# Jenny Kolcun > Product Design Leadership @Adobe Location: San Rafael, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jennykolcun Mission-driven product design leader with a diverse background at startups, agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and non-profits. I build empathetic team culture, help envision new products, and get them built. I’m good at visualizing ideas and rallying teams to create actionable strategies of meaningful experiences. The common threads throughout my career — make useful things, create a great working environment, and empower people through education. ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Design Manager, Acrobat Generative AI @ Adobe Jan 2024 – Present ### Senior Product Design Manager, Acrobat for Small Business @ Adobe Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Staff Product Designer @ Adobe Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Principal Product Designer @ Udemy Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Helped millions of students around the world find the right skills to learn and to succeed with their learning goals. Provided experience design and strategy in collaboration with designers, researchers, engineers, product managers and product owners to identify new opportunities. Advised and designed solutions to integrate across multiple product lines for consumers plus enterprise subscriptions. I also mentored and directed work of other product designers, and shape team process improvements along the way. Mentor to employees adjacent to my team in company mentorship program. ### Senior Product Designer, Search and Discovery @ Udemy Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, CA ### Lead Product Designer, Subscriber Experience @ Scribd Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, CA Led core product design strategies for a consumer ebook & audiobook subscription app. Managed monthly customer research studies to expose and solve key customer pain points. Redesigned product page and core discovery flow, resulting in increased discovery success, engagement time, and retention. Mentored other designers on the team. ### Lead User Experience Designer @ Spring Studio Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, CA Consultancy acquired by BBVA — Design lead for BBVA consumer and small business banking products ### Senior User Experience Designer @ Spring Studio Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, CA Design lead for white label mobile consumer banking apps for First Data Innovation Labs, and a redesign of Franklin Templeton's Financial Advisor and B2B customer website systems. ### Creative Director @ Edutopia - The George Lucas Educational Foundation Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Rafael, Ca Brought modern UX and content strategy methodologies to a print and video editorial team, redesigned website templates and information architecture to improve content discoverability. Collaborated with team leads to deliver creative services across the agency, managed direct report + a network of freelancers. ### Interactive Design Director @ WestEd Jan 2006 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco, CA Design manager, created a process and place for UX design where none existed at an EdTech nonprofit agency. Increased capacity and hired a design and front-end dev team of 5 direct reports + community of contractors. Led design for education management software, interactive student assessments and online teacher training modules for Gates Foundation, US Dept. of Ed, National Science Foundation and First 5 CA. ### Interactive Art Director @ iCrossing Jan 2000 – Jan 2006 | San Francisco, CA (Formerly Proxicom) Directed project design teams for Adobe and Chevron accounts for over 5 years. Mentored team of designers and supported account management. Hired and managed a flexible team of freelance creatives as needed. ### Sr. Interactive Designer @ iCrossing Jan 1999 – Jan 2000 | San Francisco, CA (Formerly Proxicom) Designed information architecture and interaction design for complex, entitlement-based, and personalized investment website. Led design team to create user interface, interaction pattern library, and visual branding for suite of health web applications. ### Senior Designer @ Lightspan Partnership (now Plato Learning) Jan 1996 – Jan 1998 | San Diego, CA Managed an in-house design team for a start-up K-12 children’s educational software company—lead designer for concept, design, and prototypes of new software and supporting classroom materials. ### Designer @ Lightspan Partnership (now Plato Learning) Jan 1993 – Jan 1996 | San Diego, CA ### Associate Graphic Designer @ Jostens Jan 1990 – Jan 1993 | San Diego, California, United States Jostens Learning (now Compass Learning) — This part-time job paid for college—and gave me real-world experience at a fast-paced K–12 EdTech start-up that no bachelor’s, master’s, or intern program could rival. • Designed award-winning teacher classroom materials • Designed interactive trade show experiences and marketing campaigns ## Education ### Bachelor in Advertising/Graphic Design The Art Institute of California-San Diego ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jennykolcun - Portfolio: http://www.jennykolcundesign.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/jennykolcun JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jennykolcun/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13