Jacob Rogelberg Email & Phone Number

Center District, Israel

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Lead product strategy and user experience design for Context 365, a financial services SaaS platform, from idea through business acquisition by Apex Group in under three years.
• Recruited by the CTO as the first product manager, I established company-wide focus metrics and established the research and product design process from the ground up.
• Shipped the fintech app and facilitated $4B+ in capital allocations and 12,000 meetings between family offices, institutional investors, hedge funds, and private equity funds.
• Managed and mentored three direct reports including a design research lead, product design lead, product marketer, and managed resource allocation.
• Key achievements include: leading 100+ sales and marketing demos, closing deals, vendor selection, negotiation, content writing, and redesign of the marketing site, creating an accessible design system, design research.

• Founded a professional design community with over 23,000 global and diverse members.
• Grew membership with key activities including member vetting, a referral waitlist, private Q&A sessions, giveaways, and one-hour live broadcasts with design thought leaders.
• Successfully pitched key sponsors and monetized the community by partnering with Adobe, InVision, Toptal, Validately (acq), Enjoy (acq), Balsamiq, and Abstract.
• Received multiple acquisition offers.

London, GB

• Led UX design for Web of Science, the leading scientific research, discovery, and collaboration tool for academic researchers that generates $300M+ annually.
• Steered the team through a transition from legacy technology to Angular to enable faster customer experiences like searching, saving, and filtering and rapid feature releases.
• Aligned with other business lines including Publons, InCites, ESI, and EndNote to design cross-product experiences and create cohesive user journeys amongst different personas.
• Extensively tested interactive UI prototypes via remote testing, in-person testing, concept testing, and card-sorting to de-risk feature releases and ensure AAA accessibility.
• Designed and shipped the SSO experience for hundreds of thousands of users to reduce spam and theft by foreign actors, and increase cross-product and platform adoption.

Fort Worth, Texas, US

• Oversaw and led product design at the Token Foundry cryptocurrency business which did tens of millions in revenue in year one and grew to 50,000 registered users.
• Pitched, secured funding, and started the user research practice on a team of 52 to ensure product ideas are evaluated, refined, and de-risked prior to burning development hours.
• Established OKRs & KPIs for the product design team and held weekly design reviews and feedback sessions to ensure the team was on track to meet business outcomes.
• Key achievements include: KYC/AML workflow design for ethereum utility and security tokens, cryptocurrency hardware wallet integration, and token performance dashboards.

New York, NY, US

• Led collaborative design workshops, ideation sessions, strategy and design projects for billion dollar corporations including HNI Furniture ($HNI), The Brooklyn Nets, and Koch Industries Georgia-Pacific leading to new.
• Launched analytics dashboards to monitor Brooklyn Nets’ players performance and health data to help them win more games, prevent injury, and alert staff of potential health issues.
• Evaluated gaps and engaged effectively with business stakeholders to bring clarity to requirements, manage scope, and meet the needs of simultaneous client projects.

Roseland, New Jersey, US

• Led UX on a multi-disciplinary scrum team working on HR applications and helped drive adoption of key features including succession planning and cost center management.
• Nurtured diverse perspectives and helped grow the team from 5-10 dedicated designers.
• Experimented with conversational user interfaces (CUI) and virtual reality (VR).
• Conducted and integrated usability testing into a fast-paced, agile workflow.

San Francisco, CA, US

- Conducted 10 interaction design projects for Chipotle’s mobile and desktop ordering platforms.- Created and analyzed two user studies to investigate and improve the design of mobile ordering for Chipotle.- Designed over 50 wireframes (desktop, tablet, mobile) for the New York Philharmonic’s new website, nyphil.org.- Presented findings and communicated.

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology

Computer Science