LISE PILOT | UX

Lise Pilot

Summary

I believe great products begin with understanding people. I partner with Product and Engineering teams to transform complex challenges into intuitive experiences that help organizations succeed and make people's work easier, more productive, and a little more enjoyable.

Key Results & Impact

15+

Years Experience

6+

Innovation Awards

5

Bestselling Books

20+

Professional Certifications

Work Experience

NextEra Energy, Experience Architect

AI-Enabled Renewable Energy Platforms

Lead experience strategy across four enterprise and customer-facing digital product workstreams, translating complex renewable-energy workflows into intuitive, AI-enabled experiences. Guide product designers while shaping UX strategy, customer research, design governance, and human-centered AI innovation across Salesforce, GIS, and digital customer platforms.

UKG, Principal Product Designer / UX Manager

Enterprise Workforce Management

Led product design strategy and enterprise UX transformation across complex workforce management SaaS products. Combined hands-on product design with team leadership, customer research, design systems, and cross-functional strategy to modernize enterprise experiences, scale human-centered design practices, and guide teams through cloud transformation and post-merger product unification.

SATO Global Solutions, Founding UX Manager / UX Architect

Enterprise RFID & IoT Solutions

Built the company's first UX practice, establishing human-centered design, research, rapid prototyping, and design governance. Led experience strategy for emerging IoT and RFID solutions across healthcare, retail, logistics, manufacturing, and hospitality while partnering with executive leadership, Product, Engineering, and Sales.

Citrix, Lead Product Designer

Enterprise Mobility & Security

Led product design and UX strategy during the emergence of enterprise mobility, translating complex security and virtualization technologies into intuitive experiences across smartphones, tablets, and desktop platforms. Helped pioneer Citrix Receiver and XenMobile experiences while establishing customer research and Design Thinking practices that brought customer insight more deeply into product development.

Verio, Senior Usability Engineer

Enterprise Web Hosting & Digital Products

Led user-centered design for enterprise web hosting and digital products, partnering with Product and Engineering to translate complex technical capabilities into intuitive customer experiences. Applied user research, usability testing, and interaction design while helping establish stronger human-centered design practices across the organization.

IBM, Human Factors Engineer

Speech Recognition & Enterprise Software

Designed early speech recognition products at the forefront of human-computer interaction, including pioneering voice experiences that enabled people to control Windows desktops through natural speech. Applied human factors, usability research, and interaction design to make emerging voice technologies more intuitive and accessible.

Education

Executive MBA

Florida Atlantic University· 2025

B.S. Human Factors & Ergonomic Engineering

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Certifications

Designlab logo

AI Product Design Certification

Salesforce logo

Salesforce Certified Platform UX Designer

Google Cloud logo

Google Generative AI Leader

LUMA Institute logo

Human-Centered Design Practitioner

Wharton Executive Education logo

Executive Presence & Influence

IxDF logo

AI for Designers

Awards & Recognition

Best Quality Learning Experience

NextEra Energy • Quality, Safety & Innovation Expo • 2026

Recognized for co-creating the Human-Centered Design AI Test Kitchen, an interactive exhibit showcasing human-centered AI, rapid prototyping, and responsible AI design.

First Place

Replit AI Prototype Challenge • UKG • 2025

Recognized as part of a cross-functional team that leveraged Custom GPTs to streamline the product lifecycle, from market research and business case development to JTBD and prototype testing.

First Place

Innovation Challenge • UKG • 2024

Designed a self-learning AI assistant that provided real-time employee guidance while automatically capturing user friction through Pendo analytics, creating a continuous feedback loop to improve the product.

Author

AI for UX Designers™ Series

Published the AI for UX Designers™ series, sharing practical frameworks, enterprise case studies, and human-centered AI methods drawn from over 20 years of product design experience.