Product design & experience strategy for regulated marketsExperience and AI counsel across product, strategy, and marketing for pharma, biotech, fintech, and agency teams.

Capizzi
Shawn Capizzi

Trusted by leaders across:

  • Pfizer
  • Bloomberg
  • Samsung
  • Columbia Business School
  • OpenAI
  • IPG Health

I help teams bring clarity to complex content and AI-powered products, and ship them on time. Defensible enough to launch. Leadership, advisory, or on call.

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Engagement model

How I work with teams

A flexible relationship that changes as business needs do. Start with a single piece of work and grow from there. Move between the options as needs change: the intensity flexes, the partnership holds. Not sure which? Share your goals or pain points and we'll figure it out together.

Leadership

Bring me in

For agencies and in-house pharma, healthcare, and enterprise teams that need senior UX, IA, and content strategy leadership inside live work: campaigns, platforms, sites, apps, sales tools, and regulated brand programs.

I work directly with creative directors, account leads, technologists, dev teams, copywriters, and visual designers on digital brand and product work. Deliverables include engagement strategy, site architecture, user flows, wireframes, content frameworks, RC and pitch decks, and design system governance and refinements.

Advisory

Hire me to advise

Senior strategic counsel without a full-time hire: product design, AI adoption, engagement strategy, design system governance, multi-brand experience strategy, and regulatory program redesign.

Strategic Snapshot
A focused diagnostic for a single, well-defined problem. Single deliverable.
Engagement Sprint
A scoped piece of work carried out over a few weeks. Defined problem, clear outcome.
AI Opportunity Diagnostic
I come in, ask the right questions, and help uncover where AI fits in your actual workflows and business model. Vendor-agnostic. Roadmap, not vendor list.

On Call

Keep me on call

A monthly retainer for leaders who want a senior thinking partner on hand between the big decisions. Reserved for a small number of teams so the access stays real.

  • Working sessions on the decisions that matter, on your cadence
  • Async document and decision review between sessions
  • Slack or email access for fast calls when timing is tight
  • Quarterly strategic alignment review tied to current goals

Case studies

Selected work

Engagements where experience structure changed the business outcome.

Words from collaborators

What people have said

As a UX leader and Subject Matter Expert, he provided essential governance and content strategy for our brand's new design system and platform migration across indications for both HCP and DTC.

Courtney McKnight

Courtney McKnight

Brand Account Manager

Shawn is a rare talent who seamlessly blends strategy, research, and visual design. His energetic thinking elevates design while his collaborative spirit makes him invaluable.

Dave Derby

Dave Derby

Group Director, Strategy and Service Design

Shawn's data-driven approach to UX and seamless cross-functional collaboration is exceptional. He truly understands the nuances of healthcare UX.

Anthony Danzi

Anthony Danzi

VP, Analytics

Technically savvy, and a content strategist with a keen understanding of visual design — Shawn expertly balances user needs with business objectives while advocating for CX and UX best practices.

Marcel Dumont

Marcel Dumont

Director of Project Management

In the studio

My systems in your pocket or on your bookshelf

Tools (physical and digital) that come out of 15+ years of practice in marketing and experience design. Built for helping your teams or family think through solutions with greater efficacy and focus. Full printed versions available soon.

Let's talk through your challenges.

30 minutes. Virtual. It will be time well spent.