Vetted Design Professionals

“Marketing creative designer focused on high-polish, high-volume output through systems thinking—built cohesive campaign frameworks (e.g., 50+ asset "Refer Olympics") and component-driven Figma files to enable bulk edits and prevent style drift. At Morty, combined After Effects/Premiere with AI tools (Screen.Studio, Synthesia) to ship clear, consistent training/marketing videos faster, cutting timelines by days and reducing stakeholder revision cycles.”

“Marketing creative designer with 7+ years fully remote experience who builds high-polish, scalable multi-channel campaigns across web, email, social, and motion. Led end-to-end creative for AWeber’s “One Galaxy Over” faux-brand initiative (7% lift in users creating email series) and spent 6 years at MeetMe’s internal agency producing desktop gaming product-marketing campaigns using assets from 100+ Fortune 500 brands, including interactive mini-game experiences that drove a 20% engagement increase.”

“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.”

Crystal Marcus-Kanesaka

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Senior Product Designer specializing in onboarding, activation, and product-led growth

20y exp

“Seasoned product strategist and UX-led product leader with ~20 years across education, cybersecurity, Web3, martech, media, and public/private sector work. She combines hands-on AI-enabled product building with large-scale team leadership, including launching zero-to-one cybersecurity learning products, scaling Braintrust programs from 2,500 to 58,000 users, and improving onboarding experiences that helped double ARR to $400M. Her background in underserved K-12 communities and blended learning makes her especially compelling for human-centered AI and educational equity roles.”

Eric Roth

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Senior Motion Designer & Video Editor specializing in high-impact animated marketing content

Boca Raton, FL20y exp

“Marketing creative/motion designer focused on mobile game UA ads, producing high-polish short-form video creatives end-to-end (animation + sound) in After Effects/Cinema 4D. Experienced building Figma-based scalable systems and After Effects templates to generate high-volume variations, and iterating based on performance metrics (CPI/CTR/retention) with an 80/20 experimentation framework in a fully remote workflow.”

“Startup product designer with a CS background who operates at the intersection of UX, product strategy, and implementation. They have owned 0-to-1 design systems, led a research-backed pivot of Fluffle from a solo job tracker to a multiplayer productivity app, and specialize in trust-building UX for AI-native products while working closely enough with engineers to influence production quality.”

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/UX designer with experience building an end-to-end AI campaign/session platform that converted an engineer-led, code-heavy workflow into a self-serve marketer product using a target/act/schedule interaction model, progressive disclosure, and real-time previews. Also redesigned monitoring for Informatica’s enterprise data platform after field research with data engineers, shifting the UI toward lifecycle views and failure-state observability.”

“Marketing designer and project manager with real-estate/leasing creative experience, leading cohesive brand systems across web, print, email, and social for a property portfolio. Builds scalable Figma-based report templates for regional/national teams with very fast update cycles (often <15 minutes) and produces platform-specific marketing videos in Premiere Pro.”

“Marketing creative/designer with a portfolio at https://billrodella.com who claims end-to-end ownership of design work. Mentions building a Figma design system for a major dental brand and producing lightweight marketing videos using Adobe Creative Cloud and Final Cut Pro; targets $125k+ base.”

“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.”

Freddy Hajas

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Principal Gameplay Designer/Programmer specializing in FPS/TPS systems and AI

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil28y exp

“Long-time Call of Duty mod/game-mode creator (Call of Duty Frontlines/Rio) who designed 40+ gametypes, including “Swarm” later released officially as MW3’s Team Defender. Known for deep tuning/balance iteration and for overcoming engine constraints (e.g., expanding limited model slots via load-time model merging to ship large amounts of new weapons/vehicles/enemies). Currently building an UE5 game (Comando Rio) on Lyra, implementing custom audio systems and camera/movement features, collaborating with Gooseman (Counter-Strike creator).”

Anirudh Venkatesh

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Mid-level XR/Unity Developer specializing in AR/VR and immersive applications

Riverside, CA5y exp

“Unity developer with hands-on experience across VR, AR, multiplayer, and AI-driven gameplay systems. They’ve owned end-to-end interaction architecture for VR cognitive testing focused on accessibility, integrated Gemini-based command systems into gameplay, and shipped cross-platform immersive applications spanning Magic Leap 2, iOS, and Photon-powered multiplayer experiences.”