founding designer at a pre-seed startup

I led UX for a stealth start-up for 1.5 years, collaborating with the CEO, PM, eng team, and marketing to develop a 0-to-1 build from concept to developed product.

Role

As a design team of one, I partnered with the CEO and product manager to develop requirements and design experiences to solve a problem in an emerging field — specifically, a platform for early-career job seekers in the e-sports industry to practice interview questions and send recordings to trusted peers for feedback. My contributions included the following:

• Developed a scalable design system

• Defined target users and helped the team visualize journeys for early caterer job seekers, feedback providers, and recruiters

• Partnered with PM and CEO to shape the product into a minimum lovable product through the definition of user stories, centering on two goals for early job seekers

• Developed wireframes, high-fidelity mocks and prototypes

• Led design QA with engineering
  

Result

The startup went through several more pivots after I left, and eventually folded. However, this opportunity strengthened my confidence in working in a startup environment. I also realized I enjoyed wearing different hats, and being close to the action.