# Kelly Schalow > Product Designer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kellyschalow An inquisitive designer, always looking for the core of the problem to uncover a better solution. Collaborative approach with product and development teams to launch user-friendly applications. ## Work Experience ### Lead Designer @ Quartzy Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | Hayward, California, United States Lead designer with a focus on e-commerce experience. ### Lead Product Designer @ Potato Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Lead UX Designer @ RapidAPI Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Lead design and research of the RapidAPI consumer platform. Refined the API Marketplace to scale for more products and API types. Identified improvements to team management and collaboration within the application. ### Lead User Experience Designer @ First Republic Bank Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Researched, prototyped, and tested improvements to consumer-facing banking applications. Improved client experience and satisfaction throughout their financial journey by optimizing account creation and money movement. Created libraries, templates, components for internal and external design consistency. ### Senior User Experience Designer @ First Republic Bank Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, CA Worked with a lean team to conceptualize and launch a full redesign of the consumer-facing banking applications. Innovated on key flows to ensure account security and adoptability. Created interactive prototypes and conducted moderated testing to validate new designs. ### User Interface Designer @ Vendavo Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 Designed and launched mobile application to support sales representatives and managers in daily workflow. Led end-to-end design process, including user feedback sessions, wireframing, prototyping, and developer hand-off. ### Interaction Design Intern @ Intuit Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Mountain View, California Designed internal communication platform for Design for Delight, promoting design thinking among all employees. The goal is to encourage employees to use research and design methods for every task to uncover effective solutions. I helped with user research, talking with stake holders and potential users of the platform, to better understand our target audience, their needs and goals, and the information that we would be presenting. I also helped with designing the wireframes of the platform. Finally, I was responsible for creating the visuals for the platform and producing the visual assets needed to build it. ### Web Design and Developer Intern @ Realit-e Networks Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Seattle, Washington Realit-e Networks is a small company based in Seattle, they design and develop websites for several clients and developed their own backend for clients to easily update and maintain e-commerce websites. I created visuals for the Seattle community portal sites. These sites would provide information of their respective community in Seattle, including weather forecasts, shopping and food deals, and local attractions. ### Web Designer and Developer @ KusoPop Website Redesign Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | San Jose, California KusoPop is an up and coming name in the collective vinyl figure market. They have several great artists supporting them and have worked with KidRobot, the largest name in the vinyl figure industry. I redesigned the product gallery and detail pages to improve visibility and scanning, integrated their Tumblr account into the site’s blog feed, and improved the site’s iOS (Apple’s iPhone Operating System) experience by creating a bypass for the Flash introduction page and iOS screen icon. ## Education ### BS in Human Centered Design and Engineering University of Washington Jan 2005 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kellyschalow - Portfolio: http://www.kellyschalow.com - Portfolio: http://www.kusopop.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/kellyschalow JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kellyschalow/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25