Ryan Tang
Profile — AboutCurrently available

I design for complexdomains and expert users.

My career has centered on skeptical, high-stakes users: drug discovery scientists, pharma project managers, and enterprise analysts. They can’t rely on products that hide how decisions are made, so I design for clarity, trust, and actionability from day one.

I operate at a principal scope: from defining whether the right problem is being solved, to shipping the feature, to building the prototype that proves a new direction is worth pursuing. I’ve built functional agentic prototypes that changed roadmaps. I’ve run research studies and led design strategy that determined platform architecture. I’ve shipped GenAI features under enterprise account renewal pressure.

I’m based in Vancouver. I work best in environments where design is taken seriously as a strategic discipline that drives outcomes.

Experience

04 entries
  1. 01Nov 2021 – Nov 2025

    BenchSci

    Lead Product Designer

    Promoted to lead product designer in early 2024. Sole designer for Experiment Validation platform through company-wide GenAI pivot. Shipped company's first GenAI features. 8-figure enterprise partnerships and +100K downmarket users.

  2. 02Dec 2020 – Nov 2021

    Searchspring

    Product Designer

    Led design through post-acquisition integration. Unified design systems across three acquired products. +20% customer conversion rates.

  3. 03Jul 2019 – Aug 2020

    CodeMode Inc.

    UX Designer & Researcher

    Led enterprise ERP redesign for $2.6B pharma client (SGS). 50+ interviews, 400+ survey respondents. +31% improvement to task success rates for core user tasks.

  4. 042016 – Present

    Ryan Tang Design

    Fractional Design Partner

    Strategic design and product consulting for startups, healthcare, and non-profits.

Practice

Capabilities
AI Product Design
Designing GenAI interfaces, agentic UX, LLM-native features
Product Strategy
Problem framing, MVP scoping, cross-functional alignment
User Research
Contextual inquiry, card sorting, tree testing, 400+ participant surveys
Interaction Design
Complex enterprise systems, hybrid chat interfaces
Design Systems
Post-acquisition unification, component libraries, SOPs
Prototyping
Functional builds with v0, Cursor, Claude for concept validation

Tools

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FigmaCursorClaudeGeminiChatGPTDovetailOptimal WorkshopMiro
ContactRemote-first · Vancouver

Let’s buildsomething real.

Open to new product design roles. Remote-first, Vancouver-based.