Jason Parry

Product Designer
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I am an experienced product design leader with over 15 years designing products. My unique blend of expertise spans UX, visual design, prototyping, motion design, and development across web, mobile, and new platforms. My favorite thing about design is evolving complex workflows into simple, engaging experiences that customers love.
Key Expertise Areas
  • Evolving complex fintech workflows into intuitive mobile experiences

  • Design system development and governance

  • Heavy collaboration with engineering through a deep understanding of development

  • Reducing support calls through improved self-serve workflows

  • Boosting product usability through simplified design solutions

  • Rapid prototyping to transform ideas into testable concepts

  • Fostering inclusive, feedback-rich cultures that bring out the best work from teams

Career Highlights
  • 1st Place Winner, Weave's 2023 AI Innovation Contest

  • 500% increase in usability through user flow redesign

  • Reduced unpaid invoices by designing custom "pay over time" feature

  • Transformed brand identity and boosted sales with new collateral

  • Art directed over 100 new headphone and speaker products per year

Work Experience

Product Design Lead

Weave
November 2021 - Present
  • Reduced support call volume and risk of penalties with Stripe by redesigning our 'Create Stripe Account' flow for new customers

  • Designed a fully custom "pay-over-time" feature to reduce unpaid invoices

  • Led a team of 10 designers and improved team culture by fostering a positive environment for designers to share their work and giving them opportunities to present their work, give feedback to others, and contribute to our team's operational strategy

  • Implemented sprint process to improve workload management and communication between design, product, and engineering

  • Provided design support to multiple product teams, including Payments, Internal tools, Insurance Verification, Shared User Experiences, and Design System

Senior Product Designer

Vivint
March 2021 - November 2021
  • Evolve design system for more efficient component usage and less ambiguity for designers

  • Coach product leaders on product process and alignment on key metrics

  • Design update flow for a consistent experience across all platforms and improved storytelling around software benefits

  • Partner with engineers to transform complex user flows into an easily digestible experience

Senior Product Designer

O.C. Tanner
April 2018 - March 2021
  • Produced a user journey map that enabled design, product, and engineers to have empathy for users

  • Redesigned primary user flow and increased usability scores by 500%

  • Decreased design/development rework by involving engineering early on

Design System Owner

  • Develop process for auditing and updating design components

  • Create and manage shared design library

  • Work closely with developers to build code library

Product Designer

Overstock
September 2015 - April 2018
  • Designed a vehicle shopping experience with third party integrations for vehicle data and purchasing flow

  • UI/UX of shopping guides to boost conversion rates and SEO value

  • Lead conceptual designs around 3D product model viewing

Creative Director

Banyan
Banyan
April 2015 - September 2015
  • Managed design/marketing departments

  • Scaled from $50k/MRR to over $100k/MRR with iterative marketing and sales materials

  • Directed external development team on UI/UX improvements to iOS app

  • Art direction of new brand identities for client brands

Lead Art Director

Skullcandy
Lead Art Director June 2011 - April 2015
  • Art direction of new products

  • Lead product design team in design language and tech pack creation

  • Mood board new seasonal collections each year

  • Develop color palettes based on mood boards

  • Create artwork relevant to color families, based on mood boards

Art Director June 2008 - June 2011
  • Create design mockups for headphones, speakers, apparel, and accessories

  • Create tech packs for 100+ products each year

  • Design special product collaborations with brands: Nike, Budweiser, NBA, MLB, Lions Gate, Under Armor, D&G, Casio, Paul Frank, etc.


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