Jade Elizabeth Gray Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Instructing Senior Project 1: Capstone.

Otherforms is a design studio for early ventures. We partner with entrepreneurs and investors, making something new.

London, Gb

Neol is a Community-powered platform for audacious creative leaders worldwide to do the best work of their lives. Neol’s platform empowers creative leaders with the technology, people, and processes they need to deliver impactful projects from anywhere at scale. At Neol, I participate in the Climate Change and Ventures work.

My passion lies in painting the big picture through blending design, user research, and business strategy – in service of human connection. I’ve worked with companies, nonprofits, and governments to craft meaningful products and services around the world. Open to collaborations.Specialities include–design and product strategy, design direction & leadership, product management, cross-cultural research, insight gathering & synthesis, concepting, and interaction design.

San Francisco, California, Us

Design and innovation initiatives for WestCap's portfolio partners, including:CōLab x Cybersecurity: Product audit, Research, Usability Testing, ConceptingCōLab x Wellness: Research Lead, Synthesis, ConceptingCōLab x DDB x California Dept of Health: Research Lead, Sythesis, Storytelling

Nedlands, Wa, Au

DrawHistory is a small and mighty design & strategy team partnering with powerful organizations such as the UN, Google, the Australian Government, and Indigo. Since 2015, they've crafted design, brand, and product solutions for more than 150 organizations.

Partnered with this *stellar* team to reimagine their business model, developed concepts for new offerings, designed prototypes, and coached Banff in how to manage and support product teams.

San Francisco, California, Us

Supported the homeowner product life cycle through surfacing research insights, developing prototypes, and crafting product flows.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Led the development of Halo's product roadmap, in addition to coaching the team in product strategy and best practices.

Denver, Co, Us

Leading the design and development of Guild's product initiative focused on supporting marginalized & frontline workers in career transitions. Our goal is to support workers in navigating the job search through empowering communities with tools, methods, networks and best practices for a better job search – and quality of life.Guild's mission: Unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education and upskilling with a double bottom line business model that does well by doing good.

Remote, Us

Leading design within SkillUp, focused on a re-design of SkillUp's product and value propositions aiming to empower low-wage and frontline workers through providing access to better jobs, trainings, and professional opportunities. About SkillUp: SkillUp is dedicated to helping more than 40 million workers get rehired for in-demand jobs in high-growth industries. Our coalition is made up of over 60 world-class training and education providers, tech firms, employers, and philanthropies.

Led design audit and redesign of Storyboard's V2, inclusive of a refined product strategy, visual direction, brand, and supportive content.Storyboard provides private podcasting, on-demand audio messages and more to your own organization. Enterprise security meets a best-in-class listener experience.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Led the MVP design of Cloud Sangha, through determining which search patterns could best support meditators in accessing Cloud Sangha's group offerings. About Cloud Sangha: We are a diverse group of meditators dedicated to enriching our practice through expert mentoring and deepening community.Cloud Sangha started as a partnership between two renowned mindfulness meditation teachers — Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach — and two seasoned entrepreneurs and meditators — Ranah Edelin and Willem Bult. They came together to help transform lives and reduce suffering by making the deep integration of mindfulness teachings accessible to more people. A core belief we have is that this integration requires skillful guidance from experienced teachers and community (“Sangha" means “community” in Sanskrit).

Sacramento, California, Us

Worked alongside a stellar team to help Calbright College re-design how they support adult learners in a rapidly changing workforce. Specifically, focused on design concepts, high-level product flows, IA, and messaging.

Advised a new healthcare start-up in design and product strategy, specifically in codifying value for those August aim's to serve–in addition to crafting MVP flows and prototypes for user testing and iteration.

San Francisco, California, Us

Conducted research in support of a human-centered look at how workers, hiring managers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers can rebuild a more equitable labor market together.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Responsible for leading and designing end-to-end digital experiences for the Airbnb community–hosts and guests– through owning opportunity definition, design research, UX/UI, prototyping, usability testing, product launch, and iteration on my projects. Collaborated with many to build and develop Airbnb for Work, which at that time what responsible for 10-15% of Airbnb's overall revenue. Highlights from my time at Airbnb include: research and prototyping new services in SE Asia to answer 'how might we better support emerging market hosts?' ; leading the 'Business Travel on Airbnb' design vision ; participating in women's and equity initiatives within the company; and contributing to early explorations of Airbnb.org.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

At one point I was managing 7(!) teams to support quality design – through crafting scopes of work, developing product timelines, sequencing deliverables, and managing team health.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

With an amazing team, built our reproductive health design portfolio focused on supporting adolescent girls and secured IDEO.org’s largest project at that time. Our portfolio consisted of partnerships with the Hewlett Foundation, Marie Stopes International, International Planned Parenthood Federation, and the Packard Foundation.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Led partnerships in reproductive health, agriculture, and water + sanitation to design products & services to support at risk and vulnerable communities. Partners included the Gates Foundation, the Ethiopian Government, d.light, Unilever, and more.

Arden Hills, Minnesota, Us

Managed multimillion-dollar USAID and USDA-funded agriculture and economic development programs in Sri Lanka, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Mozambique.

Arden Hills, Minnesota, Us

Conducted research for international development & aid programs within agricultural innovation, community development, and sustainability.

Salt Lake City, Us

Led sustainability projects at the University of Utah, primarily in consumer recycling, environmental communications & messaging, and research.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Led a landscape analysis of funding opportunities for Salt Lake County environmental sustainability efforts – inclusive of solar and recycling projects.

Washington, Dc, Us

I spent a summer guiding patrons in White River National Forest.

Conducted a community census in the village of Tsilanga, Madagascar.

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science And Government

Bachelor'S Degree, International Relations And Affairs

Bachelor'S Degree, Environmental Studies