Jared Bajkowski Email & Phone Number

I use product design to solve problems for my partners, including UX/UI, visual and brand design, rapid prototyping, workshop facilitation, research, and content strategy.

Glen Allen, Va, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Lead designer for the Recommendations team under Compass's CRM platform -- currently preparing to lead a major workshop and design overhaul effort around a major agent-facing tool.

San Francisco, California, Us

Worked in the Ads Guidance team to design Pinterest’s advertiser strategy via the business platform. More specifically, I’m leading design efforts on how we provide recommendations and best practices both proactively and reactively in the ads process with the goal of making business users’ ads more successful and impactful for their spend. My efforts include:• Worked as the key Recommendations design partner within the Ads Guidance team to provide explorations and design specs that translate to “experiments,” rapid testing efforts to see what designs will be implemented by engineering• Coordinated with researchers and the insights team to craft feedback and measurement and testing plans• Collaborated with crossfunctional stakeholders to roadmap and prioritize work based on annual and half-year OKRs

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Led the redesign of H&R Block’s Return Wrap Up application which helps Block’s tax professionals finish up the tax prep interview with confidence and set up their clients for next year with ease. It’s set to launch very soon! My efforts include:• Acted as the key design partner through the entire process from early workshopping to prototyping to feedback and measurement;• Partnered with just about every product stakeholder in the organization to integrate everything from pricing to financial services into one seamless experience;• Implemented in-person and remote testing and measurement plans to gauge success in key metrics, throughout both the rapid prototyping and development processes; and• Collaborated with technical stakeholders to deliver designs, prototypes and functioning code every sprint across a year-long roadmap.

Windsor, Ct, Us

I took on a short-term contract with SS&C to help them build an accessibility-focused whitelabel financial product that was customizable by their clients. By the end of the term, I also led the effort to create a design system that would create alignment and efficiencies between the design team and in-house and off-shore developers. Major deliverables included:• An end-to-end, customer-facing investor dashboard capable of being customized and styled to the client’s brand standards;• A client-specific retirement dashboard simplifiying the visualization of accounts, change over time, and share distribution; and• A living design system with a centralized governance model that standardized design and development practices across multiple teams.