Vetted Figma Professionals

“Frontend/design-systems specialist who has owned large-scale browser UI platforms in Norway's finance and insurance sector at Gjensidige and Fremtind. They stand out for modernizing design systems across fragmented legacy React stacks while improving accessibility, developer experience, and long-term maintainability in regulated environments.”

“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.”

“QA professional from fintech/SAP security and complex identity systems who has owned end-to-end testing across the SDLC, including being the sole QA on a high-risk payment platform carrier migration. Demonstrated strength in integration testing, data integrity validation, and diagnosing calculation/automation defects using controlled test data and scripted date emulation; experienced with JIRA/TestRail and Selenium-based regression coverage.”

William Armstrong

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Product Engineer specializing in AI and SaaS

San Francisco, CA1y exp

“Product intern at an AI startup (AdvisorGPT) who helped turn an LLM-based prototype into a production SEO blog-generation workflow that matched a firm’s tone/voice and targeted specific search phrases. Strong at bridging technical and non-technical teams, rapidly learning new AI tooling, and driving adoption through customer calls, UX improvements, and customer-facing demos/workshops.”

“Unity/C# AR developer who built a Pokemon Go-like location-based gameplay system end-to-end, spanning backend geospatial filtering (bounding box + Haversine), native iOS location/heading plugins, and Unity AR/UI/spawn logic, with a strong focus on real-world reliability issues like GPS drift. Also prototyped an AI pipeline combining on-device Core ML image segmentation with cloud-hosted PiFU HD (Docker/Kubernetes on GCP with GPU provisioning), ultimately shelving it due to cost/latency and model reliability constraints.”

“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

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

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

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

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.”

“Product leader with experience driving a major international digital platform overhaul at ESPN, unifying fragmented sports properties and delivering a 30% retention lift. More recently, they have been building a human-centered AI mental health product focused on provider-guided follow-up, and they bring a personal, long-standing commitment to educational equity through tutoring and community math programs.”

“Product engineer/designer with founder mindset who shipped a blockchain-enabled investor group/governance platform using Next.js (App Router), TypeScript, Prisma/Postgres, and Temporal. Emphasizes auth-centric onboarding (SSO + embedded wallet) to make dApp UX feel more like SaaS, and brings strong reliability practices (idempotent retries, reconciliation) plus experience demoing to investors and operating in seed-stage teams (ex-Vouched).”

“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

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

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.”

“Frontend engineer who led an enterprise customer-facing analytics dashboard end-to-end, handling complex visualizations, real-time updates, and high-performance requirements. Demonstrates strong architecture and scale practices across React/TypeScript, Redux Toolkit/RTK Query, GraphQL, and performance techniques like virtualization and code-splitting, plus disciplined QA/rollout with feature flags, Cypress, Sentry/New Relic, and Lighthouse.”