Jared Crane Email & Phone Number

Westlake, Texas, US

Washington, DC, US

• Designed from inception to launch a new end-to-end encrypted large file-sharing web app, driving usage to 60K users in <18 months.
• Co-led and created the UX intern program. This included working directly with the UX intern on mentoring him through projects, giving critiques, and helping him shepherd his project through the design process.
• Completely redesigned one of the core products. The scope of this work was a complete visual redesign, animation work, new information architecture, and the application and growth of a new design system.

Washington, DC, US

I am currently leading design on 3 different products. I recently helped bring one of those products from closed beta to market. Currently focusing on product-led growth and introducing a self-serve onboarding funnel. This product has consistently beaten both growth and retention goals each quarter.

Westlake, Texas, US

Worked on the options trading experience across the web, iOS, and Android products. Led design efforts to completely redesign the options trading experience, add functionality, improve usability, and accessibility to facilitate the integration of TD Ameritrade clients onto the Schwab platform.

San Antonio, Texas, US

Projects included implementing an AI chatbot for IT support, leading design for office technology to help support Covid safety protocols, and replacing the project budgeting tool for the entire organization. I regularly created and led remote workshops with business units across USAA.

Austin, Texas, US

As the lead designer I led discovery research to help uncover new opportunities to better support small and medium business owners on the Volusion ecommerce platform. I worked across the organization internally to align business goals with the customer journey. I regularly helped revise our strategy, identify our core users, develop behavior archetypes for.

New York City, NY, US

Additionally working as Lead of our instructor team that coordinates our design efforts for instructors across all Macmillan products.

New York City, NY, US

Worked as the lead designer on the Writing Tools team. Responsibilities included conducting research with students and instructors in higher education, synthesizing findings into design deliverables, working directly with stakeholders to align projects to user problems, allocating design resources, and keeping an accurate UX roadmap.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

As part of the Spectrum Protect team I worked on an enterprise data storage product. Spectrum Protect helped customers to manage their data centers, backup data, and retrieve data as necessary. We worked across storage types including tape, solid state, and cloud storage. I collaborated directly with engineering, the business line, and other stakeholders.

San Francisco, California, US

I worked closely with product management, the CEO, and the design team to refine Zoosk into an enjoyable and successful product. I aided the design process by producing wireframes to showcase interaction and flow. Additionally I regularly produced prototypes and animations that show how a design moves, animates, and feels while being interacted with.

Bloomington, Indiana, US

Regularly consult and mentor students on design projects.Critique and give feedback on deliverables.

US

My duties range from dealing face to face with clients to solve simple problems, answer questions, etc, to hardware repair and virus removal.I also facilitate training of new employees for all departments of Best Buy.

Richfield, Minnesota, US

Advising and helping clients find the right appliances for their homes. This included selling, setting up orders, delivery, and installation of appliances.

Ba, General Studies, Philosophy

Masters, Informatics/Hcid