# Kyle Becker > UX Strategy, Research, & Design Consultant | MBA | ex-frog | ex-J.P. Morgan Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kylebecker Website: nefko.xyz UX strategist, researcher, and designer focused on financial and web3 applications. I have 12 years of experience working with digital product teams in cross-cultural environments. Passionate about the intersection of product strategy, design, and organizational transformation, I’m at my best where product complexity comes from the context. I have experience in design consulting for fortune 100 companies in both Austin and Shanghai and I've played key roles building in-house capacity on teams undergoing agile transformations in the US, El Salvador, Myanmar, and on remote teams. I've worked on qualitative design research projects in more than 10 countries across North America, Asia, and Africa. I hold a degree in design from the University of Kansas, a full stack web certification from the University of Pennsylvania, and I’m currently an MBA student at the University of Illinois. I hold, a BFA in Design and certifications as a Scrum Master, Scrum Product Owner and Full Stack Web Developer. Photography: http://photography.gnefkow.com/ ## Work Experience ### UX Researcher, Strategist, & Designer (Fractional) @ Rebind AI Jan 2024 – Present After concluding a robust research project with the Rebind team, I started working closely with the product and executive teams to shape the evolution of Rebind's AI reading experience. ### UX Mentor @ Odisea Jan 2024 – Present Odisea Labs is a web3 incubator with a steadfast commitment to decentralizing power, that focuses on delivering a spectrum of advanced technologies, from blockchain to artificial intelligence, to underserved areas and communities. As a mentor for Odisea Labs, I help web3 startups with their storytelling and UX strategies. ### UX Strategist, Researcher, & Designer @ Unknown Jan 2012 – Present I help product teams develop and align on their product strategies through a combination of customer research, ideation and concepting workshops, and alignment and strategy workshops. Clients include: Rebind Publishing, Guidea Design, Sugarcane Finance, Crypto Research and Design Lab, ReSource Finance, and more! ### User Experience Researcher @ Rocketbook Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 Assisting the Rocketbook product team with user experience research. ### Researcher (Contract) @ Crypto Council for Innovation Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 Collaborate with CCI on reports that show the human side of the web3 industry. On this project, we were focused on Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN). Our goal was to tell human stories about people who use DePIN. ### Fractional UX Designer (Contract) @ Quantified.ai Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Remote Quantified builds AI tools that help enterprises train their staff in a more dynamic way. I worked with the company for 12 months in a fractional capacity as their product team underwent an internal reorganization and renewal. During my time with Quantified, I played many roles—from user research, creating journey maps, helping get Confluence organized, writing Jira tickets, implementing the company's first figma toolkit, and designing a tool that streamlined a number of their internal processes. ### Lead Design Researcher and Strategist @ Crypto Research & Design Lab Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States Led the research and report creation for four reports that analyzed aspects of the crypto/web3 industry. ### Design Strategist VP, Onyx by J.P. Morgan @ J.P. Morgan Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area As a Design Strategist in Onyx, J.P. Morgan's blockchain division, I interviewed customers and worked with product managers to identify and articulate new opportunities to leverage the firm's cutting edge enterprise blockchain solutions. ### Lead Product Designer @ Grid AI Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States ### Lead UX Designer @ Yoma Bank Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Yangon, Myanmar Worked with the Head of Service Design to hire, train, and mentor a team of designers to facilitate Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) based Yoma Bank's digital transformation. We built a team of designers, business analysts, product owners, and developers that connects in-field insights with functioning digital products within the organization's broader service design framework. As UX Design Lead, my responsibilities leaned on my experience and knowledge of digital UX design and agile methodologies to lay the groundwork for design-ops practices and processes that helped the organization transition to an agile workflow with a customer-centerd focus. ### Senior Interaction Designer @ frog Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Shanghai City, China As a Senior Designer, I worked in both Shanghai and Hong Kong to help clients understand and develop product strategies for Asia's fast-changing markets. My responsibilities included planning, conducting, and synthesizing findings from design research as well as crafting workshop experiences that helped companies realize value and develop strategies from these insights. As an interaction designer, I also helped clients transform these strategies into high-resolution digital-design artifacts and coached client-side designers on the best practices that would enable them to successfully implement solutions in-house. ### Lead Product Design and Strategy Consultant @ 121Giving Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Remote As a product owner and designer at 121 Giving, I've concentrated on streamlining the customer experience through crafting a more cohesive brand narrative and product flow. ### CEO @ MedicSana Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Austin, Texas Area MedicSana is an mHealth company targeting underserved segments in growing economies. I wore many hats at MedicSana... As Chief Executive Officer, I've been in charge of MedicSana's overall strategy and direction. I helped the company raise a seed round of investment that enabled us to go full time and hire contractors to build the product and am in charge of the day-to-day relationships with stakeholders and partners. As Designer and Researcher, I was responsible for building our qualitative research strategy that enabled us to identify a viable value proposition and design the interface for our MVP. As we entered production, I used my knowledge from our research to play the role of Product Owner on our scrum team. ### Interaction Designer @ frog Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 My mentors at Frog taught me to use storytelling as a means to bring an empathetic understanding of consumers into the business world. As an interaction designer, I helped craft a cohesive experiences across branded ecosystems. With the Frog team, I gained experience in the entire design thinking and execution process including secondary research, planning and moderating contextual inquiries,and presenting, synthesizing and ultimately designing experiences based on research-driven insights for several Fortune 100 clients. ### Industrial Designer @ M3 Design Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Round Rock, Texas As an intern at M3 Design, I developed my industrial design skills gaining hardware design experience in the industrial tablets, medical, and petcare industries. Through sketches and physical prototypes, I helped the team not only find the balance between ergonomic requirements and engineering constraints, but develop and express a brand language for a product that would become a flagship device in our client’s process management product line. ### Industrial Designer @ Zap Electric Vehicles Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Santa Rosa, CA As an Intern at Zap, I got to explore the inner workings of an Electric Vehicle startup. Day-to-day activities included helping engineers and fabricators construct and document new prototypes for US and Asian markets. In addition to physical fabrication, my skills in Solidworks were a huge help to the team, particularly after being trained with 3D scanning software. The team also leveraged my sketching skills to quickly explore new concepts for future projects. I also had the opportunity to represent Zap at the Korea Green Forum in Seoul, South Korea. At the conference, after my presentation to more than 200 policy makers, trade organizers, and industry leaders, I was able to network with many green businesses on the international stage providing new partnership and marketing opportunities for the company. ### Urban Simulation Animator @ HNTB Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 I worked for HNTB as an intern three times between 2005 and 2010 with both the Urban Simulation and Landscape Architecture departments. With the Urban Simulation department, most of my work entailed using 3D Studio Max to creating 3D representations of architectural projects from engineering drawings for user testing, pitches, and marketing purposes. This included a wide range of responsibilities from graphic design, basic movie editing, texture creation and 3D modeling. In the Landscape Architecture department, I assisted with renders of proposed concepts and spent some time with CAD software developing planning documents for new projects. ## Education ### Masters of Business Administration University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ### Full Stack Software Development Bootcamp University of Pennsylvania ### BFA in Design The University of Kansas ### Semester Abroad Folkwang Universität der Künste ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kyle-becker-44132223 --- Source: https://flows.cv/kylebecker JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kylebecker/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31