About
18+ Years of Product Design ExperienceBased in Marin County, CAHi, I'm Mike Aurelio
Human-Centered Design for an AI-Native World
Design Leader and Principal IC with 12+ years of hands-on design experience & 5+ years people leadership experience, bridging high-impact individual execution with team building, design ops, and enterprise strategy. Recognized for driving complex 0-to-1 platforms while coaching designers, scaling practices, and aligning C-suite stakeholders. Comfortable designing complex interaction systems with AI-enhanced workflows while directing design teams, setting product vision, and establishing design governance.
My journey at a glance
SalesforcePrincipal Product Designer & Director of Product Design across Marketing Cloud, Agentforce, and cross-cloud AI experiences.
Skyline CollegeLaunched the college’s first dedicated UX Certificate program as an Adjunct Educator.
California College of the ArtsTaught two summer semesters in the graduate interaction design program.
DesignMap SFVP of Design & UX Director. Award winning UX design consulting and execution for Cisco Systems, Charles Schwab, eBay, and more.
Sacramento StateBS in Graphic Design. Won the prestigious “Best Portfolio” award.Core Competencies
Professional Experience
Architect foundational 0-to-1 interaction patterns and UI systems for Einstein Copilot for Marketing (agentic campaign creation) and Adaptive Websites (agentic B2B2C personalization). Partner with Platform Design leadership and cross-functional teams to align and codify Human-Agent UI patterns across Marketing Cloud, laying strategic design foundation for Agentforce Marketing. Align vision through workshops and strategic communications.
- Spearheaded definition of cross-cloud Content Vision strategy, built on "Data + Content + Experience" framework. United four previously siloed clouds into single shared content model and shaped FY26's planning priorities that Engineering could scope release by release.
- Enabled prioritization of content data model on Data Cloud to translate CMS/DAM data into semantic formats that AI agents could parse and personalize from.
- Accelerated campaign creation 75% (weeks to days) by designing LLM-powered assistive model adopted by 500+ users.
- Established human-in-the-loop design system and interaction patterns that became foundational to Agentforce's AI experiences.
- Achieved 33% lift in recommendation-driven conversion, 40% increase in cross-category browsing, and saved 100 days/year in marketing ops by designing and building Adaptive Websites, enabling online experiences to tailor themselves to individual users in real time.
- Partnered directly with major customers to understand their needs.
- Designed Agentic Content Zone (ACZ) to dynamically render content within dedicated panel while AI conversational content stayed visible and navigable.
Secured patent, "Display Screen or Portion Thereof With Graphical User Interface," which models agentic multi-channel marketing content generation.
Elevated craft and accelerated execution speed by building scalable frameworks for design critique, research partnerships, and cross-functional handoffs. Mentored four senior- to principal-level product designers on Einstein AI for Marketing team. Established practice standards, team design ops, and career progression guidance.
- Secured executive buy-in for Einstein Self-Optimizing Campaigns (ESOC), which envisioned AI-driven campaigns autonomously optimized toward individual marketers' stated business goals.
- Directed design of interactive Figma prototype and executed exploratory study, validating concept after earning 'must-have' rating by marketers.
- Transformed disorganized work environment, establishing processes and tools to improve visibility and facilitate collaboration where none existed previously.
- Empowered designers to begin collaborating on their own, improved responsiveness to risks and enabled better planning for feature ownership, strategy, and future research needs.
- Built shared spreadsheet to track progress against release timelines.
- Held weekly stand-up to respond to roadblocks.
- Enabled designers to receive feedback on pattern alignment and usability by establishing weekly critiques.
- Implemented regular one-on-ones with designers, UX researcher, product management, and engineering leadership to glean individual needs and opportunities.
- Helped secure promotion of Lead Designer to Principal Designer, thanks to direct coaching and advocacy.
Scaled internal design ops and built agency's product design practice into end-to-end UX/UI, expanding client accounts across B2B SaaS, IT, fintech, and healthcare.
Directed multi-disciplinary teams (UX, visual, motion, research, front-end) while leading product strategy and design execution for high-stakes enterprise clients including Cisco Systems, Charles Schwab, eBay, and ExactTarget. Mentored junior-to-senior designers, managed executive client relationships, and established SOPs for research and studio design reviews. Spearheaded design strategy for award-winning client engagements.
Led design of CloudGenix's SD-WAN management platform (cloud-based system enabling network admins to create, monitor, and optimize enterprise-scale networks in plain business language), which scaled from pilot concept in 2017 into valuable enterprise-scale system, acquired by Palo Alto Networks in 2020 for $420M.
Revolutionized multiple sclerosis (MS) care by designing AI-enhanced clinical application to give neurologists objective, longitudinal views of disease activity, biomarkers, and treatment responses. Transformed two years of Octave Health's scientific/market research into investor-ready vision, following 11-week design engagement.
Led UX Design Director role on cross-disciplinary team to redesign the SDR platform at InsideSales, designing a heads-up display interface that consolidated lead context and eliminated context-switching—the vision was demonstrated at the customer conference, validated market demand, and influenced product strategy. Won 2017 Bronze Prize at UX Awards for Most Engaging Sales Tool.
Architected interaction models, vision storyboards, enterprise user flows, and prototypes for complex digital platforms across IT/Networking, e-commerce, and restaurant management.