# Ruth Thomson

> Senior Product Designer @ MyKaarma

Location: Denver Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ruththomson

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Designer @ myKaarma
Jan 2025 – Present | Los Angeles, California, United States

### Senior Product Designer @ Platter
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Los Angeles, California, United States

### Product Designer @ Vidsy
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | London Area, United Kingdom
- I’m a Product Designer on the AI Squad. We identify opportunities for automation and AI within the creative process. I lead discovery and design for AI powered concept generator, brief builder, and an inspiration curator tool.

### UI/UX Designer @ Conversion.com
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | London, England, United Kingdom
- UX/UI: Created high fidelity mockups, defined brand identity,  created wireframes and built functional prototypes
- Used insights to design cross-platform experiences (e.g. landing pages, quote journeys, registration funnels, etc)

### UI/UX Designer @ Riot Games
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Los Angeles Area
- Acted as Lead Designer in creating an internal hub for talent acquisition at Riot while working full-time as a recruiter Case Study (PW: summer)
- Product was a web-based knowledge hub for recruiters, hiring managers, interviewers, and other members of the recruiting process. Aim was to centralize recruiting knowledge for Riot Games
- Conducted user interviews, usability testing, created personas, competitive analysis, wireframing, high fidelity mockups

### Technical Recruiter @ Riot Games
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Los Angeles, California, United States

### Technical Recruiter (Contract) @ Amazon
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area
Technical recruiting for Alexa

### Technical Recruiter (Contract) @ Facebook
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area
- find and engage candidates for software engineering roles within product (full-stack development) or infrastructure (backend) pillars
- source using entelo, linkedin, google/bing x-ray searching, occasionally using github + stackoverflow
- learn about candidate's background, answer questions about the role, identify concerns, and prepare them for the interview process
- improve internal tools for more efficient collaboration and candidate engagement

### Research Assistant @ New York University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Civic Engagement project with Dr. LaRue Allen – cross-cultural studies on youths’ engagement in political/civic systems.
-	involved in interviewing teachers in NYC, creating literature reviews, recruiting NYU students to participate in surveys.

### Research Assistant @ New York University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Longitudinal study with Diane Hughes on children & their parents in Manhattan schools, examining ethnic and cultural differences in learning.
-	analyzed interviews for intersections of race, gender, transcriptions


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Psychology
New York University


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/ruththomson
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ruththomson/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-13