Roberto "Roby" Saavedra

Product Designer IV

Olympus Corporation of the Americas · Remote

Medical technology — connected surgical and diagnostic solutions.

• Designed tools that bring calm and clarity to hospital endoscopy units, where clinical staff make real-time decisions about patient care
• Built an AI-powered interface that unified millions of disparate clinical data points into plain-language answers, accessible at the point of care
• Led AI literacy workshops that changed how design teams reason about what machine intelligence should (and shouldn't) do
• Conducted field research in hospital endoscopy units across multiple countries, watching the work directly to understand what's genuinely hard

Founder, Designer & Engineer

Good Song Club · Independent

Consumer music platform — conceived, designed, built, and maintained independently.

• Conceived, designed, and shipped a collaborative music platform where users share one song a day serving as a social layer on top of YouTube with a worldwide shared playlist
• Sole owner of every surface: product strategy, UX, visual design, front-end engineering, back-end, and ongoing maintenance — a daily practice for over two years
• Recognized by Site of Sites for excellence in UI design
goodsong.club

Senior Product Designer

Cavnue · Remote

Infrastructure startup — bridging current AV capabilities and full self-driving.

• Made invisible infrastructure legible — turned sensor accuracy, system confidence, and live telemetry into a decisive interface for the humans responsible for keeping autonomous vehicles safe, saving millions in third-party tooling costs
• Built the design system that enabled engineers to ship new data views without recurring design cycles or vendor dependencies
• Drove product roadmap with PMs, integrating field research and market insight to shape priorities

Senior Product Designer

Revel · Brooklyn, NY

Electric mobility startup — mopeds and EV charging across major US cities.

• First designer at the company — built every surface a rider or operator touches, from the consumer iOS and Android apps to the full internal operations and logistics suite, from scratch
• Worked alongside every department lead to align tooling to real operational needs; launch resulted in measurable gains in productivity and financial efficiency
• Established the design system that scaled across the company's expanding product lines

Product Designer

Flocabulary · Brooklyn, NY

EdTech — hip-hop-based learning for K–12 students across core curricula.

• Designed pedagogical tools, games, and classroom activities that made learning feel less like school — used by millions of K–12 students across the US
• Ran structured usability research with students and teachers; iterated on findings to measurably improve engagement and product performance

Lead Product Designer

Propel ML · Brooklyn, NY

• Designed an in-browser JavaScript ML notebook for data scientists — a focused interface built around code, output, and model state that got out of the way and let people think

Product Designer

Diligent Corporation · New York, NY

B2B SaaS — secure boardroom document management for S&P 500 clients.

• Owned the desktop platform surface for macOS and web, delivering a consistent, secure experience for board-level users at the world's largest companies
• Led the PWA initiative end-to-end: achieved full feature parity in the browser, established a CI/CD release pipeline, and eliminated OS constraints for enterprise users

Freelance Designer

• Helped define the early visual and interaction language for Google's self-driving car project (now Waymo), Spotify, Zipcar, Kayak, Blue Apron, and others

Dig This

React, Node.js, Discogs API

Music discovery tool that pulls random recommendations from the Discogs database by genre. Featured in DJ Mag.

Concrete 95

React, Node.js, Firebase

Experimental audio web app inspired by Musique Concrète — lets users create generative soundscapes from synth pads and found sound.

Lever

Figma Plugin

Figma plugin providing a consistent, opinionated structure to Figma files — reducing setup friction and enforcing file hygiene across teams.