Rachel Aron
Senior Product Designer
Summary
A generalist product designer with 8+ years in B2B SaaS: research, design, front-end code, and business strategy, all in one person. I've been the entire UX team on my own, and I've been part of teams of three and twelve, either way my job is the same, get everyone speaking the same language and ship something real. MBA and M.S. in Management Information Systems included, mostly so I can hold my own in a roadmap meeting.
Experience
Senior Product Designer, Studio Designer
- Owned end-to-end design of payroll management and financial workflows, streamlining billing, contractor payouts, and reporting to cut task completion time by 30%
- Brought AI tools (Claude, Codex, Figma AI, Relume, ChatGPT) into the workflow for design system documentation, accessibility guidelines, and rapid prototyping
- Aligned design direction across 15+ cross-functional stakeholders, cutting design revision cycles by 40%
- Built and maintained a 200+ component Figma library (auto-layout, variables), documented in Zeroheight and Storybook
- Ran 20+ annual usability sessions with payroll operators and finance teams, driving a 45% increase in user satisfaction
Product Designer, Vertex Inc.
- Led design and architecture of a scalable, WCAG-compliant enterprise design system across multiple product teams, cutting design inconsistencies and dev rework by 60%
- Owned end-to-end UX for enterprise fintech, tax compliance, and payroll calculation tools, turning dense financial logic into predictable workflows
- Aligned Figma component architecture with frontend frameworks and Storybook, working directly with engineering
- Authored design system documentation (tokens, interaction patterns, accessibility) and drove adoption without direct authority
- Ran research, design sprints, and usability testing with internal consultants; mentored peers and managed UX roadmaps in Asana
- Introduced an async video feedback model that reduced meeting overhead
User Experience Architect, Temeda
- Founding designer for a B2B SaaS manufacturing product: set the UX vision and led it from concept to launch
- Architected a global design system supporting 4+ product lines, reducing front-end rework by 20%
- Overhauled the company website and help center, cutting support tickets by 55%
- Designed complex financial workflows to full WCAG compliance
- Ran research (interviews, A/B testing, analytics), built personas and journey maps
- Also handled the brand style guide, logo, and email marketing as the de facto multi-hat designer, IA, and marketer
Designer & Fullstack Developer, Dovecote, LLC (Independent)
- Consult on end-to-end design and front-end development (HTML/CSS/JS) for a range of clients
- 100% project completion rate with long-term, repeat clients
- Run technical audits to resolve legacy code conflicts, optimize database queries, and improve PageSpeed
- Build custom filterable directories and search interfaces from raw CSV datasets
Education
MBA, Business Administration
Dominican University, 2022–2025
M.S., Management Information Systems
Dominican University, 2022–2025
B.S., Engineering
Miami University, 2010–2014
B.A., Psychology
Miami University, 2010–2014
Skills
Research & Strategy
User Interviews, Competitive Research, Problem Reframing, Stakeholder Alignment, A/B Testing
Design & Systems
Figma, Design Systems, Component Libraries, Accessibility (WCAG), Pattern Documentation
Development
HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (React, Angular), REST APIs, SQL, Git, CMS
Data & Analytics
SQL, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Google Analytics
Process
Agile/Scrum, Asana, Jira, Confluence, Cross-Functional Collaboration, AI-Assisted Prototyping
Full detail on select projects is available in the case studies on rachel-aron.com.