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Caleb Smith

Product Design Manager

Seattle, WAcalebksmith.comlinkedin.com/in/calebksmithgithub.com/calebksmith/portfolio

Summary

I lead product design at Vimocity, a workplace health and safety platform for utility companies, working cross-functionally to build features our customers love. My background spans video production, motion graphics, and UX/UI design, and I build what I design, from first prototype to the shipped product.

Skills

Design
  • Product design
  • UX/UI
  • Design systems
  • Prototyping
  • User research
  • Accessibility
Product
  • 0→1 features
  • Product briefs
  • Roadmapping
Frontend
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind
  • React Native
  • Storybook
Tools and AI
  • Figma
  • Claude Code
  • AI coding guardrails
  • Design to code
Video and motion
  • Video production
  • Motion graphics
  • Photography
Platforms
  • Web
  • iOS
  • Android
  • Windows

Experience

Vimocity · Seattle, WA

May 2021 – Present

Workplace health and safety platform for utility companies · ~50,000 users across 75+ organizations

  • Product Design Manager, Design EngineerSep 2024 – Present
  • Product DesignerMay 2022 – Aug 2024
  • Multimedia DesignerMay 2021 – Apr 2022

Design system

  • Built VimUI and lead its growth: 50+ web components on shared tokens, documented in Storybook, with color and type tokens shared across iOS, Android, and Windows.
  • Raised reusable component use from about 10% to 80–90% of frontend code, and design token use from 0% to 99%.
  • Wrote and maintain the system’s standards, from tokens to accessibility, and ship it as versioned releases, with a beta before anything breaking.

Automation and AI tooling

  • Built automated checks that run before every merge, on the design system’s components and the product’s pages: tokens, accessibility, loading states, and breakpoints.
  • Loaded the same rules into our AI coding tools, so generated code follows the standards from the start.
  • Result: design is no longer a bottleneck, and the whole team can build production-quality interfaces.

Product

  • Define what gets built with the leadership team, reporting to the President/COO, from customer feedback to product briefs.
  • Interview customers and non-customers to check that features hold up beyond our existing base.
  • Prototype in real components, so we test near-final work. About 80% of the frontend code I prototype reaches production.

Design and delivery

  • Design and build features in the product codebase, and review frontend pull requests across the team.
  • Rebuilt the web portal from a legacy codebase onto Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind, page by page, on VimUI.
  • Set the approach per platform: mobile-first web, React Native for iOS and Android, and V-minder, a Windows app built around notifications.

Video and motion

  • Started as the multimedia designer, producing, editing, and adding motion graphics to Vimocity’s videos.

Modern Trailhead (opens in a new tab) · Seattle, WA

Dec 2016 – Present

Owner · design and digital consulting (concurrent)

  • Design and build client websites end to end, from strategy to launch.
  • Produce video and photo for brands including Brooks Running, Shake Shack, Seabourn Cruise Lines, Chateau Ste. Michelle, and Car Toys.

Clean Energy Transition Institute · Seattle, WA

Dec 2017 – Aug 2021

Digital Communications Manager (contract)

  • Led digital communications, web presence, and data storytelling for a clean energy research nonprofit.

Selected work

  • Login and account creation — One sign-in for web, mobile, and desktop, with multi-factor authentication. Login and account-access support tickets fell 80%.
  • Content discovery — New browse, video, and playlist pages. Content relevance improved 35%.
  • Safety campaigns — Targeted content that safety leaders send across their organization. Content access improved 5x.
  • Movement challenges — Leaderboard and individual target challenges across mobile, web, and desktop. Daily 5 completions rose 65% among participants.
  • V-minder — A Windows app with movement breaks on a schedule people set themselves. Its users are 1.3x as likely to complete the Daily 5.
  • Playlists — Shareable, embeddable video collections, also used by sales to pitch prospects. Saves grew more than 4x from launch to peak.

Education

University of Washington — BA, International Development; Minor, Spanish