You need a CVP of Design who scales
global teams for enterprise-grade products.
That's me.

Hi Sonar. I'm Don Roach, a product design leader with 15+ years in product design, including 7+ in UX leadership. I'm looking at your CVP of Design role because I've already scaled a design org across the exact kind of cross-functional, enterprise complexity you're describing.

My background is banking software, a domain where compliance, security, and trust carry the same weight your enterprise customers expect from AI code review and governance. Complex, regulated, high-stakes products are where I've spent my career.

At Q2 I joined a 6-person design team and helped grow it to 40+ designers, researchers, an accessibility specialist, and managers, eventually leading 15 designers and 2 managers directly as Director. I built a tracking system that managed 75+ features a quarter, the kind of cross-functional rigor your global hubs in Austin, Bochum, Dubai, Geneva, London, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington D.C. will need at CVP scale.

I've been building daily with Claude Code since leaving Q2 in November 2024, the same class of tool your platform reviews. I understand the agentic development cycle from the builder's side, because I work inside it every day.

This isn't my first finish line.

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Outcomes, not outputs.

$1B
Funded Assets on the Product I Designed at Q2
5M+
Users on Q2's Platform
3 months
Zero to Shipped, Dual-Sided App at FieldPay
85%
Workflow Time Cut With AI-Built Automation Pipelines
<1 quarter
For Shadow Spreadsheets to Disappear After the Dispute Queue Redesign
6 → 40+
Design Org I Helped Scale at Q2
The Work

Funded Accounts: Scaling Banking UX to $1B

A banking product with competing stakeholders and zero room for compliance error, taken from redesign to $1B in funded assets.

The Problem

Funded Accounts was a complex, multi-stakeholder banking product at Q2. Bank admins and end users pulled in different directions, and every decision sat inside high-stakes compliance constraints.

What I Did

I led a 5-designer team through a complete UX overhaul. I drove cross-functional alignment across Product, Engineering, and Compliance, ran user research directly with bank customers, and iterated in sprints.

Outcome

The product reached $1B in funded assets, with measurable improvement in user task completion along the way.

“Don is an experienced and exceptional UX leader, fully capable of managing and growing a large design team. Any company would be fortunate to have him.”

Lisa Wade  ·  Senior Director, Q2  ·  Don's manager for several years

Why This Role

Sonar sits at the exact point where AI-generated code needs a trusted, human layer of judgment, the same problem I've spent my career solving in complex, regulated software. Your CVP of Design role asks for someone who can own design vision end-to-end, scale a global org, and represent design at the executive table. I've done all three at Q2, and I've spent the year since leaving building daily inside the same agentic tools your platform reviews. I want to bring that scaling experience and that AI-native fluency to a company that's already the leader in this space.

Let's talk about scaling Sonar's design org.

Sonar, you need someone who can own this design org at CVP scale. I've built that org before, held the line when product pushed back, and I already work inside the same AI tools your platform governs. Let's talk about what the next chapter looks like.

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