Ryan Martin

A Product Designer with over 10 years experience designing web and mobile products.

I’m currently at Zendesk working on experiences that help our growing developer community across the world.

Learn more about my career journey.

Key experience

 

Zendesk

2020 - current

Product Design Manager

  • Managed a team of designers working across our entire external developer platform

  • Mentored associate content and product designers to help establish their careers

Lead Product Designer

  • Consolidated five developer documentation experiences while increasing time per session by over 20%.

  • Refreshed our Marketplace experience helping to greatly increase partner revenue year on year.

 

REA Group

2016 - 2020

Product Design Manager

  • Managed a team of 5 designers across two business units.

  • Introduced new ways of working to 18+ designers across the organisation.

  • Developed designers through mentoring and development opportunities. Read the case study.

Lead Product Designer

  • Launched Ignite, a new customer platform across web and native apps to over 1,000 real estates agents in the first 12 months.

  • Helped establish the design system, which has since grown to be a core part of design operations for the organisation.

Senior Product Designer

  • Helped to replatform realestate.com.au and real commercial.com.au, Australia’s #1 residential and commercial property websites

  • Created experiences throughout a property owner’s journey

Giving back

 

Teaching

Helping the design-curious understand the design process and various methodologies that will help them solve future problems.

Mentoring

Providing one on one guidance to mentees based on my years of experience and knowledge.

Public speaking

Sharing my experience and knowledge internally and externally