Ryan William Snow
CV (resumé)

I’m a product design leader with 14+ years of experience building complex B2B SaaS and AI products. Much of my work involves turning complex data and system logic into products people can understand, trust, and act on. I’ve been a first design hire, built teams and design systems from scratch, and led both designers and product managers while staying hands-on in product strategy and design.

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Experience

Odaia

AI and data products for pharmaceutical commercial teams.

  • Director, Product & Product Design · Jan 2026 – Aug 2026
  • Product Design Manager · May 2023 – Jan 2026
  • Product Design Lead · Jun 2022 – May 2023
  • Built the Product Design function from the ground up
  • Hired and led a high-performing team of product designers and product managers
  • Owned recruiting, performance management, career development, design strategy, and team culture
  • Established the design process and operating model
  • Helped reposition the product strategy toward product-market fit
  • Reframed the role of AI within the product strategy
  • Defined the direction and framework for an AI-native design system
  • Integrated repeatable AI workflows into Product and Design
  • Helped evolve how Product, Design, and Engineering worked together as the company scaled
  • Remained hands-on, designing map-based HCP discovery, Territory Overview, and the first versions of Coach for sales leaders and Marketing Intelligence for marketers

Straight Line Phobia

0-to-1 product strategy and design for early-stage companies.

  • Founder, Product Design · Jul 2019 – 2022
  • Led Kritik’s product design from v0 through a complete v1, defining the core experience from assignment setup through peer evaluation, feedback, and revision
  • Helped early-stage teams turn customer feedback and emerging ideas into coherent products and end-to-end workflows
  • Selected clients included Kritik and LegalMate

Loopio

Enterprise software for responding to RFPs using a shared library of approved content.

  • Director of Product Design · Jun 2017 – Mar 2019
  • Joined as Loopio’s first designer, owned the core product experience, and later hired and managed a team of three designers
  • Built Loopio’s design function and culture from the ground up, hiring and managing its first three designers
  • Built Loopio’s first design system and established the governance, maintenance practices, and team ownership needed to scale it
  • Helped establish cross-functional teams with Product, Design, and Engineering as equal partners
  • Embedded performance feedback and career development into regular one-on-ones and coaching, making growth continuous rather than a once-a-year review
  • Remained hands-on in the product, designing connected workflows for importing, finding, maintaining, reconciling, and governing enterprise knowledge. The core features remain part of Loopio today

Top Hat

Education technology for classroom engagement, assessment, and digital content.

  • Principal Product Designer · May 2012 – Jun 2017
  • First and only designer through Series A, B, and C, owning the student and professor experience across web, mobile web, native Apps, and SMS
  • Designed Top Hat’s end-to-end platform and information architecture, creating a shared content model that supported its expansion from classroom response into presentations, homework, testing, and digital textbooks. The underlying structure remains part of the platform today
  • Designed Top Hat’s first native iOS and Android applications
  • Built the company’s first design system and helped introduce React and reusable presentational components