Rusty Jones

About

Strategic Senior Product Designer specializing in transforming high-level concepts into functional product experiences. Expert in helping cross-functional teams deliver humane product strategies, drive stakeholder consensus, and navigate the integration of emerging technologies. Proven track record in HealthTech, Enterprise SaaS, and FinTech with a technical focus on advanced AI integration and emerging UX workflows.

Experience

• Senior UX Designer / Lead UX Designer (Fusion Platform & Agentic AI) · Proximity Lab2018

  Lead UX Designer – N-able (Fusion Platform & Agentic AI) ● North Star Vision: Provided comprehensive research, strategy, and design to support product teams in developing a long-term "North Star" product vision for the Fusion platform. ● Strategic Recommendations: Defined critical mid-term recommendations to elevate user experience, focusing on modernizing and unifying the N-able ecoverse. ● AI Innovation: Researched and prototyped exploratory AI-integrated workflows, including predictive remediation, intelligent summarization, and LLM-driven chat/search for high-impact task execution. ● Stakeholder Alignment: Managed executive-level expectations and design transitions, presenting authoritative, research-backed design concepts to senior leadership, including the Group VP and CEO.

• Lead UX Designer (Auto Lending Experience Pilot) · Proximity Lab2018

  Lead UX Designer – First Tech (Auto Lending Experience Pilot) ● AI-Integrated Workflows: Explored alternative workflow augmentations, including AI Assistant entry points for initiating loan requests through conversational prompts. ● UX Strategy: Mapped core scenarios, such as VIN-first, Refinance, and Pre-qualification, to demonstrate how deep-linking and e-signatures eliminate operational gaps. ● Stakeholder Alignment: Synthesized findings from executive and engineering stakeholders to align on a vision for faster, automated, member-centric lending.

• UX Designer (Life Sciences / AI Data Exploration) · Proximity Lab2018

  UX Designer – Eagle Genomics (Life Sciences / AI Data Exploration) ● AI-Integrated Workflows: Evolved mHypergraph prototypes into standalone experiences featuring natural language prompts and simplified network visualizations for non-technical users. ● Product Innovation: Created exploratory conceptual designs for "Conversation Canvases," allowing scientists to traverse complex graph layers and decode patterns in multi-omics landscapes. ● Stakeholder Alignment: Facilitated working sessions to define MVP features, such as public vs. private scoring settings and collaborative valuation models.

• UX Design Lead (HealthTech / Regulatory Platform) · Proximity Lab2018

  UX Design Lead – Accumulus Synergy (HealthTech / Regulatory Platform) ● Product Design: Designed sophisticated interfaces for managing enormous data dossiers and drug review submissions for global health authorities. ● AI-Integrated Workflows: Streamlined "Reliance" flows by integrating automated tasks, notifications, and Health Authority Question (HAQ) import processes. ● UX Strategy: Led design refinement sessions and gap analyses for critical milestones including calendaring and task management.

• UX Design Lead (Genomic Curation Web App) · Proximity Lab2018

  UX Design Lead – Genomenon (Genomic Curation Web App) ● Product Innovation: Updated an internal data curation platform to fundamentally support the clinical exome/human genome curation process. ● UX Strategy: Conducted stakeholder interviews and demos with curation scientists and project managers to identify pain points in article- and variant-centric curation flows. ● Product Design: Developed multiple layout directions, including flexible canvases and two-column workspaces, to improve curation efficiency and reduce complexity.

• Lead UX Designer (EMS UX Strategy & Component Unification) · Proximity Lab2018

  Lead UX Designer – Autodesk (EMS UX Strategy & Component Unification) ● Product Innovation: Created a strong POV for how a unified design language can create harmony across EMS products to build smarter and faster. ● Stakeholder Alignment: Led 90-minute sessions with product SMEs and managers to validate nomenclature and prioritize core elements for unification. ● Product Design: Conducted detailed production design for unified components including Tiles, Comments, and Notifications to establish continuity for high-value users.

• UX Designer · Proximity Lab2018

  UX Designer – Office Ally ● Product Design: Delivered high-fidelity visual designs and user interface improvements for enterprise SaaS platforms. ● UX Strategy: Participated in requirement gathering and service blueprinting workshops to support product discovery and development priorities.

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