# Brian Rucker > Senior Product Designer at Jasper.ai Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/brianrucker Sr. Product Designer with a background in Product Management and Design Management. Formerly at Apple, currently designing at Jasper.ai. ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer @ Jasper Jan 2022 – Present First design hire Design Lead (Jasper Brand Voice) - Owning the user experience to allow users to create a Knowledge Base with Jasper - a database of facts about a company's target audience, industry, products/services, etc - so that Jasper can produce on-brand content, unique to our user's brand voice. - Owning the user experience to allow users to create their Brand Voice through AI detection or manual Brand Voice entry - Owning designs to allow users to create a Style Guide as part of their Brand Voice Formerly Design Lead (Integrations/Chrome Extension Team) - Designed Chrome Extension from concept to launch - 10,000+ downloads 1 week post launch, 4.5 star review in Chrome store (while still in beta) Check out a few youtube reviews of the Beta Chrome Extension: ### Product Designer @ Reprise Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Reprise is a Series B demo platform backed by ICONIQ Growth, Bain Capital Ventures, Glasswing Ventures, Phil Fernandez (former CEO of Marketo), Howie Liu (CEO of Airtable), and Ryan Peterson (CEO of Flexport) amongst others. First design hire. Design lead on Reprise Editor team - Own end-to-end designs for Reprise's core editor Design lead on Activation team Own end-to-end designs for: - “Starter" product (free Reprise product) - "Capture" product (a Reprise Chrome Extension) - User onboarding experience Co-Designer on App Capture team - Work closely with the VP of Design on end-to-end designs for Reprise's enterprise product, "App Capture". ### Design Producer @ Apple Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Cupertino, California, United States - In-house Producer consultant (via SmallTalk Agency) of design projects. - Managed a team of product designers across a series of projects for Apple's Mobile/Web e-commerce site and Apple's iOS e-commerce App. - Led the redesign of the iPhone 12 pre-order shopping experience for the EMEA market ### Product Manager @ Mayvenn Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Oakland, California Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Mayvenn is a hairstylist booking platform. As 1st PM hire, I work directly with the Director of Product and Senior Product Designer to help Mayvenn pivot from an ecommerce platform that sells hair extensions to a hairstylist booking platform. Work included: - Managing product growth initiatives through research, strategic planning, and implementation. - Leading biweekly conversion rate optimization meetings between the Product and Data/Growth teams - Improving Mayvenn's product roadmap and develop methods for assessing product and project success - Scoping product features and writing product requirements/user stories in tracker - Reporting progress, milestones, deliverables and lessons learned to all applicable stakeholders - Conducting user and competitive research to uncover user segments, their needs/pain points and product value propositions that would resonate with those segments and address their needs - Analyzing and distilling user/company data in Woopra and Looker ### Founder & Lead Product Designer @ Pique Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Pique: The Common Application for Scholarships is a scholarship marketplace web app that standardized the scholarship application process for students and scholarship organizations. Pique allows students to apply to unlimited scholarships with a standardized profile and provides scholarship organizations with an application management tool to review submitted applications. - Owned all of Pique’s designs from concept to beta and redesign (view design case study here: https://launchpad.animaapp.com/preview/s5gJour/brianportfolio - Managed the customer discovery process and launched Pique’s pilot program with 5 scholarship organizations, 15 and 10 high schools to test key assumptions surrounding user pain points, Pique’s product offering and more - Managed two engineers and launched a several products including: an application management tool for scholarship organizations, an ‘invite feature’ that allowed educators invite and onboard groups 50+ students with a click of a button, and a standardized profile for students ### Product Designer @ Connectr Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area - Served as one of two UX/UI designers at Connectr a professional networking iOS app. - Co-designed Connectr from research to implementation. Oversaw every stage of user research including preparation, execution, analysis, synthesis, and presentation of insights. - Whiteboarded and brainstormed potential solutions centered on helping professionals network in a more efficient and effective manner. Sketched potential solutions with user personas in mind. - Helped in determining MVP features, user flows and the visual elements for Connectr’s UI. Ran usability tests and designed iteratively across several user flows until we reached a pixel perfect design with a user friendly navigation. ### Ruby Developer @ General Assembly Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Greater New York City Area Built web applications using a full stack: (Vanilla Javascript, JQuery, Ruby, and Ruby on Rails) *Attendance Tracker: Developed an application to track students’ attendance. Used Bycrypt gem to hash and protect users’ passwords. Developed the application’s front-­‐end using JavaScript/jQuery, Chart.js and Skeleton for CSS. Used the General Assembly ­‐ generated API and Twilio API to save and persist current students, instructors, and organizers into PostgreSQL database. Built the backend using rails and deployed the application onto Heroku. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Philosophy Haverford College Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 ### The Wharton School Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 ### Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 ### Benjamin Banneker Academic High School Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brianrucker - Portfolio: https://launchpad.animaapp.com/preview/s5gJour/brianportfolio --- Source: https://flows.cv/brianrucker JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/brianrucker/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25