About

I design for scale with a focus on data-driven results.

I’m a product designer who learned the craft by shipping real software.

For the past several years I worked as a product manager, first on BlackRock’s Aladdin platform, then as the sole PM at Pallet, an early-stage, Bain-backed logistics startup. At both, design wasn’t simply a handoff; it was part of my job. I’ve led UI overhauls for a $10M ARR product and built 0-to-1 products from scratch. I’ve run product discovery, watched where people got stuck, and seen whether the things I designed actually worked, always tied to metrics that showed which changes truly mattered.

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A designer's desk by a window: sketchbooks, pencils in a jar and a phone

Amaka Nnaeto

Product Designer

Experience

Version history.

v3.0

Product Manager and Designer

Pallet

2024–2025

v3.0

Product Manager and Designer

Pallet

2024–2025

v2.0

Product Manager

BlackRock, Aladdin Data Cloud

2021–2024

v2.0

Product Manager

BlackRock, Aladdin Data Cloud

2021–2024

v1.0

Product Specialist

BlackRock, Aladdin

2020-2021

v1.0

Product Specialist

BlackRock, Aladdin

2020-2021

Skills

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User Research

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Competitive Analysis

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Interaction design

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Data Analysis

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Accessibility

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Usability testing

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Writing

Tools

Figma

FigJam

Framer

Miro

Linear

Notion

Jira

Pen and paper

Education

Cert

Design Lab, UX Academy

An art school

2026

Cert

Design Lab, UX Academy

An art school

2026

BS

Boston College, Computer Science

Minors in Philosophy and Chinese

2016–2020

BS

Boston College, Computer Science

Minors in Philosophy and Chinese

2016–2020