Kyle Frost

Kyle Frost

I'm a product designer who works across the entire stack, from pixels and prototypes to code and strategy, bridging design, development, and product at early-stage startups.

I've spent the last 15 years building a skillset that allows me to be comfortable pushing pixels in Figma, building AI workflows, designing programmatic SEO strategies, writing PRDs, prototyping in production, or pushing PRs to fix bugs.

I like building, tinkering, and creating — in product and outside of it. I also write a weekly outdoor industry newsletter, take photos, and have a bit of a second life in the outdoor and travel world.

What I'm looking for

Roles with real autonomy where I can flex across design, product, and code. That could be a founding product role at a smaller startup or a high-impact IC position at a larger company that values experienced designers who can adapt and flex as needed.

I care more about interesting problems than specific industries, though I'm drawn to teams doing unique things with AI. I have unusually deep domain knowledge in outdoor and travel, but I'm by no means limited to those spaces.

Selected work

PermitFlow interface

PermitFlow

An AI-powered construction permitting startup. I led design efforts from pre-Series A through a $55M Series B. I owned design (and a signficant amount of product management) across the core product, AI features, and internal ops tools.

DesignProductAI
Product Hunt interface

Product Hunt

The go-to platform for discovering and launching new tech products. I led design for product discovery and growth, rethinking how people find, evaluate, and categorize products.

DesignSEOGrowth
Outbound community showcase

The Outbound Collective

An outdoor community platform that grew to millions of monthly visitors. I led design and product, working on everything from the programmatic SEO system, writing a weekly email newsletter, planning product strategy, to the mobile app.

DesignSEOGrowth
Borrowed & Blue interface

Borrowed & Blue

A wedding vendor marketplace where I redesigned search and discovery, and rebuilt how locations worked so the platform could grow to a nationwide footprint.

DesignData ArchitectureSEO

Side projects

PackTrak interface

PackTrak

Full-stack app for managing hiking gear lists. Designed and coded everything (auth, database, public sharing) using AI tools to accelerate development.

Side ProjectDesignFull-StackAI
Sift extension interface

Sift

Chrome extension that uses AI to automatically organize bookmarks. Reads page content, picks the right folder. One-click save without the filing headache.

Side ProjectDesignExtensionAI
Indie Outdoors

Indie Outdoors

Curated directory of independent outdoor media, publications, and creators actually worth your time.

Side ProjectDesignWeb
Another Puffy Jacket

Another Puffy Jacket

Retro directory of outdoor gear and news with a nostalgic 90s aesthetic. The web used to be more fun.

Side ProjectDesignWeb