Senior UX Designer · Rocket Companies
Jul 2021 – Present
Rocket Mortgage & Rocket Close · Detroit, MI (Remote)
- 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 experience and earned a 2024 Rockie Award nomination — selected from 15,000+ employees for Innovation in Technology.
- 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.
- Owned end-to-end redesign of Clear Sign, Rocket's Remote Online Notarization platform, across a 3-year, 3-phase evolution (2022–2024); 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.
- Partnered cross-functionally with engineering, product, legal, data, and operations to define problem spaces, de-risk technical complexity through high-fidelity prototypes, and align stakeholders before engineering investment; secured executive buy-in on Nova as sole UX lead before PM/PO assignment.
- Mentored junior and mid-level designers; led critique practice and championed UX research, accessibility, and systems thinking across the product organization.
Recognition
2024 Rockie Award Nominee — Innovation in Technology, selected from 15,000+ Rocket Companies employees for AI-driven platform and workflow design.