Senior UX Designer · Rocket Mortgage's, Rocket Close
Jul 2021 – Present
Rocket Close · Mortgage closing & title services
- Led 0→1 design of Nova, an AI-assisted workspace combining agentic automation with human-in-the-loop decision support across title, notarization, and post-close workflows; consolidated 3–5 disconnected systems (Atlas, Salesforce, vendor tools) into one guided experiencea earning a 2024 Rockie Award nomination.
Recognition
2024 Rockie Award Nominee — Innovation in Technology, selected from 15,000+ Rocket Companies employees for AI-driven platform and workflow design.
- Designed Nova's identity-matching workflow that replaces manual document scanning — reducing a 30–90 minute per-file task to an AI-led first pass with human verification, surfacing decision-ready summaries instead of raw documents.
- Defined human–AI interaction principles for Nova: bounded autonomy, transparent reasoning, ranked fallback decisions, and clear next-step guidance — establishing patterns now used as visionary benchmarks shaping multi-year company AI direction.
- Partnered with applied AI engineers in daily working sessions to define model behavior, eval criteria, and failure-mode handling for Nova's identity-matching and decision-support features — translating between design intent and model capability, including confidence thresholds, fallback paths, and human-review escalation.
- Owned end-to-end redesign of Clear Sign, Rocket's Remote Online Notarization platform, across a 4-phase evolution (2022–present); delivered mobile-first, WCAG-aligned experience and reduced QR-related support calls from ~14% to under 1% by replacing scan flows with SMS-based ID verification.
- Designed Clear Sign's Phase 4 multimodal AI: an agent that replaces the human notary by observing screen state and signer audio in real time — guiding users through confusion via semantic cues ("why isn't my camera working?") and flagging security risks like signer duress through tone analysis.
- Partnered cross-functionally with engineering, product, legal, data, and operations to de-risk technical complexity through high-fidelity prototypes; secured executive buy-in on Nova as sole UX lead before PM/PO assignment. Mentor designers and champion UX research and accessibility practice across the org.