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yassee mohebbi

yassee mohebbi

RESUME

Product Leadership Experience

​Collage  Director of UX/UI

DEC 2022 – PRESENT · BETHESDA, MD (REMOTE)

  • End-to-End Product Strategy: Architect and execute UX strategy for fluen.ci, Collage’s flagship SaaS application; drove a 50% increase in Monthly Active Users within six months of launch.

  • AI Tooling & Innovation: Designed AI-powered analytics tools enabling enterprise clients to extract rapid, deep cultural insights, steadily expanding platform adoption.

  • Design Systems & Governance: Built and maintained Mosaic, the company’s React/Figma component library, establishing accessibility and design governance across all web assets.

  • Data-Informed Optimization: Synthesize Fullstory and Google Analytics metrics to eliminate workflow friction and validate product features.
    Brand & Marketing Alignment: Overhauled company web properties and corporate branding to unify digital marketing with product UI.

​Optimizely  Staff Product Designer

APR 2021 – DEC 2022 · REMOTE

  • Enterprise UX Architecture: Owned end-to-end UX for Optimizely Data Platform post-acquisition, designing real-time segment builders and campaign tools that enabled enterprise marketers to target audiences in minutes instead of hours.

  • Cross-Product Unification & Governance: Partnered with the VP of Design to unify navigation and interaction patterns across Optimizely’s entire SaaS suite into a single cohesive platform.

  • System Scaling: Evolved the enterprise Axiom design system in Figma, aligning component integrity across desktop and mobile frameworks for multiple product teams.

  • Design Leadership & Advocacy: Mentored designers and engineers in interaction design and accessibility; evangelized design thinking company-wide and supported internal ERGs.

​Zaius (Acquired by Optimizely)  Senior Product Designer

MAR 2018 – APR 2021 · BOSTON, MA

  • E-Commerce & Campaign Tooling: Led UX/UI design for core platform features, architecting complex cross-channel campaign builders, segment creation workflows, and real-time behavioral tracking interfaces.

  • Design Systems & Scalability: Built the organization’s initial component library and style guide in Figma, standardizing UI patterns and accelerating design-to-development handoffs.

​DZone  Lead UX/UI Designer

JUN 2015 – MAR 2018 · CARY, NC

  • Technical Audience Design: Led UX strategy across theDZone.com platform and AnswerHub SaaS product, translating complex technical specifications into intuitive, content-dense systems for developers.

  • Career Growth & Execution: Promoted from Graphic Designer to Lead UX/UI Designer, driving early research, interactive prototyping, and front-end development through a major site redesign.

Select Community Experience

​Freelance  Graphic Designer

2014 – 2020

Delivered brand strategy, UI assets, and print systems for corporate and non-profit clients.

​Boston Sings [BOSS]  A Cappella Festival  Website, Graphics & Social Coordinator

NOV 2016 – PRESENT (VOLUNTEER)

Direct digital branding, social campaigns, and website UX to drive festival attendance and ticket sales.

Pow! Arrangers  Music Director

NOV 2018 – PRESENT (VOLUNTEER)

Music director, arranger and singer of the Pow! Arrangers semi-pro a cappella group. Also manage web, social and branding needs.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION

NC State University
Bachelor of Graphic Design

MAY 2013

Introduction to Web Accessibility 
EdX Certification

NOV 2021

Unconscious Bias
LinkedIn Certification

AUG 2022

SEO
Hubspot Academy

AUG 2025

SKILLS

UX Design, UI Design, Visual Design, Branding, Accessibility, Information Architecture, Design Systems, AI Design, HTML/CSS, Responsive Web Design, Audio/Video Editing, Vocal Arranging, Social Media Management

PROCESS

Collaboration, Product Strategy, Design Governance, Wireframing, Interactive Prototyping, Research, User Research & Usability Testing, Cross-functional Leadership, Documentation, Project Management

TOOLS

Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, Canva, Jira, GitHub, Fullstory, Datadog, Google Analytics, Docs/Sheets/Slides, Wordpress

INTERESTS

Music, A Cappella, Crafts, Baking/Cooking, Crocheting, Weightlifting, Yoga, Video Games, Puzzles, Board Games, Anime

LANGUAGES

English (Fluent)

Farsi (Conversational)

French (Elementary)

Copyright © 2025 Yassee Mohebbi. All rights reserved.

Copyright © 2026 Yassee Mohebbi. All rights reserved.

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