Vetted Design Professionals

“Marketing creative designer with both high-polish design and end-to-end video production experience, including leading Workhuman event collateral across landing page/print/deck and producing a Special Olympics Unified Sports episodic social video series. Currently rebuilding a scalable Figma-based newsletter design system optimized for high-volume output across desktop/mobile and light/dark modes with accessibility baked in.”

Stephanie Kline

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Executive Content Strategy & Thought Leadership Leader specializing in B2B growth

North Carolina, US13y exp

“Chief-of-Staff / operations leader who has scaled creative and production organizations through hyper-growth, including growing a creative team from ~30 to 200+ while improving turnaround times and protecting margins. Acts as a founder force-multiplier by installing operating cadences, dashboards, and decision systems, and has built scalable editorial and motion-graphics pipelines tied to growth metrics (e.g., ~$2 CPI and seven-figure media spend scaling).”

“Marketing creative/design systems specialist who led the Renew Communities rebrand end-to-end (logo, typography, color, layout rules) with an emphasis on clarity and scalability across digital, environmental, and print. Builds lightweight, opinionated Figma systems and modular content frameworks for high-volume output, and produces multi-platform marketing video edits using CapCut/Final Cut Pro with reusable templates in an async remote collaboration cadence.”

Gregory Koteles

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Director-level Art Director & Web Designer specializing in UX/UI, branding, and growth marketing

Los Angeles, CA26y exp

“Marketing-focused web and creative designer who ships conversion-oriented Shopify and WordPress redesigns, pairing premium UX/UI craft with practical SEO and measurement (metadata, analytics/KPI tracking, Search Console). Comfortable operating under strict brand guidelines (e.g., Microsoft/Disney) while iterating quickly with growth/product partners, and also produces lightweight, multi-format marketing videos in Adobe Premiere Pro.”

Alexander Mammele

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Senior Technical Designer/Engineer specializing in Unreal Engine and AR/VR interactivity

Manchester, NH9y exp

“UE5 Blueprint-focused gameplay developer who shipped a VR rhythm title (Starwave), owning the player-facing star-hit interaction/feel and iterating heavily through playtests without dedicated QA. Also designed a modular tutorial/quest system by decomposing quests into reusable components so writers could assemble content independently, and has experience debugging Unreal Nav Mesh pathing issues that impacted gameplay and load times.”

“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.”

“CEO & co-founder of Spotlight Creators, a digital platform for visual artists, which they took from idea validation (100 artist interviews) to a live product with 50+ artists and 50+ customers. Drove GTM through hands-on social content across Instagram/YouTube/TikTok, ran local artist spotlight events, and pursued fundraising via cold outreach and acceptance into Launch NY while building skills in pitch decks, financial projections, and ARR modeling.”

“Senior motion designer/creative producer with 15 years of high-end motion, video, and photography experience, including 9 years at Inovalon building enterprise brand systems. Known for translating complex healthcare journeys into polished explainer content and for scalable, modular frameworks that empower large teams (300+ employees). Also integrates generative AI (Weavy + Figma) trained on brand guidelines and original photography to maintain brand consistency at high output volume.”

“Product/UX designer with experience digitizing Penske trucking operations and Ridecell fleet lifecycle/workshop orchestration systems. Designs complex, high-liability industrial workflows using a state-driven interaction model and a calm, high-clarity visual language, backed by targeted field research with drivers and ops teams and strong collaboration with engineers (React/Tailwind, Storybook, code-linked prototypes).”

“Marketing/design creative with experience delivering high-polish brand and web work under complex conditions (including multiple acquisitions), driving measurable growth (2x traffic, +60% organic search, SEO gains across 50+ terms). Also designs product UI in Figma leveraging Material UI patterns and builds modular Instagram video templates in Adobe Premiere/After Effects for scalable content production.”

“Marketing/brand designer with lead design experience on Aurelio's Pizza creative (including a responsive website redesign that improved mobile engagement and 'Order Now' clicks). Also contributed to maintaining and scaling a Figma design system at Cars, upgrading components for Auto Layout consistency and enabling high-volume, modular campaign production with strong async collaboration (Slack/Figma/Jira).”

“Frontend engineer with enterprise B2B and healthcare web experience, specializing in React/TypeScript architectures for complex, permissioned workflows and data-heavy admin dashboards. Has modernized legacy codebases with improved state management (Redux/Zustand/Rematch, IndexedDB caching) and shipped fast Next.js SEO/performance-focused builds under tight deadlines, including measurable bug-ticket reduction via improved error reporting.”

Penny Asawadilockchai

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Mid-Level Product Designer specializing in human-centered UX/UI

Oakland, CA4y exp

“Product/UX designer with end-to-end experience building a borrower-facing intake platform that coordinates AI automation and human review across borrowers, loan officers, and processors. Emphasizes explicit system states, clear handoffs, and exception-based visibility to increase trust in high-stakes underwriting/document workflows, using Figma prototyping and close engineering collaboration to ship feasible, scalable interactions.”

“Marketing designer/motion creative with end-to-end ownership of high-polish B2B assets (EcoLease datasheets and vertical-specific whitepapers) focused on making complex information clear and credible. Builds scalable production systems in Figma and modular After Effects templates so teams (including non-designers) can generate high-volume, on-brand creative across channels and formats.”

“VR/AR game developer and creative leader who has shipped titles to Meta Quest (across Unity/Unreal/Godot) and PlayStation VR. Served as Creative Director and Lead Designer on SafeAR, delivering beyond the brief in a rapid 2-month project, and has also built and coded a Unity mobile puzzle game largely solo.”

“Growth creative specialist who builds and iterates high-volume, platform-native paid social ads for an AI app (Smarter Chat), using performance analytics (hook/hold rates) to engineer creative improvements. Developed a POV/"hidden camera" confrontation concept around infidelity that achieved a $2 CPA and influenced broader creative strategy toward more authentic, unscripted-feeling social content.”

Michelle Engberg

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Senior Creative & Multimedia Design Lead specializing in social-first campaigns and short-form video

9y exp

“Marketing-focused visual/motion designer who leads high-polish campaign concepts through rollout across social, motion, print, and OOH. Notable for building scalable Figma systems and modular creative frameworks that enable fast, consistent high-volume production (including localization) and for streamlining workflows with AI and mid-cycle QA to hit tight deadlines while balancing multiple stakeholder goals.”

FELIPE PEREIRA

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Senior 3D Generalist specializing in game level design and environment art

Campinas, SP10y exp

“Real-time game VFX artist with VR/mobile performance focus, using Unreal Niagara and Unity particle/shader workflows to create readable gameplay feedback (e.g., crystal gate progression cue). Has shipped iterative, playtest-driven VFX in a horror title (Flesh Aberration), collaborating closely with designers and engineers to balance atmosphere with player attention and clarity.”

“Product designer at Cogensus who has owned end-to-end UX for a multi-role AI wellness platform, including dashboard architecture, cross-platform consistency, and production-ready handoff. Particularly strong in simplifying complex wellness and behavioral data into trustworthy, accessible interfaces, and improved team efficiency by cutting design iteration cycles from 4-5 rounds to about 2.”

“Marketing creative/designer who combines creative direction, illustration, and web design with scalable Figma design systems for high-volume output. Uses a hybrid traditional + GenAI workflow for lightweight marketing videos (3D rendering in Adobe Substance, AI animation via Pika, final typography/motion in After Effects) and builds modular template frameworks to generate many on-brand variations quickly in collaboration with UA/growth and product teams.”