# Spencer James > Product Designer - AI and Robotics Location: Santa Clara, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/spencerjames Portfolio 👉 spencerleejames.com Product Designer since 2014. Skilled in creating exceptional user experiences, launching successful products, and leading design teams. I thrive when creating tools that help people get work done and make data-driven decisions, especially in highly technical domains. Specialties: Product design, UX/UI design, user research, usability testing, user flows, information architecture, interface design, wireframing, prototyping, analytics and optimization, frontend web engineering, agile software development. Send me a message 👉 spencerleejames@gmail.com ## Work Experience ### Product Design - Ion endoluminal platform @ Intuitive Jan 2025 – Present 🤖 🫁 ### Product Design - AI and Robotics tools @ Cruise Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 Led redesign of Cruise’s remote assistance tooling in support of relaunch of driverless ridehail service. Design efforts were on track to enable 10x fleet scale through streamlined workflows, increased clarity of safety-critical information, enhanced maneuver planning capabilities, and significantly reduced clutter. Led design for 0-1 launch of internal customizable dashboarding platform for AI/ML model testing, observability, and analysis. Platform now has ~180 weekly users and 100’s of official layouts, and gates release of all AV software at Cruise Led design for 0-1 launch of internal data labeling management platform used to track $10M annual spend and production of 3.7B labels. Platform launch and labeling tool enhancements led to a 79% YoY reduction in cost per label in 2022 and greater process automation. ### UX Design Lead @ Data Theorem, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States Drove product strategy/design efforts by utilizing UX methodology to crystallize vision, validate direction, clarify requirements, align executive team, and create actionable designs for a suite of enterprise security products used by Fortune 100 companies. UX Lead for Web Secure and Synergy design system, launched June 2020 Led and mentored a team of 3 designers while making individual contributions to product design and design system ### UX Engineer @ Data Theorem, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, CA Product design and frontend engineering for security product suite Technologies: Javascript (ES6), React, Redux, Redux-saga, Flow, Jest, React Testing Library, Material-UI ### UX Freelancer @ Self-Employed Jan 2015 – Jan 2021 UX research, UX design, and web development for Retail / E-commerce, Service and Hospitality, and Software industry clients Most of this work falls under NDA Selected projects: Dotei Records, 2019-2020: doteirecords.com • Web Design, Woocommerce/WordPress Development ### UX Teaching Assistant - User Centered Design, User Research @ University of Washington Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Seattle, WA Taught over 100 students as Graduate Teaching Assistant while pursuing MS full-time Courses Taught: • HCDE 318 – User Centered Design • HCDE 313 - Intro to Research ### UX Design Intern @ HBO Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Seattle, WA UX Designer for HBO's Digital Products Team • Collaborated with cross-functional team to design and implement a device management portal for HBO GO, enabling self-service for the #1 customer support expense (>4000 tickets manually serviced in 2016) • Developed VR prototype and conducted research study to determine best practices for VR typography, documented results and trained 20 person UX team during development of HBO GO VR app (>10,000 installs via Google Play Store) ### UX Consultant @ Gauss Surgical Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area • Spearheaded product UX for a biotech startup whose FDA-approved mobile medical devices measure intra-operative blood loss via computer vision and is used in operating rooms at Cedars-Sinai, Stanford, and Harvard • Translated 500+ hours of user research and usability studies into improved user experience across entire product line, including enhanced contextual feedback cues, simplified interactions, and user interface enhancements, leading to FDA approval of devices and $12M Series A funding • Produced software verification protocols and regulatory documentation, contributing to two successful FDA submissions Accomplishments: - Produced Usability Study White-paper for Gauss Surgical’s Triton Application - Personally conducted a 50-case clinical study for FDA Submission ### Clinical Research Consultant @ Gauss Surgical Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 • Supervised four-person research team during laboratory experiments and clinical data collection, resulting in a study published in Anesthesia and Analgesia • Recruited and trained two new employees in data collection, participant recruitment, experiment protocols, results documentation, and sterile procedures ### Research Assistant @ San Jose State University Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Jose, CA Undergraduate Research Assistant on two research projects at San Jose State. • Working with Dr. Mark Van Selst, ran a controlled Human Factors experiment on the effects of alcohol on perception and cognition. I recruited and screened participants, obtained and documented informed consent, followed experimental protocol to titrate and distribute doses of alcohol or placebo, prepped and maintained the lab before and after experiments, conducted participant trials and documented the results. • Working with Dr. Greg Feist, I conducted literature review and administrative tasks in support of the revision of Dr. Feist's introductory psychology text. ## Education ### MS Human Centered Design and Engineering in Human Computer Interaction University of Washington ### Certificate: Responsive Web Design in Javascript Algorithms and Data Structures freeCodeCamp ### BA Behavioral Science and Psychology in Magna Cum Laude San José State University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/spencerleejames - Portfolio: https://spencerleejames.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/spencerjames JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/spencerjames/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13