Candescent Sales Trigger: New CDO Sparks UX Pipeline

🚀 Battle Card: Candescent

• Donald Chesnut, Chief Design Officer · 🔗 LinkedIn

• Sellers: this Candescent sales trigger signals a mandate to invest in design-centric capabilities across the digital banking platform. → Source

• Inconsistent UX across modules slowing down feature adoption

• Lengthy design-to-release cycles hindering time-to-market

• Primary: UX analytics platform → Uncover drop-off drivers in new designs — capitalize on the Candescent sales trigger

• Expansion: Design ops automation → Accelerate cross-team releases by 2×

• HQ: Atlanta, GA

• Employees: ≈ 250

• Rev: ≈ $120 M

• Website: candescent.com

🤼 Competitive Intel

• Figma — Design Collaboration
• Unique edge: Real-time multi-user design & prototyping
• Evaluated by Chief Design Officer & UX Managers for cross-team alignment

• InVision — Prototyping
• Unique edge: Integrated user testing & feedback loops
• Evaluated by VP Product & Design Ops for rapid iteration

• Zeroheight — Design System Ops
• Unique edge: Centralized design token management & documentation
• Evaluated by Design Ops Lead for consistency at scale

• Workday — HR / People Ops
• Unique edge: Unified talent management & workforce planning
• Evaluated by VP HR & COO for hiring scalability

• Greenhouse — Recruiting
• Unique edge: Structured interview & analytics pipelines
• Evaluated by Talent Acquisition & HR for improved candidate quality

✅ Do-Now Checklist

Next Step

🧠 Copy My Prompt for Personalized Cold Outreach

────────────────────────────
✏️ YOUR COMPANY
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OUR_COMPANY   = ❑≈ TBD❑
OFFER_BRIEF   = ❑UX analytics platform❑
PROOF_METRIC  = ❑2× faster releases❑
CTA_STYLE     = ❑quick_call❑
TONE          = ❑punchy❑

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📌 TARGET COMPANY
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NAME        = Donald
COMPANY     = Candescent
DEPT        = design
SIZE        = ≈ TBD
BOTTLENECK  = inconsistent UX across modules
EVENT       = Chief Design Officer appointment
DETAIL      = Drive Digital Innovation
PAIN        = Lengthy design-to-release cycles
SRC         = http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=ftfLlWd9aZbF2NXfwppam3Bd664=&newsLang=en&newsId=20250911352564&div=41152219
SIM_CO      = ≈ TBD
WIN_METRIC  = 2× faster releases
NEXT_SIZE   = ≈ TBD
EMP_EST     = ≈ 250
REV_EST     = ≈ $120 M

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TASK FOR CHATGPT
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Role: “NewsletterForLeads SDR-Assist”.

Validate any ≈ guesses via SRC.

EMAIL  (keep breaks):
Subject: ≈ TBD-person design

Donald—noticed your design team is ≈ TBD.

That’s when inconsistent UX across modules slows growth.

We helped ≈ TBD fix this with UX analytics platform.

Result: 2× faster releases.  
Quick call?

PS—next bottleneck hits ≈ TBD.

DM ≤45 words, TONE:
Saw your post about Drive Digital Innovation — Lengthy design-to-release cycles.  
UX analytics platform. 2× faster releases.  
Quick chat?```