research and usability testing to inform product decisions.
  5. Verio

    Senior Usability Engineer

    Enterprise Web Hosting + Digital Products

    Designed enterprise web-hosting and digital product experiences, translating technical capabilities into understandable customer workflows.

    • Applied user-centered design across complex enterprise products.
    • Conducted user research and usability testing.
    • Shaped information architecture and interaction design.
    • Collaborated with cross-functional product teams.
  6. IBM

    Human Factors Engineer

    Speech Recognition + Enterprise Software

    Designed early speech-recognition experiences focused on making voice interaction intuitive and usable.

    • Applied human factors and usability research to voice interaction design.
    • Designed early speech-recognition experiences, including voice control of Windows desktops.
    • Contributed to products including IBM ViaVoice.

Education

Executive MBA

Florida Atlantic University · 2025

B.S. Human Factors & Ergonomic Engineering

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Certifications

AI Product Design

Designlab

Salesforce Certified Platform UX Designer

Salesforce

Google Generative AI Leader

Google Cloud

Human-Centered Design Practitioner

LUMA Institute

AI-Empowered SAFe Agile Product Owner / Product Manager (POPM)

Scaled Agile

AI for UX Designers

Interaction Design Foundation

Recognition

Best Learning Experience Award

NextEra Energy · 2026

Co-created the Human-Centered Design AI Test Kitchen, an interactive exhibit on human-centered AI, rapid prototyping, and responsible AI design.

Winner

Replit AI Prototyping Challenge · UKG · 2025

Part of a cross-functional team that used custom GPTs to streamline the product lifecycle, from market research and business-case development through JTBD and prototype testing.

Winner

AI Innovation Hackathon · UKG · 2024

Designed a self-learning AI assistant delivering real-time employee guidance while capturing user friction through Pendo analytics.

Great Place to Work Innovation Award

UKG · LightStarters Framework

Recognized for co-creating LightStarters, a repeatable design sprint framework that standardized customer discovery across product teams.

Let’s work together.

I’m open to Senior, Staff, and Principal Product Design opportunities, as well as Design Management, UX Architecture, and customer-focused Product Management roles.