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Jared Mills

Product Designer
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Experience

Sr./Lead Product Designer

United Airlines
Aug 2024 - Present
Chicago, IL

Led end-to-end 0→1 product design for multiple high-impact internal platforms including Trip Trade (pilot scheduling marketplace) and Pharos (network planning optimization). Translated complex operational workflows and data-heavy systems into intuitive, scalable experiences that balanced immediate usability wins with long-term platform strategy. Delivered measurable outcomes across products, including 30–45% reductions in task completion time, SUS scores of 89, and strong adoption across pilot and operations groups.

Sr. UX Designer

City National Bank
Oct 2023 - Aug 2024
Remote

Senior designer on the account summary personalization experience for high-net-worth banking clients managing 15‐20+ accounts. Drove discovery to uncover the true causes of cognitive overload and poor account visibility, reframing vague customer feedback into a clear problem statement centered on control, prioritization, and mental models. Partnered with researchers to test solutions through multiple rounds of usability testing, improving task completion to 100% and reducing navigation friction by 43%.

Lead Product Designer

Ernst & Young (EY)
Jan 2019 - Sep 2023
Chicago, IL

Led 0→1 design of complex enterprise products within EY's Global Tax Platform, serving 100K+ users worldwide. Regularly partnered with product and engineering to identify systemic UX issues and translate them into scalable, reusable solutions. Integrated AI-assisted tools and analytics into internal platforms to improve insight discovery, onboarding, and task efficiency, resulting in 25% workflow efficiency gains and 35% faster onboarding.

Sr. UX Designer

Epsilon
Oct 2016 - Dec 2018
Chicago, IL

Designed and implemented a modernized Access advertising platform by standardizing interaction patterns and simplifying client workflows for self-service campaign management. Evolved enterprise design system and validated patterns through testing, driving a 50% decrease in development costs. Ensured a consistent experience by translating user research insights into actionable design solutions that improved customer engagement.

Skills

Design

UX Design Research Design Systems Wireframes Prototypes IA Journey Maps

Process

Testing Workshop Facilitation Lean Product Dev

Technical

Figma Adobe CC Framer HTML CSS JS Git AI Tools

Education

M.S. Design & Management

The New School
2019-2020 (Incomplete)
New York, NY
3.97 GPA

Design & Development

Boston University
2011-2012
Washington, DC
4.0 GPA

B.A. in Economics

Michigan State University
Psychology minor
East Lansing, MI

Certifications & Training

IxDF

AI for Design, Affordances, Usability Testing
2019-2025

Skillsoft

Leveraging AI, Accessibility, Design Thinking
Oct 2023

Deque

Web Accessibility Curriculum & IAAP Prep
April 2020

Adobe

Analytics: Reports and Visualizations I & II
May 2023