UiPath

UiPath

Full time role

2019 - Present

My time at UiPath has been transformative for my career. I've gotten to spearhead a company-wide design system used by 35 internal teams, lead a complete overhaul of UiPath's learning platform, and launch 5 MVPs.

My time at UiPath has been transformative for my career. From spearheading a company-wide design system used by 35+ teams to leading a complete technical overhaul of a multi-million user site, UiPath has been full of unique opportunities to grow.

A seamless upgrade to an modern content platform

The project began with a problem: UiPath had several high-traffic, multilingual web platforms with no design consistency, content reusability, or ease of governance.

From here it was up to me to distill a solution that would genuinely benefit teams across each of these disciplines. I interviewed members of each team, learning their workflows, painpoints, and inefficiencies of their day-to-day.


Working from a place of empathy, I designed a platform that would take content management out of the hands of engineers, and allow governance of accessibility, SEO, tone-of-voice, and UI at scale.

Results


As a result of the migration to this platform, my team and I increased accessibility scores by seventy percent, outperformed organic growth targets quarter after quarter, and enforced a content governance across thousands of multilingual site pages.

Architecting, building, and socializing design system tooling for hundreds of engineers

When I started at UiPath, we had thirty five different digital products, each with disparate brand experiences, UI elements, and front end systems.

I worked across design, product, and engineering to come up with an easy way for engineers to access the design tokens, UI elements, and icons that designers managed.

To earn funding and trust in the project, I started with the smallest first step: a system to view, access, and update design tokens.

From there, I worked with executive leadership to get funding for the design system engineering team. It was approved, and we got to building the remaining pieces that were needed.

Results

Design System

This platform has been integrated into 35 internal products. It's helped us achieve VPAT certification as well, significantly expanding market reach and contributing to UiPath FedRAMP authorization.

Keynote Speaker

2021 and 2022

In both 2021 and 2022, I had the chance to be a keynote speaker at Contentful's Fast Forward conference

In the talks, I shared my experiences building and growing a team around Contentful.

Customer Panel - Fast Forward - San Francisco, 2022

Customer Panel - Fast Forward - San Francisco, 2022

Productivity and Scale in the Modern Workplace, 2021

Productivity and Scale in the Modern Workplace, 2021

Connor Rowland © 2022

Connor Rowland © 2022