Jacob Rush
Design, Product
San Francisco, California

Shaping product & crafting interfaces

Direction

I’m a product-centric designer with experience across early stage and big tech. I’ve steered product strategy, crafted interfaces, and formed brand identities.

I came to the world of design with a passion for product and entrepreneurship. I loved imagining, and viewed design as a tool to demonstrate my imagination.

I no longer view design as purely demonstration – but rather a process of continuous discovery and iteration. An elevation of existing situations into preferred ones. In this way, I believe anyone can practice design: a hedge fund rebalancing a portfolio, or a professional golfer tweaking their backswing.

For myself, my passion still lives within entrepreneurship and product. But now, I come at it with a different approach – one that views design as an inseparable partner from product. My work floats across both functions with one guiding principle: design without product is decorative; product without design is uninspiring.

Projects
Poggio Labs
Reporting
Coming Soon
SAP
Multi Cloud Data as a Service
Coming Soon
Matere
Brand Identity
Coming Soon
Notre Dame
Bel Air
Coming Soon
Experience
2023-Now
Self Employed Designer

Freelancing. Consulting with early stage and entrepreneurs on product, design, and branding

2022-2023
Product Designer

Design lead for an EPD triad with 5 engineers. Generated design artifacts from wireframes to prototypes. Drove product strategy as an interim product lead, owning PRDs and roadmap for product vertical.

2020-2022
Product Designer, Product Manager

Product design and research lead for SAP Multi Cloud. Designed solutions integrating workflows from AWS, GCP, and Azure. Managed product roadmaps, backlog, and other agile documentation.

2019-2020
Lead Product Designer

Lead designer for a social services marketplace on iOS. Received funding from the City of South Bend after standing up a proof of concept.

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