Product Design Lead with 9 years experience in start-ups and scale-ups.

Product Design Lead with 9 years experience in start-ups and scale-ups.

Hey! Jake here. I’m a Product Design Lead who loves working with ambitious teams to solve real user problems and drive business growth.


I work as an end-to-end designer, informing my work with data and research to deliver design that has a real impact.


My work spans native and web apps, landing pages and internal tools. Whatever I am working on, I aim to create work that genuinely makes things easier, clearer, and more intuitive for real people so that businesses can flourish.


Below is a small preview of my work, for full case studies please get in touch.

Hey! Jake here. I’m a Product Design Lead who loves working with ambitious teams to solve real user problems and drive business growth.


I work as an end-to-end designer, informing my work with data and research to deliver design that has a real impact.


My work spans native and web apps, landing pages and internal tools. Whatever I am working on, I aim to create work that genuinely makes things easier, clearer, and more intuitive for real people so that businesses can flourish.


Below is a small preview of my work, for full case studies please get in touch.

I led the design for the Europe’s fastest growing digital pharmacy, helping 500,000 active patients manage their medicine.

I led the design for the Europe’s fastest growing digital pharmacy, helping 500,000 active patients manage their medicine.

I was responsible for the design of our native app and web platform while also managing a small team of product and content designers.


I delivered work that increased order conversion by 12% and reduced support contacts by 65% during a period of focus on profitability.


I drove a user-led design approach across the product teams to ensure we were always solving real patient problems.


I also led a cross functional group of designers, engineers, and product managers to improve our design system strategy and execution across both consumer products and internal tooling.

Early designer at a fast growing fintech scale-up helping to simplify the mortgage process.

Early designer at a fast growing fintech scale-up helping to simplify the mortgage process.

I worked across multiple product teams, helping the company to scale and deliver £3bn in mortgage submissions.


My work involved user research, product strategy, feature delivery and developing Habito's first Design System.


I designed features that led to an increase in customer retention by 47% over a 6 month period and increase in product usage and customer engagement by 14%.

I worked across multiple product teams, helping the company to scale and deliver £3bn in mortgage submissions.


My work involved user research, product strategy, feature delivery and developing Habito's first Design System.


I designed features that led to an increase in customer retention by 47% over a 6 month period and increase in product usage and customer engagement by 14%.

Founding designer at Fluent, an LLM powered BI tool that allows non-technical users to ask data questions using natural language and get answers instantly.

Founding designer at Fluent, an LLM powered BI tool that allows non-technical users to ask data questions using natural language and get answers instantly.

I joined as the Founding Product Designer to establish design as a core part of the business, ensuring the product struck a balance between the founder’s vision and insights from early adopters.


I designed table stakes BI functionality in a new area of the product during a pivot. I also led product strategy for 2 quarters during a period of leadership transition to ensure we could keep delivering at pace.

Want to see more?

For full case studies that cover research, process and impact, please get in touch.


Email: jacobstewart18@gmail.com

© Jake Stewart 2024

© Jake Stewart 2024

© Jake Stewart 2024