Elias Ochako
Senior Product Designer
😊Hi there! Glad you found your way here. I'm currently looking for new design opportunities where I can put my skills to good use. Take your time exploring my work, and when you're ready, I'm just an email away.
About
I am a Senior Product Designer with 3+ years of experience scaling design solutions for fast-paced startups. I specialize in user-centered design, creating intuitive interfaces through rigorous research, prototyping, and usability testing.
Currently leading end-to-end product design remotely for a Boston-based CE Management startup, where I've championed user-centered design principles, developed comprehensive design systems, and improved key metrics including a 45% increase in user engagement.
My unique background bridges product design with direct customer insights, enabling me to rapidly identify user pain points and translate them into impactful solutions. I excel in remote-first environments, having successfully collaborated with distributed teams across multiple time zones.
My design philosophy emphasizes solving real user problems while driving business growth. I'm passionate about creating elegant solutions to complex challenges through collaborative processes.
I'm seeking remote opportunities with forward-thinking startups or scale-ups in Europe or North America where I can leverage my comprehensive product design and operational experience. Particularly interested in companies that value diverse perspectives and creative problem-solving.
Let's connect to discuss how my approach to product design could benefit your team and users.
Work Experience
ACEA
Senior Product Designer
ACEA
Product Designer
Projects
CE App
CE App is a leading platform for tracking continuing education and ensuring compliance reporting. To effectively onboard new customers, it is crucial to provide a seamless sign-up and sign-in process.
In this project, the task was to re-design the sign-in & sign-up experience so that it's seamless and allows potential customers to quickly get to the value of the product without encountering obstacles.
Redesigning the Onboarding Experience
Side Projects
Preparer Payout
Preparer payout is a tax software for tax preparers. The application is equipped with exceptional features for tax filing and helps you to easily calculate your preparer payouts.
The client (Clear Sky Local) tasked us to design and develop this product from start to finish with the aim of making it user-friendly as possible.
The client had already done some research on this product and had an outline and a vision of how they wanted to see their product look and feel.
Designing a tax preparation software - preparer payouts
Education
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
BSC. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Certifications
Google UX Design Certification
Coursera