About

I'm Kyle Partridge.

I close the gap between what AI makes possible and what each layer of an organization, from individual contributors to executives, can turn into usable results.

That work draws on more than a decade across the software development lifecycle as a designer, a product manager, and an operations leader. I also build with AI myself, taking products from concept to working applications in the hands of real users.

The thread through all of it stays the same. I look for the places where good people, and the AI tools they were given, get slowed down by the system around them, and I redesign that system with them until the work flows again.

How that change feels to the people living through it matters to me as much as the metrics, because lasting improvement depends on the people who carry it forward.

Portrait of Kyle Partridge
10+
years across the software development lifecycle
60+
person design organization supported across nine teams
5
years building design operations from the ground up
01Experience

Experience at a glance.

The work moved from the interface to the product to the operating model of an entire design organization, and now to building with AI.

Independent
Oct 2025 to present

AI Product Development

  • Launched an AI study app, built solo, now used by 7 firefighters preparing for promotion.
  • Prototyped a Claude-powered tool that drafts delivery plans from incoming design requests.
Public HR tech company
May 2021 to Oct 2025

Senior Design Operations & Program Lead

  • Built design operations for nine portfolios while the team grew from about 20 to 67 people.
  • Raised delivery predictability from 43% to 63% and more than doubled on-time delivery.
  • Authored the strategy for bringing AI into product design and won cross-functional buy-in.
  • Built the department’s first internship program, a new-talent pipeline where none existed; 8 of 11 interns converted to full-time over three years, all rated high performers.
MurCal
Dec 2018 to May 2021

Product Designer / Product Manager

  • Launched a standard display controller product, owning UX, UI and the roadmap end to end.
Blueview
Mar 2018 to Nov 2018

Art Director

  • Led brand, marketing and digital work as primary client partner, managing two designers.
Enovation Controls
Mar 2013 to Mar 2018

Senior Graphic Designer

  • Led marketing design and demo display interfaces for trade shows, sales teams and small clients.
02Approach

How I operate.

Five principles that decide what I do when priorities collide and the pressure is on.

01

Measure before changing anything

A baseline turns opinions into decisions. It also makes the improvement provable a year later, when someone asks what changed and why.

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