# Trevor Jones

> Director of Product Design | former Sony, PlayStation, Pearson, Razorfish

Location: Oakland, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/trevorjones1

I build and lead design teams that solve high-stakes problems.
That means redesigning commerce systems that generate 350% revenue growth. Building self-service platforms that unlock $2M in new revenue within a quarter. Transforming authoring infrastructure that cuts production time and scales to support millions of students.
My approach is consistent regardless of industry: establish research as the foundation, build systems that outlast the engagement, and develop the team alongside the product. I've led designers across the US, Australia, and Japan — developing them as leaders, built design functions from scratch, and made design a strategic partner at every stop.
Currently investing in AI-accelerated design practice — building production-ready prototypes that compress what used to take months into days, placing more emphasis on what to create and why.

## Work Experience
### Director/Consultant @ Freelance
Jan 2023 – Present | Oakland, California, United States
Product, design, brand, and strategic consulting for startups/SMBs

### Director Of Product Design @ Pearson
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led research and design for an authoring platform for educators to publish, assign, and assess educational content

### Director Of Product Design @ Valimail
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led all product design initiatives across Valimail's product portfolio, including creating their inaugural design system which streamlined the design/dev handoff from days to minutes, refactoring the UI for an email phishing detection product, reducing product ideation time by facilitating design sprints resulting in customer-validated prototypes, hiring and mentoring designers, and developing design standards which reduced development time and simplified the user experience across their product portfolio.

### Director/Consultant @ Rising High
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Design, strategy consulting and workshop facilitation for startups and SMBs, which included developing and facilitating full-day creativity workshops to identify creative blocks and harness everyone's innate creativity.

### Design Consultant @ Razorfish
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
User-centered design for Charles Schwab's web experience, which included: Investing, Fees, and Checking, which also resulted in creating Schwab's first design system for their marketing design team.

### Principal Designer @ PlayStation
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Product and design strategy for the PlayStation ecosystem, resulting in the following releases:
• Tournaments, PSN profiles, and the ‘Mosaic’ UI
• Standardized commerce checkout flow across devices

### Design Manager @ PlayStation
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Managed 7 designers creating cross-platform network services for video, music and games
• Design lead/manager for the Playstation Store relaunch on console, desktop and mobile
• Game revenue increased by 350% and PS Plus memberships increased by 115% during key game launches during fiscal launch year

### Art Director @ PlayStation
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led a multinational design team to unify Sony's visual and interactive design language across product lines, earning an award for design process innovation

### Senior Designer @ Organic Inc.
Jan 2006 – Jan 2011 | San Francisco Bay Area
Online ad campaigns, microsites and client pitches
Clients: Intel, Sony, Mitsubishi, Bank of America, Kimberly Clark, Warner Bros.
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Awards: 
• IAC Award (Best Banking Website), 2009
• Favorite Website Award, The FWA, 2009
• Creativity International Award (Best Consumer Website - Silver), 2010
• Webby Nomination, 2010 
• David Ogilvy Award, 2010

### Art Director/Illustrator @ The Grove Consultants International
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Design Researcher @ New Media Innovation Center
Jan 2002 – Jan 2003

### 3D Artist @ Electronic Arts
Jan 2002 – Jan 2002
Environment artist for ‘James Bond 2: Nightfire’ for PlayStation and XBox


## Education
### BCom in Marketing
University of Alberta

### BFA in Communication Design
Emily Carr University of Art and Design


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/trevorjones
- Portfolio: http://www.trevorishere.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-13