Jonathan Tollefson
User Experience Architect
jtollefson123@gmail.com (614) 403-4845 linkedin.com/in/jtollefson123 Minneapolis, MN
SUMMARY
Senior designer working the seam between research, interaction, and front-end. Builds design systems engineers adopt, user flows that complete, and stakeholder documentation that holds up under pressure. Six-plus years across enterprise AI and BI products, B2B SaaS AI tooling, and a bilingual mobile banking launch.
EXPERIENCE
CHS Inc.
August 2023 – PresentBusiness Analyst, AI & BI Engineering
- Led UX discovery and interaction design for enterprise AI and BI products, embedded with engineering on consumer agri-tech interfaces and internal AI tooling.
- Designed a FigJam-based documentation and alignment system adopted as the cross-team default across product, engineering, and business.
- Translated dbt model dependencies into consumable documentation by building a Python tool that parses the dbt API manifest into Excel, Power BI, and stakeholder briefs, serving business users, engineers, and the internal AI team.
- Partnered with engineers on prioritization, scope, and feasibility. Owned the visual layer of every stakeholder conversation.
Raylu, Inc.
April – October 2023Product Designer (Freelance)
- Designed the visual identity, component set, and clickable Figma prototypes for a B2B SaaS AI chat platform.
- Owned end-to-end interface design, motion specs, and interaction behaviors. Patterns mapped 1:1 to the React implementation.
- Ran the agile product roadmap in Jira for a distributed team shipping prototype releases on a tight cycle.
Crediverso
February 2021 – January 2023UX Design Lead
- Designed primitives, interaction patterns, and iOS App Store onboarding for the bilingual mobile banking V1.
- Usability testing with 50+ participants reduced primary-flow bounce rate by 15%.
- Designed and ran the pre-launch growth program. Organic campaigns grew the channel 125% (700 to 2,100 followers) through A/B-tested messaging.
EDUCATION
Harvard University — Cambridge, MA
2015 – 2022B.A. Sociology · Minors in Marketing & Creative Design
Dean's List (6×), Rosenkrantz Discovery Grant Recipient
University of Minnesota — Minneapolis, MN
2016 – 2018Product Design, Business Marketing Education
TOOLS
- Design
- Figma, FigJam, Adobe Creative Suite, Procreate, Framer, Webflow
- Front-end
- React, HTML, CSS
- Data & AI
- SQL, Snowflake, dbt, Alation, Power BI, ChatGPT
- Research & Analytics
- Maze, Mixpanel, Google Analytics, Qualtrics
- Workflow
- Jira, Notion, Azure DevOps
OUTSIDE
Substack at Diary of a Soundbender — essays on sound design and product design. Track and Field record holder at the University of Minnesota (sprints, hurdles).