Product Design Leader · Hybrid Barcelona & London, or Remote · UK & EU right to work · ● Open to roles
Product Design Leadership for SaaS, AI, and Enterprise Products.
Hi, I'm Derry Birkett. I help SaaS and AI companies simplify complex products, scale design systems, and deliver measurable product outcomes. Previously I led UX at CloudBees and delivered design systems and enterprise product initiatives for Oracle NetSuite.
I work best where depth matters: untangling information architecture, building research rigour, and setting the quality standards that make the team around me better.
Four anchor cases show the through-line: organisation design at CloudBees, enterprise systems at Oracle Netsuite, 0→1 product work at Exabyte, and full-stack UX leadership at Telanto.
I write about design systems, UX maturity, and AI-assisted product work, and keep a blog archive of demos and experiments when the idea needs to be felt rather than explained.
A calm, mobile-first design system — tokens, components, nine interactive patterns, and a shadcn registry theme.
Agent
Curator
A scheduled read-only agent that scans the codebase overnight and files GitHub issues for dead exports, oversized files, and stale placeholders — without ever touching the code.
Tool
Delta
An autonomous system that installs as a git submodule and delivers a daily pull request via GitHub Actions — AI agents pick what to build, write the spec, and ship the code.
Agent
Ledger
A daily audit agent that checks whether the Delta Suite pipeline did what it was supposed to do overnight — silent on success, opens a ledger/gap GitHub issue when something diverged.
Agent
Merge
A GitHub Actions agent that enforces a 24-hour review window and runs an AI safety check before merging or blocking any PR — part of the MakerSuite trilogy alongside Delta and Council.
Agent
Council
A repository of role-based advisor plugins — CTO, CISO, Developer, Product — installable as a git submodule. Each advisor has explicit scope, playbooks, and escalation rules. Part of the MakerSuite pipeline alongside Delta, Merge, and Ledger.
Tool
NVSBL
A three-repo suite built around a central question: can autonomous agents continuously discover product opportunities and surface the best ones for review? An invisible engine scans and scores signal, a public API packages approved findings, and an authenticated app closes the loop from discovery to delivery.
Tool
Bloom
A suite of composable repositories — Idea, Stack, Soul, Shulkerbox — that connects discovery, definition, and delivery for AI-assisted product development without losing governance.
Prototype
pip
An overgrown but working governance prototype: mission docs, agent roles, workflow patterns, project graphs, and a publishing surface — built before the architecture was fully understood, then decomposed into Bloom.
Bloom: The Meta-System for Compounding Product Development
2026Article
How I stopped accumulating accidental scaffolding across projects and built a meta-system that makes every product inherit the best decisions from every product before it.
