# Jacob Spradley

> AI/ML Product Design | Product Vision & Strategy | Insights & Innovation | Service & Experience Design

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jacobspradley

A multidisciplinary product designer. I solve complex business & user problems by combining design, product, & business thinking. Winner of the World Media Awards Grand Prix, 2024.

Currently leading data annotation workflows at Snorkel.ai

I have a strong record of delivering innovative products in machine learning, artificial intelligence, developer workflows, sustainability, consumer finance, & B2B marketing/data, as well as leading teams of designers, strategists and researchers on client projects and internal initiatives.

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Designer @ Snorkel AI
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Leading annotation workflows and expert contributor experiences for a saas platform, as well as a peer-to-peer marketplace.

### Team Lead Product Design & User Experience @ Economist Impact
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | London, England, United Kingdom
Led a team of digital strategists, interaction designers and researchers to design client projects, internal products and create a research practice.

Key achievements:
- Delivered the first user-facing AI experience at the company
- Won the World Media Awards Grand Prix prize 2024 for the Value Chain Navigator, which I led the conception, design and delivery of
- Won an internal AI competition
- Established a research and continual improvement workflow for internal products and client projects

### Senior Product Designer (UX strategy) @ Economist Impact
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | London, England, United Kingdom
Working on client projects & internal initiatives, I...

- Lead on creative strategy, discovery & insights
- Deliver quant & qual research, design sprints, commercial, digital marketing strategies & facilitate workshops 
- Consult with stakeholders to define & design user experiences & tech roadmaps
- Work with tech & delivery teams to produce end state products

Currently specialising in Sustainability & Financial Services

### Senior Design Strategist @ Capital One
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | London, England, United Kingdom
Led the development of various new product and go to market strategies in the credit sector, as well as working with regulators to create new user-centred insolvency regulations.

### Design Strategist @ Capital One
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | London, United Kingdom

### User Experience Designer @ IKAWA Coffee
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | London, United Kingdom
Having expanded into home roasting, I was brought in to redesign the IKAWA Home user experience. The brief was to conduct extensive user research, using data analytics from current users. These insights were then taken forward to design & business proposals.

At the end of this period we had restructured the business model to include:

- Target market and messaging 
- A new product offering for this market
- New digital products to accompany the proposals
- Brand strategy
- A whole new business model, which received external investment and has launched

### Designer & Visualiser @ Freelance, self-employed
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | London, United Kingdom

### Architectural Designer @ Platform 5 Architects
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | London, United Kingdom
At Platform 5 I worked on projects of vastly varying scale, from extensions on listed buildings to 60+ unit housing developments. I became responsible for the success of projects as large as £60m, producing detail design packages and liaising with clients, contractors and engineers through BIM and other packages.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Innovation Design Engineering
Imperial College London

### Master of Arts - MA in Innovation Design Engineering
Royal College of Art

### B.A. (HONS) in Architecture
Oxford Brookes University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jacob-spradley

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Last updated: 2026-04-13