Resume

Pejman Haft

Senior product designer for complex enterprise SaaS, CRM, analytics, and AI-assisted workflows.

16+ years
Enterprise product design across CRM, data, and analytics tools
SugarCube
Led product design on Sugar's first AI capability
411k+ views
Grew Puroresu Project through product, content, and social strategy

Experience

Founder & Creative Director

Jun 2026 – Present

Puroresu Project, Independent Project

  • Built an interactive archive of Japanese professional wrestling history, turning profiles, timelines, lineage maps, venues, matches, and editorial trails into a connected archive.
  • Own the full product loop: research, information architecture, UX/UI, brand direction, editorial standards, front-end implementation, and growth experiments.
  • Connected product design, editorial storytelling, and social content strategy: 411,381 Instagram views, 139,407 viewers, and 29,762 interactions from July 28 to August 26, 2026. Google Analytics recorded 2,143 active users and 10,543 website views for the same period.

Lead UX Designer

Apr 2024 – Jul 2026

SugarAI / SugarCRM, Orlando, FL (Remote)

  • Worked as part of the product team that built SugarCube, SugarCRM's first AI assistant, designing CRM workflows for insights, summaries, recommendations, and system-generated guidance.
  • Led SugarAI mobile research with five sales reps and tested the visit-centered prototype with two. Feedback informed personal-calendar synchronization on the next-release roadmap.
  • Designed a natural-language report-building concept with direct editing, review, previews, and history. Testing with three sales reps supported offering both chat and direct controls.
  • Partnered with product, engineering, data, and design to turn ambiguous AI capabilities into shippable experiences inside a mature enterprise CRM platform.
  • Led and shipped 2 brand overhauls that unified the UI look and feel across the full SugarCRM product suite.
  • Mentored five designers through product context, critique, and practical design guidance.

Senior UX Designer

Nov 2019 – Apr 2024

SugarCRM, Orlando, FL

  • Designed shipped CRM workflows and dashboards for people working through dense customer and sales data, carrying work from discovery through prototype, implementation, and release.
  • Created reusable flows, prototypes, and design-system patterns that made complex work easier to follow and gave product teams a more consistent foundation.

Senior UX Designer

Sep 2013 – Nov 2019

Hitachi Vantara / Pentaho, Orlando, FL

  • Worked as part of the product team behind Pentaho Data Integration (PDI), making complex data integration and analytics workflows easier to understand across Pentaho’s enterprise products.
  • Created shared patterns, component libraries, and standards for teams working across the Pentaho product suite.
  • Led on-site research and UX design for a Disney ride-maintenance experience that progressed to pilot. Designed portable access to component health and connected maintenance workflows, partnering with a junior designer on production assets.

UX Designer

Oct 2010 – Sep 2017

Avectra / Abila Inc., Orlando, FL

  • Designed core experiences for NetForum Pro and NetForum Enterprise, carrying the work from early sketches through implementation.
  • Redesigned shopping and checkout so membership and commerce tasks were easier to understand and complete.

Visual Designer

Oct 2008 – Oct 2010

Metra Electronics, Daytona Beach, FL

  • Designed catalogs, packaging, and large-format CES and SEMA displays, working with print vendors from concept through final production.