Whitney Snyder

I have the pleasure of managing Whitney in her role as a Senior Product Designer at Syndio. She's a great designer and teammate who brings adaptability, collaboration, and a deep focus on user advocacy to everything she does. Whitney does a fantastic job of juggling multiple projects, often balancing competing priorities without skipping a beat. Even during times of change and transition on her squad, she stays positive and flexible, always keeping things moving forward. In a fast-paced startup environment, her skills in this area in particular have been invaluable. She's also incredibly collaborative and proactive about seeking feedback on her designs—not just from the design team but also from product, engineering, and of course...users. She genuinely values different perspectives and uses those inputs to make sure we're building the best solution possible. She also goes out of her way to pair with and give constructive, helpful feedback to the other designers on our team as well. Above all, Whitney is a strong advocate for users, deeply wanting to understand their problems. She truly excels in user research and synthesis. Her work has been instrumental for the company in understanding how recruiters and comp teams think. She has aggregated valuable insights that help fuel our product roadmaps. Whitney is also really fun to work with. She has a great attitude, builds strong relationships with her teammates, and makes the design team better as a whole.

Courtney Ellert → Director of Product Design · Syndio

Working with Whitney on designing complex fintech applications for over a year, she has always amazed by demonstrating her ability to think through complex design problems, coming up with solutions that weren't always apparent to other designers or stakeholders. She is a professional that is always learning and asking the hard questions. Whitney is a delight and incredible asset to any design team lucky enough to have her.

Darrin Jones → Principal User Experience Design Architect · Axway

Whitney fights the uphill battle of doing what is right, regardless of what is easy, and wins a lot :) She has been a strong influence in shaping the culture of the team and pushing the UX process forward. She is a great problem solver, when it comes to both creating thorough, user centered design as well as enabling the team to be more efficient and productive. Only too happy to take initiatives, she has stepped up to fill in the gaps wherever needed, like leading research to keep the project moving, or find tooling that the team needs for project management. An exemplary teammate, she is a great sounding board and collaborative partner across the board, creating innovative designs in partnership with data science, leading design workshops, challenging ideas and status quos to elevate the UX of all the products she has worked on. She is attentive, creative, detail-oriented and a fun team mate - she is going to be an extremely valuable part of any team she is a part of.

Archana Shah → Principal UX Researcher · LexisNexis

Whitney is a great designer! Smart, determined, empathetic, reliable, funny. She's great to work with. I worked with her closely on a few really complex systematic projects. She was great on process, attention to detail, and working with complex patterns. She also proved herself in one of those startup trials-by-fire, showing equanimity and leadership in the face of unclear direction and lack of support. She's great at taking direction when things are working well, and still delivers even when the team is in a tough place and things are falling apart, all with great communication. I really enjoyed our two years of close collaboration and look forward to working with her again if we get the chance.

Abel Lenz → Principal Product Designer · Syndio

I worked closely with Whitney on a small, under resourced team for the better part of a year. We were focused on the implementation of a new, central permissions system based on the ABAC model (attribute based access control); a project that was technically and politically demanding. ABAC is challenging for everyone to think about - for both crafters and users. As the senior product designer, Whitney was responsible for turning this complexity into an intuitive UI. Not only did she masterfully translate the requirements into an intuitive, beautiful design, and not only did she demonstrate strong ownership, but she was a teammate in the best sense of the word. She is not afraid to translate ambiguity into crisp requirements, and she holds up well under intense pressure from above. Together, our small team got this massive project over the line. We were all proud of what we accomplished. And it would not have happened without her. Any team would be lucky to have Whitney.

Adam Steel → Staff Engineer · Shopify

I had the pleasure and privilege of working with Whitney on the UX team at Advent SS&C. Demanding as her UX/Interaction Designer role was, designing for a complex and intricate FinTech application, she always took the time to collaborate and brainstorm with me on both the macro and the micro visual and UX details of the product. Whitney is highly detail-oriented and her passion and knowledge for UX and product design were always apparent. In addition, her background in law made her an excellent critical thinker and a trusted collaborator in all aspects of product design, from design thinking through execution and delivery. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Whitney as she'd be a valuable asset to any product design team, and I'd definitely welcome the opportunity to work with her again in the future.

Skott Reader → Creative Design Leader & Producer · Powerplay