by CAPRA J'NEVA
PRODUCT, INSPIRED
Are you ready for the now?
If you don't want to burn tokens at random, you need a product designer who understands your customer's deeper, unspoken need.
I have a unique ability to imagine a world where everyone can thrive. Absorb an industry & its workflows and articulate that core, burning need. As a pattern finder and technology enthusiast, I am always scanning the horizon for the possible. I marry these two worlds into products and innovations. And I do it in a way that unites and inspires people in fruitful collaborations.
In the last 2 years - design has changed - I can help your organization adopt an AI pipeline to refine concepts, deliver iteratively and quickly to the code base, testing rapidly along the way. Because design should be about impact, not just delivery.
“Every organization has people who generate ideas. Far fewer have people who can recognize the difference between an interesting idea and a useful one. Capra is one of those people.”
Pooja Vijay Kumar, Senior Manager, Content Design, Autodesk
MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY
How do I build high-performing teams?
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Build on strengths
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Teach & reinforce experimentation skills
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Impact storytelling
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Prioritize & automate
I spent 10 years at Autodesk as a manager. I bring the same philosophy of mentorship and collaboration to my individual contributor work. As a senior member of any team, I strive for everyone to succeed.
For Autodesk's platform, I created a high-performing, diverse team of 42 designers, content designers and researchers in a 3 year period with <10% turnover during a period of >33% turnover in the tech industry. Built the team from 9 designers to 42 designers in under 3 years, while my department was headcount flat, by convincing engineering leadership of the value of design and gaining backfills when there was engineering attrition.
I went on to help a team of research intern-conversions reach their full potential. In two and a half years, the team went from frustrated and unheard, to key contributors to Autodesk's platform strategy with monthly VP-level meetings. We automated systems, made every team member indispensable to their product manager, contributed to company-wide programs and created a stable of 20% of our customers available to test and give feedback to us.
WHY WORK WITH ME
Bring new eyes to your industry
Regardless of the industry, I'll strive to become an expert, but the kind of expert who always listens sideways and questions the way things have always been done - the foundation of innovation.
I'll help streamline processes and maximize outcomes, because that's just how I work.
My Portfolio in Numbers
50+
CLIENT PROJECTS
8+
DESIGN AWARDS WON
37M$+
INVESTMENT RAISED
30
YEARS
EXPERIENCE