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

Edward Jones

Design Lead

- Successfully designed and released a firm-wide OCR application upgrade to 15,000 branches across the US and Canada.
- Deployed an app that creates thousands reference portfolios in one-click for our branches.

What I do day to day:
- Design custom component libraries to scale our investment software suite
- Create UX design deliverables based on research, qualitative feedback, and quantitative feedback from our Financial Advisors and Branch Office Administrators.
- Design incremental improvements to our systems across 3-6 product teams using Agile methodologies. 
- Collaborate with researchers, product managers, business analysts, and developers to deliver high value to our financial advisors.

Contract Designer

Dance Vision

Think of me as the design architect for their entire app.

Created and scaled their design system from the ground up for their new e-learning platform.

Design Systems Lead

Product Designer - UX / UI Designer 

- Facilitating collaborative meetings with business owners and stakeholders to understand which success metrics matter most, learn their overall vision for the company, know what their current solutions are, discover what their struggles are, explore their value proposition, and understand their customers.
- Creating an overall design strategy for their business based on the information I've gained from stakeholders and users.
- Conducting user research and competitive analysis
- Creating user personas for a businesses target audience
- Developing information architecture through user flows, sitemaps, user stories, and content strategy. 
- Designing web/mobile prototypes for stakeholders, users & customers for product testing.
- Developing design systems, brand identity systems, pattern libraries, and style guides for businesses
- Creating graphic, web, and mobile designs for clients
- Implementing Google Analytics and SEO for web-based projects
- Measuring user's overall happiness, adoption, and retention rate in relation to a digital product
- Applying innovative and iterative design principles for the client's current solutions
- Troubleshooting business's current problems in their present digital products
- Collaborating with business owners guiding product management and overall workflow

Past work:
- Built responsive websites and apps for various industries such as travel & hospitality, health & fitness, personal development, performing arts, non-profit organizations, online retail, and now financial services.

Senior Product Designer

National Park Express

- Collaborating in meetings with stakeholders to prioritize which problems to solve and deliver the most value
- Facilitating design workshops with key team members
- Conducting user research and competitive analysis
- Developing design systems, brand identity systems, pattern libraries, and style guides for our travel partner's distribution channels
- Structuring information architecture through user flows, sitemaps, user stories, and content strategy.
- UX/UI Design in collaboration with the development team remotely through Figma and our development environments
- Designing web/mobile prototypes for stakeholders, users & customers for product testing
- Building and launching white-labeled, custom web apps and websites for our partners
- Measuring the user's overall happiness, adoption, and retention rate in relation to a digital product
- Applying innovative and iterative design principles for our various travel e-commerce sites and apps
- Implementing validated design solutions via front-end development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP to interact with our back-end database using Microsoft SQL Server.
- Work through Kanban and Agile sprint cadences in one-week increments

Senior Product Designer & Front-end Developer

Yowza Shop LLC

- Built and designed their fully responsive e-commerce website, continuously maintained all technical aspects of the site, along with its security and SEO. 
- Facilitated marketing, design, and business strategy workshops bi-weekly.
- Designed all graphics for the e-commerce site on a weekly basis. 
- Created illustrations for shirts, hats, and accessories.

UX Designer

American Preparatory Academy

Teaching youth Ballroom and Latin dance styles as part of the character development program at APA.

Dance Instructor

Bloc

- Creating User Experiences and User Interfaces for digital applications for desktop and mobile devices.
- Utilizing Front-end development web technologies HTML, CSS, Javascript & JQuery for web and mobile applications.

UX/UI Design Intern

VZ Dance Studios

- Create a brand new responsive website for VZ Dance Studios while improving their organic SEO to jump from page 7 to page one within one month of deployment. 

- Produced weekly advertising graphics (web/print) and maintained a daily social media presence for special events, holiday promotions, dance competitions, flash mobs, and monthly class calendars.

- Maintained and serviced all tech at the studio including computers, printers, sound systems, and general software usage.

Graphic Web Designer

BALLROOM ADDICTION

Redesigned Ballroom Addiction's website to fit modern responsive web standards with in 3 months, along with building their organic SEO rankings from page three to page one of local rankings.

Teaching Founders & Designers about UX & AI | Design Lead & Engineer (15y exp.)

15 years ago, I couldn't code a single line or design anything in Adobe. 

Today, I transform complex user and business problems into tangible results.

In fact, since I started my design journey:

* I've collaborated with nimble startups and Fortune 500 enterprises
* I've help companies gain 40% more profit in less than 6 weeks 
* I've built scalable front-end architectures for millions of users
* I've designed intuitive interfaces that boost conversion rates by 30%+


Here's what I bring to your team:

→ 15 years of battle-tested UX design & front-end development expertise
→ The rare ability to speak both designer and developer languages fluently
→ A proven track record of turning business requirements into user-centered solutions

The best part? 

I don't just build what you ask for.

I build what your users actually need.

Whether working remotely (without the zoom fatigue) or bringing my custom-built AI-enhanced workflow to your projects. 

I'm the technical-creative hybrid your team is missing.

PS: What if your next hire could eliminate the design-development handoff entirely?

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