I'm Jay

🔑 Pragmatic problem solver and explorer 🚀

Passionate product designer dedicated to building elegant user experiences and products that make complex problems seem easy.

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About Me

Designing 💡 products that create transparency

Name: Jay Desantis
Job: Venture Product & Design Partner
Age: 27 Years
Hometown: Boston MA

Passionate product designer dedicated to building elegant user experiences that make complex problems seem easy for real people. In my career, I have had the opportunity to collaborate and design innovative applications and user experiences for many Fortune 500, Vc firms as well as start-ups. I am an entrepreneur too, having founded BlueUnicorn, a company whose disruptive social recruitment platform that was later acquired by LinkedIn.

You can find 💸 backing brilliant minds with more than just capital while creating strategic partnerships and relationships that help early stage organizations in user centric design as well as agile product development that significantly improves the organization's velocity and growth in the market.

My Services

I solve your toughest challenges through design | agile development.

Product Dev

By matching organizational capabilities with genuine needs, I can help you make the right product decisions.

UI Design

Beyond platform or device, the user interface is what your audience interacts and ultimately fall in love with.

Ux Design

Through iterative prototyping and relentless user tests, I can identify all parts of the user experience that your company needs.

My Skills

I've got skills i'm proud of

Product development

User centric design

Marketing strategic growth

Future focused

Sprint workshops

Storyboard - Wireframing

My Achievements

some pretty cool 😎 things Iv'e done with the right focus

2017
Bridged
A f2f allocation to top tier VC firms
2014
Founded
The first Social Recruitment tool sold to Linkedin in 201.
2013
Joined
KAE Capital UI/UX consultant team

My Experience

Take a look at the places where I've worked

PRODUCT & DESIGN PARTNER
Andra Capital | Venture Capital & Private Equity company focused on late and early stage
Created the early stage advisory suite of services that provided resources to strategic partnerships and development workshops.
SVP PRODUCT & DESIGN
FUTR | | Higher Education Finance Management and Student Loan Servicing
Collaborated with the CEO /executive team and applied research-based principles to drive the design of products that fully support end-user needs while also achieving the business vision. Led user research and interface design processes creating personas, visualizations, story boards, task flows, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and prototypes. Continuously measured and optimized the user experience through a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods.
CEO FOUNDER
CEO FOUNDER | Disruptive creative social recruitment platform
Injected Lean UX paradigms into Agile development processes significantly improving the scrum team's velocity and overall collaboration while placing the user at the core of the lifecycle. Attained over 150K beta users in the first two months. Successfully exited the market in 2014 for $28million. Created and distributed the first algorithm and test that was 95% accurate on the candidate's skill set.

Testimonials

Take a look at what other people say about me

I have never met a more motivated, creative, process driven dedicated individual. I worked with him briefly but he made a very strong influence.

Sasha Mirchandani

Kae Capital

Jay's ability to juggle multiple projects was unlike any I’ve seen before and made a dramatic difference in the productivity and delivery for our company.”

Kevin

Google Ventures

Strong assest to any organization.

Kyle

Apple

Portfolio

Organizations i've had the pleasure to work with

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Andra Capital

Andra Capital needed a fresh new design for it's website to announce the opening of The new fund and a refreshed identity.
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FUTR

This project was a quick exploration of hire education finance for FUTR website. This view into their mobile app next level servicing experience. The taxonomy of higher education finance is very complex and to solve the complexity of data to visually represent, we've placed the navigation slide gesture for an easier user flow that Millennials are used to.
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Project Fi

Consultanting this project was fun re-design for 4g hotspots. This view into their mobile app - web application consumer site.
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SongBank

Very complex project having to creat and desogn multi directional gesture into a player, for a new music platforn that truely values music.
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Lyft

Helping Lyft to discover new verticals and create higher level efficency for the driver and comuter.
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Virgin America

Helping Virgina define their summer 2017 IOS mobile application with concierge, baording, help and the integration of Visa Pay, checking out is as simple as one click and a thumb scan.

My Blog

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