Kriss Chaumont - Principal Product Designer & Design Manager

Kriss leads and designs with passion! He's continually pushing the work to be the best it can absolutely be, both his own and for his team. He's been in the industry a long time, but not as a passenger; he's led the team in adapting, innovating, and preparing for the future of design. He's incredibly resourceful and will always find a way to make great work happen! He pours time, care, and thoughtfulness into the growth and development of his team. I had the privilege of working with him as he led design on the most successful digital election night experience in NBC New's history. He ensured high quality work through every stage of the process, from concept through testing and launch. Kriss is a dedicated team player and a super solid and dependable leader.

Kriss has been a dedicated and impactful design team member for over 20 years, consistently delivering high-quality, consumer-centered digital products. He built strong relationships across editorial, design, product, and engineering teams, developed deep insights into audience needs, and played a key role in shaping some of our most successful news apps and websites. Most recently, his work on the 2024 Elections products contributed to record-breaking online traffic. Kriss is an exceptional product designer, and any team would benefit greatly from his experience, creativity, and leadership.

Kriss is an incredible UX Design leader. My role at NBCUniversal was to build an enterprise accessibility program. I knew when I started in early 2020, that our success would depend on getting our Designers to the table - engaged, learning, and practicing inclusive design. Kriss was the first person at that table for our News group, and he stayed, and learned, and advocated, and led, and practiced, and shared, and modeled for his organization, and again, led.

I had the pleasure of working closely with Kriss on NBCNews.com through 2 major election cycles - first the 2022 midterm elections, and then the 2024 Presidential election. Each time, I saw Kriss not only tackling many complex design problems in general, but also leaning into inclusive design practices, directly engaging with people from the disability community, and integrating those learnings for his whole team.

I couldn't have asked for a better Design partner and leader than Kriss. The fact that he also happens to be incredibly fun and joyful to work with is just icing on the cake!

I've had the great pleasure of working with Kriss for the past seven years at NBC News, where he has consistently proven himself to be an exceptional UX design lead and a trusted collaborator. Kriss brings a rare combination of creativity, adaptability, and thoughtfulness to every project he touches.

As a Software Engineering Lead, I’ve partnered closely with Kriss on numerous high-impact initiatives, including our election coverage experiences. His design insight and deep understanding of both user needs and technical constraints have been instrumental in creating interfaces that are visually compelling, highly intuitive, and beautiful. Kriss has an innate ability to balance aesthetics with usability; he always considers the bigger picture when pitching new ideas.

Kriss consistently goes above and beyond to ensure the end product meets the highest standards of quality. He’s someone you can count on to deliver smart, strategic, and user-centered design solutions, making him an invaluable asset to any team. I can’t recommend him highly enough.

Kriss is a powerhouse builder. He's great to work with and is proactive in wielding AI to create detailed and robust products and prototypes that help align stakeholders, from design leadership to PMs to engineers. He's also a delight to work with - positive, upbeat and enthusiastic, great at taking and giving feedback, proactively looking for opportunities to add more value to the team.

I worked with Kriss on the Money Movement Platform team at PayPal, where he owned In-Store QR design and visual QA. He migrated our Show-to-Pay flow from legacy to current architecture, designed the QR full-screen takeover experience, and built the Replit prototype we used for leadership demos. Beyond design, he raised dozens of visual QA bugs himself, catching issues before they reached customers.

Kriss also built two internal AI tools on his own initiative: a FigJam summarizer and a content accessibility checker, then ran pairing sessions to teach teammates to build their own. That combination, strong craft plus a drive to make the whole team faster, is rare.

He asked sharp questions before diving into a design and earned trust from engineering and content partners on judgment calls, not just execution. Any team would be lucky to have him. Great work Kriss!