Micah Horvat
is an outcome oriented design leader with proven experience managing design teams and delivering useful and delightful experiences. He has successfully led product redesigns, developed design systems, and driven product-led growth initiatives. Skilled in user engagement, team building, and strategic collaboration.
is an outcome oriented design leader with proven experience managing design teams and delivering useful and delightful experiences. He has successfully led product redesigns, developed design systems, and driven product-led growth initiatives. Skilled in user engagement, team building, and strategic collaboration.
Recent Products
- Currently Product Design Manager at Edge Delta, an observability platform pioneering edge processing and routing.
- Edge Delta provides unprecedented cost control and flexibility for it's customers, in addition to end to end observability and intelligence.
- My team delivered product design increasing the surface area of the platform by 60% in 4 months.
- This provided a full featured observability suite, overcoming market objections that Edge Delta was a niche product.
- Simultaneously maintained a consistent and intuitive experience by iterating on the design system.
- AppOmni is a SaaS Security platform offering a single control surface to manage security posture and threat detection across all of its customers' SaaS products.
- As Product Design Manager, I oversaw an aggressive full product refresh which re-imagined the AppOmni product from the ground up in 6 months.
- The redesign provided a sophisticated feel and drastically simplified experience.
- It introduced new capabilities such as topology mapping, AI remediation guidance, and focused, role-based alerting and prioritization.
- I Managed a team of 12, including Designers, Researchers, and Front End Architects.
- Sonatype is a DevOps suite focusing on OSS component security and management across the software development lifecycle.
- As a Lead Product Designer, I focused primarily on the Lifecycle product, which provides policy authorship and enforcement at various points of the SDLC.
- I designed the first policy configuration workflows and component version compliance visualizations that are still featured prominently in Lifecycle today.
- I was instrumental in the expansion of the design and product teams at Sonatype, recruiting and hiring nine roles from designers to researchers, product owners, design technologists, and a VP of product design
What Colleagues are saying
It's rare to find someone who not only has passion, knowledge, and chops, but can also share, communicate, and educate others on the process behind the work as clearly and kindly as Micah does. With Micah, everything is intentional, and the investment in doing things thoughtfully pays off. I specifically appreciated the effort Micah put into helping our creative team find the ideal crossover between the product and marketing design systems.
Micah is a wonderful design partner and manager and a great supporter and advocate of the design team. He makes sure individual contributors are able to focus on interesting and important work, gives actionable feedback on deliverables, and takes action on feedback that the team provides. I hope there's a another opportunity to work with Micah again.
Micah's expertise in solving complex design problems and his meticulous attention to detail are truly outstanding. Not only did he lead the team with great skill and dedication, but he also created a remarkable remote design studio that was both innovative and efficient. I had the privilege of collaborating with him on rebuilding the design system from the ground up, and his insights and guidance were invaluable to the project's success.