About
Product Design Leader with 18+ years of experience building high-performing design teams and delivering impactful, human-centered experiences. Proven expertise in scaling teams, defining product vision, and solving complex problems with system-thinking approaches. Passionate about fostering inclusive environments and driving innovation at scale.
Work Experience
Building and scaling a product design team while leading the development of Commons, a platform serving 100K+ Medicaid members and care teams across seven markets. Advocating for accessible and inclusive design practices, resulting in enhanced member engagement and care delivery.
Guided the design of Scite’s flagship platform and AI chatbot Assistant, used by millions of researchers to validate scientific claims. Played a key role in growing ARR from $300K to $3.5M in 8 months, leading to the platform's acquisition.
Built and scaled Compass's search and data tools platform from 0 to 280M homes, supporting 28,000 agents. Established the Compass Design System and grew the design team from 1 to 20, contributing to Compass’s growth from $25M to $6B.
Led the development of Authorea’s editing platform, used by over 250K researchers to create and publish research. Introduced lean UX methodologies to streamline development and improve user experiences.
Directed UX and product design initiatives, managing a team of 8 designers. Designed and launched Canyons, a multi-utility portal with a companion geolocation-enabled iOS app.
Writing
“scite: A smart citation index that displays the context of citations and classifies their intent using deep learning”, published in Quantitative Science Studies, MIT Press Direct. November 05, 2021 Josh M. Nicholson, Milo Mordaunt, Patrice Lopez, Ashish Uppala, Domenic Rosati, Peter Grabitz, Sean C. Rife, Neves Rodrigues
“scite: a deep learning platform to evaluate the veracity of scientific claims by citation analysis.” This research was also
presented as a poster at 2019 Metascience Symposium, Stanford University by Yuri Lazebnik as part of the team.
“Towards a Visualization for Possible Realization of a Gupta period temple at Bhitari”, Annual Meeting of the Indian Archaeological Society, Bangalore. December 15-18, 2005 Vidula Jayaswal, Neves Rodrigues and Amitabha Mukerjee.