Hi! I’m Jesse.

The human behind the JEGOUX design machine.

I’m a Product Design & UX leader with diverse experience transforming the complexities of startups, SaaS, and enterprise needs into streamlined, user-friendly solutions. I blend strategic direction with practical design expertise to guide mobile and web products and services that deliver measurable outcomes. Ready to elevate your team or business with someone who gets things done? If so, let’s connect—rock, paper, scissors for who buys the coffee! 🚀

— DESIGN ETHOS —

As a leader, I'm dedicated to inspiring my design team and achieving outstanding results through clear strategy, efficient processes, and collaborative models.

As a manager, I'm committed to helping every team and team member thrive, ensuring they reach their highest potential and deliver their best work.

As a designer,

PROMOTE INCLUSIVITY

GUIDE WITH STRATEGY

HAVE UNBOUNDED CURIOSITY

THINK END TO END

ENABLE AUTONOMY & TRUST

OUTCOMES OVER OUTPUT

Concentrate on crafting the right solutions effectively and measure success by the impact we make, not just by the volume of work or feature overload.

Cultivate collaboration with groups across the organization to encourage a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming team environment that thrives on different perspectives and experiences.

Align design efforts with long-term goals. Prioritize projects that drive growth and innovation, ensuring every decision contributes to our overarching mission and success.

Encourage a culture where questions are welcomed and exploration is limitless. Sometimes, it’s okay to break the rules or make new ones!

Understand how every component, interaction, and decision within the system influences and is influenced by others. Cause and effect.

Establish design and working conventions that inspire confidence, ensuring users and teams to feel respected and trusted, thereby enhancing satisfaction and engagement for everyone.

— RECENT WORK —

  • The Kin

    PRINCIPAL DESIGN + STRATEGY

    A case study detailing the inception, strategy, tactics, and launch of a personalized pet services startup platform.

  • Kinship

    HEAD OF PRODUCT DESIGN & UX

    Discover how I led the design, research, and branding for six pet technology, wellness, and services businesses.

  • Cambia Health Solutions

    DESIGN DIRECTOR

    A case study highlighting UX and design optimization across the enterprise through the implementation of a Human-Centered Design Framework and an employee training program.

  • Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield

    SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGN MANAGER

    A case study demonstrating how we resolved critical pain points in the Regence Health Plan experience.

  • Misc. UX & Product Design

    UX MANAGER & PRINCIPAL DESIGNER

    ** UNDER CONSTRUCTION **

— PARTNERS IN DESIGN —

  • "Jesse is a top-notch designer, collaborator and leader. A tireless evangelist for human-centered design, he advocates for the importance of empathy for the user throughout the design process. Jesse exudes key leadership qualities, including relationship-building, positivity, accountability, inspiration, and the ability to focus on the bigger picture of business strategy and product management...."

    Amy Santee - Career Strategist & Coaching

  • "Jesse is a dynamic designer who has deep dedication to user-centered design and an inspired vision for the future of the healthcare industry. He could always be counted on for his encyclopedic recall of research data and his readiness to share and collaborate. As a team leader, he was always willing to take the time to workshop a complex problem...I’m grateful to have worked with Jesse and can highly recommend him as a leader and colleague..."

    Ty Meyer - Product Design Strategist

  • "Jesse is a superb leader and strategist with respect to designing companies and products that incorporate human connection as a core value. Jesse brought so much passion for human-centered design, grounded in a cohesive theoretical framework and tempered by extensive first-hand experience. He designed business processes, marketing materials, technology products that attended to the entire lifecycle of a customer's experience with our company. ..."

    David Stocker - Chief Technology Officer

  • " Jesse can take complex ideas and make them simple and understandable to our executives and customers, and deliver, with confidence, the "why" behind the design and strategy. I love Jesse's enthusiasm and dedication to the user experience. Jesse had driven the Digital organization to think about the user more holistically, in the end to end experience. He certainly influenced my work and the way I think about design, UX, and user experience as a whole..."

    Tary Kaylor - Senior Product Manager