Paige Sáez

AI product engineer based in Oakland, CA, with a deep foundation in human-centered design and systems thinking. I translate complex research and technical architectures into products that are intuitive, resilient, and grounded in mixed-methods insight—bridging research, prototyping, and engineering to align human intent with machine behavior.

I make systems and things for fun and work. AI product engineer at Hamlet, co-founder of Makerlab, consult through Little Cities, and teach research at California College of the Arts.

Now

AI Product Engineer at Hamlet

I lead product and engineering for Hamlet’s core intelligence systems that automatically parse, classify, and summarize local government data across 90,000+ jurisdictions. My role spans architecture, UX, and applied AI: designing data pipelines that turn public meetings into structured, searchable intelligence for real-estate, infrastructure, and policy professionals. I define taxonomy systems, prototype new retrieval and summarization workflows, and build the interfaces and APIs that make civic data usable at scale.

Adjunct Professor at California College of the Arts

Teaching mixed methods user research and product design, and thoughtful integration of AI/ML.

Before

Senior Product Designer at Aurora Solar.

Designed next-generation solar-powered solutions for home and business owners.

Principal Product Designer at All Turtles.

Led design for Carrot Fertility and Surfboard, and drove research for Replika and Talk to Spot, taking each from early concept to launch with lean studies and first-edition design systems. 

Lead Product Designer at Cisco DNA.

Shipped DNA Center’s natural-language command bar and Machine Reasoning dashboard, turning ML insights into plain-English guidance now relied on by 500+ enterprise network admins.

Lead User Experience Designer at Honeycomb.

As the first designer, overhauled navigation, query builder, and heat-map views so engineers could explore high-volume telemetry faster and onboard with less friction. 

UX Director and Curriculum Lead at Designlab.

Founded the UX Academy program—authoring curriculum, rubrics, and assessments—and scaled enrollment five-fold while mentoring 100+ early-career designers worldwide.

Often found sketching, while listening to a painstakingly curated algorithm, and hanging out with Oogi.

2025 Paige Sáez

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