Featured Work
Hello my name is Jes. I'm a Design Operations Manager and Producer with combined experience working in brand design, product design, content production, and SDLC program management. My expertise is in handling complex initiatives, optimizing workflows, and allocating resources to encourage collaboration across diverse teams and drive strategic outcomes. I have a knack for streamlining processes and utilizing data-driven insights, whether in distributed or on-site teams, to deliver impactful results.
Product Design | Mobile Product Strategy | Product Management
Wohoopa: Women's Fantasy Basketball League App
Led full product development for a fundraising-ready mobile prototype of a women's fantasy basketball league app spanning WNBA, Unrivaled, and FIBA. Delivered competitive analysis, a three-scenario cost model, property-agnostic data architecture, PRD, and a clickable prototype with onboarding flow into seven core screens built on frozen real-season data. Drove key strategic decisions including free-to-play positioning over paid entry and design decisions that prioritize a clear path to league partnership. Tools: Claude Pro, Claude Code, Figma Make
Project Management Consultant | UX Program Management for Google Search Discovery UX within an embedded team was supported by Purple, Rock, Scissors when I project managed deliverable tracking and documentation across multiple workstreams, giving UX leads and stakeholders visibility into scope, project plans, and review cycles. Along with Figma design library audits to surface design debt and system alignment opportunities, I led cross-team communications for weekly status and design approvals to keep delivery moving across the core and extended project teams.
Brand Design | Program Management | Design Operations
For All Turtles partner Carrot, a fertility benefits platform / product for Enterprise B2B services, I led design operations for the Carrot Brand Studio structuring budget tracking, resource allocation, and creative workflows to support a highly valued project portfolio. That operational build gave the team the infrastructure to scale brand and product design work without sacrificing consistency or delivery speed.
UX Design | Website Design | Producer for the Official USA Tourism site VisitTheUSA.com
End-to-end projects delivery for the site's UX and website design work, managing cross-functional teams of designers, engineers, and stakeholders from brief through launch. The site drove a 15% increase in revenue over contract fees and earned 2017 Magellan and WebAward recognition for excellence in tourism website design.
Creative Production | 3D & Motion Graphics
Producer for Toyota, supported by Saatchi & Saatchi LA. I produced 3D and motion graphics content for national Toyota campaigns, coordinating vendor partners including The Mill and Armstrong & White from concept through final delivery. I owned the technical production pipeline, managing color swatch approvals and embargo workflows to keep every asset on schedule and on brand, and queuing asset requests to keep production moving across concurrent campaign deliverables.
