Red Rover

Founder

CYMATRAX	
Biotech SaaS transforming audio experiences through advanced technology, fostering enhanced memory, reduced stress, and heightened focus for optimal productivity. 

Product Designer
Enhanced user experience by addressing usability issues and executing strategic design processes, including stakeholder interviews and design system evolution.
- Prevented a potential $100,000 annual revenue loss and 175 customers, saving 240 developer hours, and avoiding a 2-month project delay by emphasizing user-friendly designs and workflow.
- Drove a UX redesign and design system implementation, ensuring brand consistency. Established a unified identity, potentially expanding market share in brand initiatives for the company.
- Mitigated dissatisfaction, resolving 22 usability issues, fostering ongoing feedback in stakeholder interviews, and enhancing clarity and information architecture for a intuitive product experience.

WAGS UNITE	
A social meetup app connecting dog owners through vibrant community and positive experiences. 
  	
Product Designer
Elevated UX, launched app at WebSummit 2023, attracting investors, driving expansion, and loyalty.
- Uplifted user experience, advancing accessibility with a 90% improvement. Revitalized screens, encouraged collaboration for streamlined interfaces and intuitive design enhancements.
- Debuted app at WebSummit '23, revealing growth potential with a favorable user experience. Enhanced information architecture and optimized designs, attracting investor attention.
- Optimized clarity, minimized errors and accelerated development, saving 320 work hours. Organized screens and fostered collaboration, improving workflows to enhance team's efficiency.

Product Designer

Mission Box Solutions

Catalyzed growth and visibility, revitalizing engagement by tripling brand recognition and amplifying web traffic through strategic marketing initiatives.

- Boosted platform engagement by initiating, designing, and launching three educational e-books, resulting in 500+ email sign-ups and 100+ leads within 24 hours, enhacing customer attraction..

- Amplified brand awareness 3X through strategic content placement on industry blogs, podcasts, and online magazines; yielding increased visibility and recognition among the target audience.

- Increased website traffic by  50% through analyzing organic content strategy, crafting targeted content for personas, and mapping buyer's journey—boosting online visibility and engagement.

Marketing Strategist & Senior IT Recruiter

Full Desk Technical Recruiter

Cadensi

Inspired client growth by developing compelling storytelling-focused content, fostering brand loyalty, and substantially increasing web traffic for enhanced online visibility and engagement.

- Transformed social media engagement, captivated the target audience, and achieved a 2,200% growth rate over two months by developing a storytelling-focused content strategy for clients.

- Pioneered and executed a B2B subscription-based social media platform, slashing planning time from 3 days to under 15 minutes monthly in four months, ensuring posting consistency for clients.

- Heightened brand recognition by 80% between 12 clients, strategizing and designing 1,700+ visuals over 12 months, enhancing online visibility and engagement.

Social Media Strategist

Air Essentials, LLC

- Streamlined the delivery of service presentations to a digital format, improving customer communication by 30%

- Increased sales ROI by over 40% through cross-functional team meetings, feedback, and collaboration

Executive Sales Manager

STARK Industries

• Project Build Out - Planned, organized, and executed the build-out of a new location including the coordination of contractors and vendors, monitoring to ensure costs and timelines stayed on track, and implementation of new systems and processes to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs.

• Contributed to strategy development by identifying 200+ product opportunities, and creating partnerships with 30+ third-party vendors, to accelerate time to market by 2 months. 

• Conducted a series of meetings with key stakeholders to solve complex project scheduling issues and establish 100% project track realignment.

• Counseled support teams to ensure issues and client feedback were addressed, resulting in a 25% increase in customer satisfaction.

• Streamlined the design revision process by 50%, reducing the time to complete design requests from 2 weeks to 1 week, by creating a design request form and a monthly design revision calendar.

• Spearheaded directing teams to address client issues, resulting in a 25% increase in client satisfaction.

Assistant Program Manager

🔥 Product Designer | 3 Years of Visual Design Excellence | Proficient in Figma & Protopie✨ | Open to Remote Opportunities

I'm a Product Designer with 5+ dynamic years crafting impactful designs in SaaS, social apps, tech recruitment, and startups. 

I've averted $100,000 in potential losses, launched an MVP app at WebSummit, and 3X brand recognition through strategic marketing. I also recently obtained certifications in HTML/CSS and am currently learning Javascript.

Most recently, I played a key role in improving the user experience of a bootstrapped Biotech SaaS startup by tackling usability issues and implementing strategic design processes, which included conducting stakeholder interviews and evolving the design system. Drove a UX redesign and the implementation of a design system to ensure consistent branding, thereby establishing a cohesive identity that could potentially enhance the company's market share in brand initiatives.

I specialize in designing intuitive and engaging digital products, with a primary focus on language learning apps, travel planning apps, and recruitment marketing software. 

As a Product Designer, I excel in both UX and UI design, particularly emphasizing information architecture, accessibility, and skeuomorphic elements. My sweet spot lies in creating consumer-facing experiences for adult users. I thrive in remote work environments and prioritize collaboration with developers, marketers, and leadership. 

My problem-solving expertise centers around AI integration, innovation, differentiation, and ensuring optimal usability and accessibility. Proficient in Figma, Protopie, and Marvel, I am committed to continuous learning, including expanding into web development with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

I'm open to fully remote, flex-schedule opportunities. Please send me a DM or email me at sanders.samc@gmail.com.

Samantha Sanders

Beyond UX Design Podcast

Host

Edge Kase Design Co.

We specialize in guiding founders and software teams through the entire design lifecycle, from shipping products to building robust, long-term design operations and processes.

• Strategic Alignment: Collaborate closely with founders and stakeholders to align design strategies with business goals, ensuring cohesive and impactful user experiences.
• Streamlined Design Operations: Develop and implement streamlined design operations and processes, resulting in improved efficiency and consistency across client projects.

Design Partner

Retro Time // A Software Podcast

• Co Host of a witty and entertaining podcast, centered around software development and the skills you need to make it in the industry.
• Discussions include deep dives into various topics related to the software development and tech industries, ranging from soft skills to technical skills.

Co Host

Freelance

• Work closely with clients to turn broad conceptual ideas into creative, award-winning
digital and traditional work, including responsive websites, identities and print collateral.

Clients: Dat Dog, Acme Oyster House, The Rum House, Sodexo, The Dalai Lama, Delfeayo Marsalis, Susan Guidry

Freelance Designer

GE Aerospace

• UX Domain Leadership for External Presence: Led a diverse team for Commercial Engine Operations, driving design excellence in GE Aerospace.
• Legacy Tools Unification: Transformed disparate tools into a cohesive user experience for clients like Delta and FedEx, enhancing usability.
• Strategic Vision for GE Aerospace: Defined the vision for customer-facing software, aligning the product roadmap and business goals.
• User Research and Engagement: Conducted research and ethnography, uncovering pain points that informed improvements and boosted user engagement.
• Empathy and Alignment Building: Fostered empathy and team alignment through storytelling, enhancing collaboration and innovation.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Achieved consensus with diverse stakeholders, ensuring project success and effective communication.
• Process Simplification: Clarified complex processes with service blueprints, streamlining operations and enhancing efficiency.

Senior Staff Experience Architect

• UX Domain Leadership: Led Core Services teams for Commercial Engine Operations, enhancing business solutions.
• Feature Definition: Defined shared features like global search and navigation, streamlining user accessibility.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Worked with designers, researchers, and engineers to build consistent interactions, reducing redundancy and fostering reuse.
• Business Improvement Identification: Identified opportunities to boost adoption and user efficiency in executing complex processes, driving business growth.

Staff Experience Architect

• UX Leadership for SmartShop: Spearheaded an enterprise MRO SaaS app for GE Aviation and GE Power, enhancing industry solutions.
• Global Team Management: Led four UX designers across the US and Europe, supporting SmartShop's development and collaboration.
• Product Vision Alignment: Defined feature roadmap, priorities, and timelines with stakeholders, ensuring strategic focus.
• UX Strategy Execution: Orchestrated SmartShop's UX strategy, including research and workshops, for cohesive design implementation.
• Global Research Leadership: Conducted on-site research at GE service shops worldwide, driving usability insights and design improvements.
• UI Design System Development: Created SmartShop's UI design system, including Sketch libraries, accelerating engineering workflow.
• Design Consistency Assurance: Facilitated critiques for consistent functionality and interactions, improving user experience.
• Sprint Coordination: Managed UX resources bi-weekly, optimizing engineering team support and efficiency.
• User Insight Delivery: Presented "ShopTalk" series, sharing research learnings with engineering teams, fostering collaboration and understanding.

Staff UX Interaction Designer // Design Lead SmartShop

Black Valley

Mentoring aspiring designers as part of an eight-week intensive program. Helping to provide real-world experience, portfolio reviews, and interview coaching.

Design Mentor

GE Digital

• UX Leadership: Led SmartShop, an enterprise MRO SaaS app for GE Aviation and GE Power, driving innovation.
• Global Team Management: Led four UX designers across the US and Europe, supporting four developer teams on SmartShop.
• Product Vision Alignment: Collaborated with stakeholders to define feature roadmap, priorities, and timelines, ensuring strategic alignment.
• UX Strategy Execution: Established and executed SmartShop's UX strategy, including research and workshops, for cohesive design.
• Global Research Coordination: Led research efforts at GE service shops worldwide, informing usability and design insights.
• UI Design System Development: Created and maintained SmartShop's UI design system, accelerating engineering implementation.
• Design Consistency: Facilitated design critiques to ensure consistent functionality and interactions, enhancing user experience.
• Sprint Coordination: Managed UX resources to support bi-weekly engineering sprints, optimizing workflow.
• User Insight Delivery: Presented the "ShopTalk" series, sharing user research learnings, enhancing collaboration and understanding.

• UX Leadership: Led SmartShop, a global initiative for GE Aviation and GE Power, enhancing software design.
• Team Collaboration: Worked with developers, analysts, and clients to align on project objectives.
• Client-Centered Research: Conducted research and interviews to tailor solutions to client needs.
• Intuitive Design: Translated user stories into user-friendly interfaces for SmartShop.
• Interactive Prototyping: Utilized Axure to craft high-fidelity prototypes, enabling effective design validation.
• Agile Development: Applied Agile methodologies for rapid iteration of prototypes, ensuring responsiveness.

Sr UX Interaction Designer

GE Power

• UX Leadership: Led UX for Brilliant Repair Services at Greenville Service Center, driving design excellence.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnered with developers, analysts, and clients to align on product goals.
• User Understanding: Conducted research and interviews to tailor solutions to client needs.
• Intuitive Design: Translated user stories into user-friendly interfaces for Brilliant Repair Services.
• Prototyping: Created interactive prototypes with Axure, enabling real-world design testing.
• Agile Development: Applied Agile methodologies for rapid prototype iteration, enhancing adaptability.

UX Interaction Design Lead

Peter Mayer

• Worked with a multi faceted team to develop a wide array of digital advertising solutions
including sales sites, landing pages, emails, and other digital marketing material.
• Transitioned peteramayer.com to HubSpot’s marketing platform.
• Mentored traditional designers to successfully design dynamic digital deliverables.

Clients: Zatarain’s, Sanderson Farms, Hancock Bank/Whitney Bank, Emerald Coast,
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

Web Developer

Radolo

• Simplified complex requirement documentation and user flows into intuitive user
interfaces, dashboards and reports for both desktop and mobile applications.
• Worked with engineers to develop pixel perfect, standards compliant applications.
• Involved in many aspects of software development including requirements gathering,
wire framing, prototyping, development, testing, launch, and ongoing maintenance.
• Developed and maintained an evolving design library of assets and style guidelines.
• Mentored junior designer to help shape their process and evolve their design skills.

Clients: American Dental Association, Aptify, Geiger, ASAE, Align, Aptify, BetterBookClub.com, Dudley Debosier,LLP.

User Experience Designer // Front End Developer

🎙️ Podcast Host @ Beyond UX Design // 💡 Engaging Industry Insights // 🥸 Joke Maker // 🧔 Dad

👋 My name is Jeremy and here are some things I want you to know about me:

💪 I'm passionate about the product.
✏️ I'm dedicated to design.
🤝 I'm crazy about collaboration.
🍬 I'm sweet on soft skills.
🔮 I'm entranced by the end users.
🏁 I rally around research.

But most importantly, I believe you can't build great software without great relationships.

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