Vetted Design Professionals in the NYC Metro

“Marketing designer/art director with hands-on motion design (After Effects) who built high-polish social and podcast creative, including defining a podcast brand end-to-end. Experienced creating scalable, high-volume report and event branding systems, evolving agency templates into in-house frameworks while serving as the quality gatekeeper across stakeholders from SMEs to C-suite.”

Briggs Clinard

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Mid-level Product Designer specializing in UX/UI for sports data and analytics

Brooklyn, NY5y exp

“Product Designer 2 with strong end-to-end ownership on Opta Graphics, a self-service platform for sports content creators. They combined client research, design systems rigor, and analytics-based iteration to launch core workflows like open canvas, brand kits, and a consolidated asset library, contributing to customer win-backs and new client onboarding.”

“Product designer at early-stage startup Pomu who combines user research, systems thinking, and hands-on implementation to shape product direction—not just screens. She helped redirect the core search experience from keyword-only to image-plus-keyword based on founder interviews, collaborated directly with ML engineering, and also codes polished front-end interactions on her own portfolio site.”

Drumil Mistry

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Intern Frontend Engineer specializing in React and Next.js

New York, NY0y exp

“Frontend-focused full-stack developer who built ApplyFlow, a job application tracking platform with reusable dashboard and Kanban components, real-time updates, and responsive UX. Also worked on a UI Replay project for visualizing high-frequency user interaction data, showing strength in performance-sensitive React applications.”

Chang Lee

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Director-level fashion professional specializing in menswear design and sales

New York, NY4y exp

“Sales/outbound candidate with strong cold-calling instincts and a consultative, pain-focused approach to winning meetings. In their last role, they drove 108% YoY growth in one market, 118% in another, and expanded the active account base from 6 to 60 by targeting men's specialty stores in the Northeast.”

“Marketing/brand designer with end-to-end ownership experience, including leading a full Boost Insurance brand redesign as the sole designer and updating all existing collateral on a tight deadline. Built a scalable Figma design system/marketing kit supporting high-volume output across paid social, landing pages, email, sales collateral, and website UI, and also produces lightweight marketing videos in Canva/After Effects for social and conference placements.”

“Nontraditional founder-operator who chose entrepreneurship over an MBA and built multiple ventures across sustainability, design, technology, and professional services. He scaled an environmental design firm to 40+ projects before it was acquired by his next company, where as CBO/COO he built a data verification product, grew a fully remote team to 30, and led complex global supply chain and sustainability initiatives with corporates, NGOs, and investors.”

Eloise Yalovitser

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Intern UX/XR Designer specializing in AR/VR and rapid prototyping

New York, NY4y exp

“UX/UI designer with immersive tech focus: built a senior thesis VR beach stone-skipping experience where successful throws triggered real-world receipt-printer outputs, with hand-textured assets and extensive usability iteration for novice VR users. Also designed UI for architectural visualization software during an internship and ran stakeholder-driven research for an AR glasses speech-therapy concept, pivoting the design language to address skepticism around AI framing.”