John Egan

About John Egan

John Egan is a Boston-based product designer with 12+ years of experience scaling design practices from 0 to 1 at high-growth companies. He currently leads design for agentic AI at DigitalOcean as Senior Design Engineer, AI.

Name: John Egan

What he does: Product Designer

Current role: Senior Design Engineer, AI at DigitalOcean (since 2025)

Location: Boston, MA, USA

Experience: 12+ years

Known for: Agentic AI and AI assistant UX; Design systems and component libraries; Design engineering and code-first prototyping; 0-to-1 product design; Product strategy; Building and leading design teams; User research and usability testing; Conversion optimization and A/B testing

Contact: john@johnegan.io

Website: https://www.johnegan.io

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/j0hnegan

GitHub: https://github.com/j0hnegan

Résumé (PDF): https://www.johnegan.io/john-egan-resume.pdf

About

From startups to Super Bowl champs, I help ambitious teams build intuitive experiences and turn bold ideas into products people love.

I work where design meets code. I build design systems, shape product strategy, and prototype in the browser with tools like Cursor and Claude Code, so ideas ship as production-ready components instead of static mockups. Design-led work I've led has influenced more than $75M in revenue.

Right now I lead 0-to-1 design and strategy for DigitalOcean's agentic AI platform. Before that, I led product design at OPEX Fitness and Organic Ventures, founded the design practice at Techstars, built web experiences at VictorOps (acquired by Splunk), and started out on the web team at the New England Patriots.

Experience

Senior Design Engineer, AI, DigitalOcean — 2025–Present

Leads 0-to-1 design and strategy for DigitalOcean's agentic AI platform.

Moved the design process to a code-first workflow, using AI tools like Cursor and Claude Code to prototype production-ready components and interactions.

Leads usability testing and UX improvements to drive adoption of the AI assistant product.

Lead Product Designer, OPEX Fitness — 2024–2025

Drove UX strategy for a platform serving 2,000+ fitness coaches and their clients worldwide.

Redesigned the core coaching workflow, increasing user engagement by 63%.

Established the design system and component library, cutting feature development time by 30%.

Lead Product Designer, Organic Ventures — 2021–2023

Led design for a portfolio of 0-to-1 products, directly driving $9M in revenue in Q3 2022.

Managed the product design team while scaling design operations for rapid growth.

Built the design system from scratch, giving 5 product lines one consistent experience.

Senior Manager, UX, Techstars — 2018–2021

Founded the design practice and partnered with the C-suite to define product strategy.

Increased enterprise conversion rates 25% through UX optimization, generating $66M in pipeline revenue.

Led design for a global accelerator platform serving 2,000+ startups across 50+ programs.

Experience Developer, VictorOps (acquired by Splunk) — 2015–2018

Designed for web, mobile, email and social, contributing to the $120M Splunk acquisition.

Drove a $1.2M revenue increase through enterprise user journey optimization.

Assistant Webmaster, New England Patriots — 2013–2014

Supported digital design and web operations for the six-time Super Bowl champions.

Redesigned the Patriots ProShop e-commerce funnel, raising conversion and lowering cart abandonment through A/B testing.

Skills

Design: Figma, 0-to-1 product, User research, Usability testing, Wireframing, Prototyping, Visual design, Design systems, A/B testing

Technical: HTML/CSS, React, Python, SQL, Git, Storybook, Cursor, Framer, Claude Code

Leadership: Strategic planning, Stakeholder management, Design operations, Managing and mentorship

Contact

Email john@johnegan.io. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/j0hnegan