Kiara Zora Brown

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Design Manager at Greystone Technologies | ex-Qualcomm

Greystone Technologies
Chicago, IL · CT (UTC-6)
11+ years experience
Parsons School of Design
English
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Overview

I've spent 15 years on design systems - first at VMware, now at Greystone Technologies. Shipped the design systems redesign that lifted task completion 25%. Built a component library 20 engineers ship with every day. Most at home with accessibility and tokens. I tinker with 3D printers.

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Skills
component librariestokensFigmaaccessibilitydesign systems
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Hiring an ux researcher for the design systems team - Chicago

Role
Ux researcher
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
$136k-$175k
Team
Design systems, 7 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
A portfolio of shipped product work Comfort working directly with engineers Ownership of something end to end
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp $157k-$268k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Chicago, ILdesign systemstokenscomponent libraries
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Experience

  1. Design Manager
    Dec 2025 - Present
    Greystone Technologies · 10 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Shipped the design systems redesign that lifted task completion 18%.
    • Ran 127 usability sessions and turned them into a research repository.
  2. Product Designer
    Sep 2023 - Dec 2025
    Qualcomm · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Cut support tickets about design systems by 21% with clearer copy and states.
    • Ran 104 usability sessions and turned them into a research repository.
  3. Staff Product Designer
    May 2021 - Sep 2023
    Fidelity Investments · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Shipped the design systems redesign that lifted task completion 36%.
  4. Senior Product Designer
    May 2017 - Mar 2021
    Starbucks · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Cut support tickets about design systems by 27% with clearer copy and states.
    • Built a component library 39 engineers ship with every day.
  5. UX Researcher
    Jun 2015 - May 2017
    VMware · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Built a component library 61 engineers ship with every day.
    • Brought the design systems flows to WCAG 2.2 AA.

Projects

Side project: a reading list app
2025

Built with design systems and accessibility. 406 people used it last year.

Design systems benchmark
2024

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Figma and accessibility on real workloads.

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Education

  1. Parsons School of Design
    BFA, Architecture
    2006 - 2010

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