Jey Austen

Professional Experience

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Senior Web Designer ▪ dbt Labs ▪ 2023-Current

✷  Develop and maintain the Web Design System and WWW properties

✷  Lead the design of the website brand update, reskinning all design system components

✷  Illustrate site imagery, diagrams, charts, blog images, and iconography

✷  Aided in the replatforming to Sanity by designing each style and component

✷  Collaborate cross-functionally between the design and web teams, working directly with stakeholders, strategists, and front end engineers.

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Senior Product, Brand, and Visual Designer ▪ Freelance ▪ 2015-2024

✷  Offer full branding and web designservices to small B2C businesses with less than 2 mil in revenue

✷  Product design using Agile methodologies based on userresearch for a new consumer social app

✷  Not currently accepting new clients

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Senior Designer ▪ Nymbus ▪ 2020-2022

✷  Designed full brands including logos, colors, and UI/UX for banking websites

✷  Collaborated directly with clients and stakeholders todesign new brands, bringing over $750,000 in new business

✷  Served on the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Board and led Pride initiatives

✷  Mentored Junior Designers and grew as a team through weekly skillshares

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Visual Designer ▪ Armature Works ▪ 2019-2020

✷  Created print and digital materials for 20 separate restaurant concepts

✷  Designed UI for a wifi landing page that collected 5,000 emails in the first week of launch

✷  Directed photoshoots

✷  Refreshed old brand collateral, resulting in a 300% sales increase in the first week

✷  Built a contact form for the website that resulted in 15 times the amount of weekly inquiries

✷  Introduced project management practices to the team by using Slack and Asana

✷  Hired junior designers

✷  Collaborated with design teams to offer feedback andkeep websites on-brand

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Graphic Designer ▪ Seaworld Parks and Entertainment ▪ 2017-2019

✷  Art directed all permanent signage for 2019 Inside Look event

✷  Managed request load of up to 45 simultaneous projects

✷  Assisted art directors with mood boards, prop creation, and set decoration

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Design Intern, Junior Designer ▪ Baylor University ▪ 2013-2017

✷  Conceptualized and implemented looks for the university’s biggest annual events, Sing and Pigskin

✷  Created full campaigns of deliverables, including posters, t-shirts, and commercials

✷  Collaborated with in-house marketing teams across multiple departments

✷  Mentored younger students to develop their creativity

Education

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Bachelor of Arts ▪ Baylor University ▪ 2017

✷  Film and Digital Media - 3.54 GPA