Gina Ionin

Work Experience

Senior Product Designer, Sliderule, Berkeley, CA
Apr 2022 - present

Founding designer for a no-code rules engine to detect risk and fraud for FinTech companies.

  • Lead design and UX research for the entire app.

  • Determine product requirements, scope, and metrics for projects.

  • Establish design documentation and processes.

  • Collaborate closely with engineers and co-founders.

Product Designer, Checkr, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Mar 2021 - Mar 2022

Create delightful user experiences while building a fairer future.

  • Lead design for two domains: monetization (invoicing and billing) and self-service onboarding and account management.

  • Lead, scope, and execute user research, synthesizing into a final report with analysis and recommendations to consider for roadmaps.

  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, customer support, and marketing.

Senior Product Designer, Uplift, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Dec 2018 - Mar 2021

Improved features for existing products - application flow, user portal, and agent portal. Created experiences for new products.

  • Wrote and defined product requirements and design specs; created user flows and interaction flows. Turned these into designs for engineering hand-off.

    • Design specs included annotations for designs, use cases, potential edge cases, and other behaviors.

    • Product requirement documents included technical requirements, design requirements, and data requirements. In addition, I was the Product Manager (as well as the Product Designer) for Uplift’s user portal.

  • Designed A/B tests (overall increased conversion with new designs) and conducted user testing (guerrilla testing, usertesting.com). Worked with customer support for customer feedback and customer surveys. Compiled and analyzed findings into reports to suggest next steps and strategies.

  • Deliver visual designs for the commercial team - sales mockups, marketing assets, and integration mockups.

UI/UX Designer, SeeleTech Corp, Emeryville, CA
Dec 2017 - Apr 2018 (volunteer), Apr 2018 - Dec 2018 (FT)

Design and redesign products, acting as a Product Manager, for SeeleTech, a blockchain research company. Other responsibilities include administrative, recruiting, and HR duties.

  • Designed an enticing website and internal dashboard through research and design, including user research (user interviews, surveying), UX analysis (competitive analysis, content auditing), creating personas and sitemaps, usability testing, wireframing, and prototyping.

  • Graphic design for social media content and company material

  • Supervised and managed marketing analysts and interns. Spearheaded the hiring process and coordinated with other companies for services, such as Indeed.

  • Executive assistant responsibilities: planning events/meetups, organizing office move/lease and coordinating with property management, and some budgeting.

  • Traveled internationally to meet with investors/clients and attend conferences.

QA Analyst, IXL Learning, San Mateo, CA
May 2017 - Apr 2018

Tested frontend and backend work, verified UI and styling, and worked with product managers to improve new features.

  • Coordinate with product managers and engineers to verify and release new features, bug fixes, and improvements to the IXL website and internal tools (waterfall methodology).

  • Collaborate with QA team to improve internal protocols.

  • Monitor the fix and release of high priority production bugs.

  • In charge of the release process - setting up the environment to be rolled out into production.

  • Use HLDS to create test plans for testing processes.

  • Adept at using JIRA for issue tracking/communication.

QA Engineer, Sungevity, Oakland, CA
Senior Solar Designer
Junior Solar Designer
March 2015 - March 2017

Joined as a Junior Solar Designer and promoted quickly to Senior based on strong grasp of solar and solar design knowledge. Worked closely with the Sales Department and the Design/Engineering Department before transitioning to a QA position in the Software Department.

  • Worked with product owner, product manager, and engineers to test new design software in an AGILE environment.

  • Top designer as a Junior Solar Designer and Senior Solar Designer (most number of systems sold per month and most kW sold per month).

  • Trained new hires and responsible for the quality assurance of other solar designers.

  • Analyzed and scrubbed Suneyes reports.

  • Used Salesforce for workflow/communication.


Skills

User Experience
User research (user interviews, surveying)
Usability testing
Interaction design
Wireframing
Prototyping
Drawing
Card-sorting

Software
Sketch
Balsamiq
InVision + InVision Studio
Overflow.io
Figma
Jenkins
JIRA
HTML + CSS
Microsoft Suite

Education

B.S. Environmental Science, minor in Environmental Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles (2011-2014)

  • Air and water quality, environmental health, environmental microbiology, environmental research, life-cycle analysis, chemical fate and transportation, engineering probability and statistics.

Ithakai UX Design Intensive Program (Dec 2017 - March 2018)
Certificate of completion

  • Hands-on learning of UX skills and processes through various projects, such as designing a website, redesigning an existing product, and designing an app.

    • Learned user research (user interviews, surveying), UX analysis (competitive analysis, content auditing), creating personas and sitemaps, usability testing, wireframing, and prototyping.

  • Learned other useful skills, including UI design and interaction design.