Aaron Hays

Authority Signal

Founder

Alterfy

Co-Founder & Director of CS

Rockbot

Account Director

Optimizely

Manager - Onboarding / Implementation

ZoomInfo

Customer Onboarding  Manager

Gordon Food Service

Project Manager

Booking.com

Account Manager

I help SaaS leaders build trust, visibility, and inbound opportunity on LinkedIn | Writer on SaaS leadership, reputation building, and content that converts

I'm currently in a full-time SaaS leadership role while building Authority Signals, where I help other SaaS professionals grow their presence, sharpen their voice, and attract opportunity, without needing to go viral.

After more than a decade in SaaS, leading CS teams, building onboarding playbooks, and navigating the emotional pressure of being “the glue” - I realized something:

Great work doesn’t speak for itself.

Many of the most capable operators I know stay invisible online. They lead quietly, burn out privately, and get passed over for louder, flashier people.

I help them change that.

I work with SaaS leaders - especially in CS, GTM, and RevOps, to clarify their voice, tell the truth about their leadership journey, and build real visibility on LinkedIn.

I’m not a coach, and I’m not here to make you post every day.

Through my Leadership Narrative Sprint, I help mid-to-senior professionals reposition themselves around trust, clarity, and authority, not hustle or fluff.

I also write about the emotional reality of modern leadership:

Burnout from invisible labor

Boundaries in high-stakes roles

Building trust without performative branding

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If you’re tired of doing great work in silence, and you want your next opportunity, client, or promotion to find you, I’d love to help.

📩 DM me “Leadership” to see how the Sprint works.
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Part of the bottom 99% of designers. Building Kleo. Serving teams with fractional product design.

I help product teams move faster with fewer bottlenecks.Trusted by startups who have raised over $350M.I’ve partnered directly with founders, PMs, and heads of design.Web + mobile. Fast-paced. Strategic + hands-on.U.S.-based and async-friendly.If you need part-time design that feels full-time reliable, reach out. ⤵https://tidycal.com/trevordesign/chat-with-trevor

Trevor Nielsen

My Monday morning hot take:
AI hype is louder than AI adoption.

If you only read social media, you’d think:
Designers are dead.
Developers are dead.
Entire teams replaced overnight.

That has not been my experience.

I have worked with strong product teams recently.
Modern. Talented. Moving fast.

Most of them are experimenting with AI.
Dabbling. Testing. Exploring.

They are not rebuilding their workflows around it.
They are not replacing entire departments.

Adoption is much slower than the internet suggests.

A lot of what we see online is clickbait.

“AI is taking your job.”
“If you’re not using it, you’re behind.”

Fear drives comments.
Comments drive reach.
Reach drives sponsorships.

But inside real product teams, the tone is calmer.

Here’s what I think is true.

You should try AI.
There is no reason to avoid it.

But the idea that you are “falling behind” if you are not using it constantly makes no sense to me.

If AI does what it promises, it makes your job easier.

So how are you behind for understanding how to build products without it?

If you can design well without shortcuts, you understand fundamentals.

AI should amplify skill.
Not replace it.

The bigger risk I see is homogenization.

So many products are starting to look the same.
Same layouts.
Same patterns.
Same tone.

The work that stands out now is the work where someone thought harder.
Pushed further.
Added originality.

That matters more than ever.

And think about this..

Designers have been using UI kits for years.
Design systems.
Component libraries.
Shared patterns.

We have always built on top of existing work.

AI is not some alien concept.
It is a faster remix machine.

The internet makes this feel like a revolution happening overnight.

Inside teams, it feels more like gradual experimentation.

AI is not the apocalypse.
It is not the miracle either.

It is a tool.

And tools tend to amplify whoever is holding them.

Freelance Product Designer | Helping teams build great products

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