Blackwell Security - Pulse Platform
Head of Product Design
Role:
2023-2025
Year:
Background:
Healthcare is the most attacked industry in the world, making hospitals, clinics, and patient-care environments prime targets for ransomware, lateral movement, and device exploitation.
Blackwell’s mission was to provide powerful cybersecurity capabilities in a platform that was simple enough for small, resource-constrained healthcare teams to use effectively. The goal was to surface what matters, reduce cognitive load, and help analysts respond faster with confidence..
Problem Statement:
Healthcare Organizations needed a clearer, easier to use way to identify and manage high-risk alerts and risky assets across multiple hospital sites, and focused on healthcare-specific data sources.
Work Performed:
Leading a small team of contractors (and handling a lot of the work hands-on), we delivered:
Discovery workshops with Design Partners (Healthcare industry Security experts
Produced several low fidelity mocks and prototypes, validating core concepts
Created a design system
Created a North Star prototype which was successfully used to raise a $13M Series A round
Ideated, prototyped and designed all key pages for Blackwell Pulse, a healthcare-specific cybersecurity platform
Examples of Early Low-Fidelity Concepts
Examples of Design System Work
Examples of High Fidelity Designs
Why It mattered:
The work I led at Blackwell established the foundational design for the entire platform and directly drove the company's core product development efforts.
It gave Blackwell a clear product story, a coherent user experience, and a set of workflows that created early momentum with customers and investors.
These foundations supported fundraising and go to market efforts by showing a credible, differentiated product vision.
The design framework and the features the team designed continued to guide feature development through 2025 and remained the basis for ongoing product work after Blackwell was acquired that same year.