UX Director | Enterprise Product Design Leader — 10+ years leading enterprise SaaS & HR technology design teams at ADP

10+
Years directing enterprise UX teams
4-8
Designers led per team, UX Director role at ADP
65%
Client churn reduction, Analytics & Benchmarking redesign
80%
Adoption of redesigned mobile Executive Insights UX
30%
Reduction in engineering tech debt post-launch

Selected Work

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Enterprise UX leadership across desktop analytics, mobile parity, and generative AI product design — all shipped at ADP for HR and Payroll practitioners.

Executive Manager Insights mobile redesign preview
Omni-Channel Experience

Creating a Seamless Multi-Platform User Experience

Redesigned the Executive Manager Insights mobile experience to reach parity with the desktop Practitioner experience — closing a trust and visibility gap for executives and HR practitioners alike.

80% conversion from legacy UI · 30% reduction in tech debt
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Analytics Assist generative AI experience preview
Generative AI & Conversational UX

Optimizing Operational Efficiency with Generative AI

Directed the 0-to-1 vision for Analytics Assist, an NLP-driven, prompt-based experience letting HR and Payroll practitioners query complex data in natural language.

Led alpha-to-North Star vision across 4 design phases
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Effortless Analytics dashboard redesign preview
Enterprise Analytics

Enhancing Customer Retention Through Analytics Redesign

The flagship project above — full teardown of discovery, IA redesign, and detailed design phases behind the 65% churn reduction.

65% churn reduction · 20% CSAT lift
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How I Lead

Leadership principles, backed by evidence

Strategic Vision

Reframed ADP's Analytics IA from a product-focused structure to a thematic, problem-solving framework — the structural decision behind the 65% churn reduction.

Team Leadership & Mentorship

Led design teams of 4-8 designers as UX Director at ADP — directing concept iteration on the Analytics redesign, and coordinating design direction across development leads, product managers, and QA on Executive Manager Insights.

Data-Driven, AI-Forward Strategy

Led discovery-to-North-Star design for ADP's first generative AI analytics assistant, running competitive analysis against Visier, DataGPT, Google, and ChatGPT to shape the product bet.

Core Competencies

Where I operate

Design Leadership

  • UX Strategy & Vision
  • Team Leadership & Mentorship (4-8 designers)
  • Cross-Functional Stakeholder Management
  • Design Systems Leadership
  • Executive Communication
  • Roadmapping & Prioritization
  • Design Thinking

Craft & Practice

  • Information Architecture
  • Interaction & Visual Design
  • Data Visualization
  • Prototyping & Wireframing
  • User Research & Usability Testing
  • Accessibility & Inclusive Design

Domain Expertise

  • Enterprise SaaS
  • HR Technology (HCM)
  • B2B Data Analytics Platforms
  • Generative AI / Conversational UX
  • Mobile & Multi-Platform Design
  • Agile & Lean UX

Tools & platforms: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Axure, Miro, UserZoom, Optimal Workshop, Confluence, Jira, Trello, HTML/CSS

Hafeez Raji, UX Director

About Hafeez

I'm a UX Director with 10+ years leading enterprise SaaS and HR technology design teams of 4-8 designers, most recently directing UX for ADP's Analytics & Benchmarking platform. I specialize in turning complex, data-heavy products into experiences practitioners trust — aligning design strategy with business outcomes like retention, adoption, and revenue growth.

I build design direction top-down (IA, systems, vision) while staying close enough to the work to mentor designers through execution — from wireframe to shipped, measured outcome.