Bob Baxley is a veteran design leader with over 35 years of experience shaping some of the most iconic digital experiences in the world. He currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Design & Experience at ThoughtSpot, where he leads the vision for user experience across the company’s modern analytics platform.

Prior to ThoughtSpot, Bob held senior design leadership roles at Apple, where he helped build the Apple Online Store and contributed to the early days of the App Store and iPhone era. He later led design at Yahoo and Pinterest, bringing deep design thinking and cultural insight to large-scale teams.

Bob is widely respected for his clarity of vision, principled leadership, and thoughtful approach to building high-performing design teams. He’s a frequent speaker and mentor in the product and design community, known for blending historical perspective with hands-on, actionable wisdom. Whether he's talking about team structure, design tenets, or the moral responsibility of software makers, Bob brings a rare mix of humility, humor, and hard-won insight.

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