Tommy Roberts
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Tommy Roberts

Staff product designer in London, He/Him

Back on the market for freelance and contract opportunities with a new domain - tommy.cv

25 days ago

About

I got my start early designing forum signatures and layouts for livestreamers, I carved a completely self-taught path into tech, now I'm working as a Staff Product Designer at Flick.

Projects

2024

Updating my portfolio to accommodate my shift from full-time work to permanent freelance.

Contact

Twitter

Work Experience

2019 — Now
Remote, London
  • Hired two permanent designers for Sourcegraph, now valued at $2.67B following a $125M Series D.

  • Conducted a product-wide heuristic evaluation of Flyt, contributing to a strategic partnership with SSE.

  • Led the design of diverse products across entertainment, video game, developer, education, and financial sectors.

2023 — Now
Remote, London
  • Spearheaded end-to-end design of multiple features, impacting 25K+ paying customers.

  • Pivotal role in a four-phase product roadmap, successfully transitioning the core value proposition to AI, resulting in 57% trials being AI-driven.

  • Led qualitative research initiatives, aligning with the founder team to drive key insights leading to thousands of paying WAU on AI-driven features.

2022 — 2023
Remote
  • Revitalised and streamlined critical project, ensuring FDA and EU MDR SaMD regulations, releasing to thousands of US and EU patients.

  • Led redesign on clinician facing logging portal, enhancing 24/7 care experience.

  • Initiated adoption of design system, now used by entire design team and being adopted by entire engineering team.

2022 — 2022
Remote
  • Led the redesign of the platform, resulting in a 100% user growth over one year, reaching 6K paying users.

  • Contributed to the platform’s recognition with the Excellence in Litigation & Data Science award in 2024.

2021 — 2022
London
  • Led prominence banner CMS design, enabling 100% of business partners (EE, O2, Vodafone, etc.) to maximise site-wide earning potential.

  • Embedded into the newly critical Mobiles Squad, serving hundreds of thousands of customers annually.

  • Conducted over 20 hours of remote usability testing and user interviews, informing critical design decisions.

  • Defined and led the mobiles personalisation design strategy, predicting uplift in C2S, equating to considerable revenue bump.

2021 — 2021
Remote
  • Delivered 0 to 1 design of 'The Book', recruitment platform for Chapter2.

  • Led the design of a parking lot management SaaS used by thousands of NHS staff.

Writing

2022

Taking a look at NPC interactions in Alba for my homework during the 'Computing for Designers' workshop

2022

Virtual reality can offer a vibrant and fun environment to spend time in, when the places and experiences are led by people — not big tech