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Summary

Product Designer with six years in product and nine before that as an Art Director. I specialise in developer experience, design systems, and making complex technical workflows feel approachable without stripping out what makes them powerful. I've worked on enterprise database tooling, regulated fintech platforms, and recruiting infrastructure. Usually brought in when the problem space is genuinely unclear and working that out is part of the job. Recently built an AI reference layer into a design system that lets AI tools generate on-spec UI without manual correction. Open to senior IC and design leadership roles, remote or in person within Germany.

Experience

Principal Product Designer

Oct 2025 – Present

Aerospike — Remote

  • Lead design for Voyager, Aerospike's first visual developer tool: guided onboarding, data browsing, a visual filter builder, and an embedded MCP server. Shipped publicly April 2026.
  • In the first week of public preview, median time from connecting to a cluster to browsing the first record was 11 seconds.
  • Built a structured AI reference layer into the design system so AI tools can generate on-spec UI without manual correction.

Senior Product Designer

Feb 2025 – Oct 2025

Aerospike — Remote

  • Designed the Aerospike Cloud provisioning experience, getting clusters live in under 90 seconds across AWS and GCP.
  • Flow completion exceeded expectations for a multi-step technical configuration. Abandonment was low, and validation errors declined steadily as the contextual guidance matured.
  • Translated complex distributed-system logic into intuitive UI patterns, working closely with backend and platform engineering teams.

Senior Product Designer

Apr 2023 – Jan 2025

Workwise — Karlsruhe, Germany

titled Expert Product Designer internally

  • Led design for candidate-facing and internal platforms. Introduced a new UX strategy and built a unified design system from scratch.
  • Overhauled the Figma component library and integrated Storybook. Design-to-dev handoff got meaningfully better and faster.
  • Ran usability testing cycles that directly shaped product prioritisation.

Senior Product Designer (Team Lead)

Apr 2022 – Mar 2023

Sygnum Bank — Zurich, Switzerland

  • First product designer at the world's first regulated crypto bank. Built team processes, design tooling, and critique culture from scratch.
  • Delivered a cross-platform design system and UI/UX for institutional and retail crypto products.
  • Simplified complex blockchain workflows for mainstream adoption without losing the depth that expert users needed.

Senior Conceptual Designer

Aug 2020 – Mar 2022

Publicis — Zurich, Switzerland

  • Art direction, UI/UX, and visual strategy for UBS across multiple product lines.
  • Led concepting, prototyping, and campaign execution across multi-disciplinary teams.

Creative Lead

Aug 2019 – Mar 2020

Matter Design — Sydney, Australia

  • Led design direction across UX, UI, and eCommerce builds. Clients included Goodlife Health Clubs, Gillette, DNA Connect.
  • Owned projects end-to-end — from pitch through delivery.

Senior Art Director

Jan 2019 – Aug 2019

CHE Proximity — Sydney, Australia

  • Led creative across digital pitches and branding projects. Clients included American Express, Samsung, ING.

Senior Art Director

Jun 2016 – Apr 2018

Equipe — Zurich, Switzerland

  • Multi-language, multinational campaigns for Heineken, UBS, Swiss Post, Zurich Insurance.
  • Managed large cross-functional design projects and pitch work.

Art Director — Early Career

2011 – 2016

Droga5 · Clemenger BBDO · Leo Burnett · Grey — Australasia & Germany

  • Art Director at some of the most awarded agencies in the world, working across Australasia and Germany on brand, digital, and product campaigns.

Awards & Recognition

Awarded at Cannes Lions, D&AD, The One Show, The Webby Awards, New York Festivals, Deutscher Design Club, AXIS Awards, and AWARD Awards — spanning product design, digital, and advertising.

Resume — Jono Fox, Principal Product Designer | Jono Fox