Wes Cooper

Wes Cooper

Product Design Manager in Canada, He/Him

About

East Coast Canadian started coding and is now designing tiny internet shapes.

Projects

2024
Home Redesign
2023
Industry Personalized Content
2022
Signup Experience
2019
Freemium at Jobber

Through three major iterations, my first focus and project once joining Jobber was discovering a successful Freemium entry model for their business. Myself and our growth team (1 PM, 2 engineers) created the foundation for our free plan, and through rapid experimentation discovered the best access model of features to provide for free, while developing our product-led expansion components to introduce, educate, and guide users through conversion once they were successfully running their business.

2018
Design System Evolution at HeyOrca

From January to May of 2018 myself along with three engineers developed social media management platform HeyOrcas first design system. Moving slowly through project development due to not leveraging a consistent system, their interface was jarring and every experience required learning and discovery since there were no common patterns. Following an atomic model, starting with the smallest stylistic tokens, and building up through components, modules, and surfaces, within four months we have the foundation of HeyOrcas new product personality and an easy to use system for engineering.

Side Projects

2020

Created a free-to-use URL shortener. Was a simple project to test my understanding of client-server communication and fetching at speed. It currently helps over 2,000 links per month from clogging conversations and emails.

2018
Juke

Myself (design) and colleague Adam (engineer) began design and development of Juke as a way to quickly create collaborative music playlists for office music, locker-rooms, parties, or road trips. This was a challenge for ourselves to learn how to craft a larger scale social platform and experience. While we never moved out of Beta, the functionality was great. 2-years later and Spotify launched their collaborative playlist functionality validating our initial hypothesis and solutions.

Work Experience

2021 — Now
Design Manager at Jobber
St.John's, Canada
2019 — 2021
Sr. Product Designer at Jobber
Toronto, Canada
2016 — 2019
Product Designer at HeyOrca
St.John's, Canada
2015 — 2016
Integrations Dev at Verafin
St.John's, Canada
2013 — 2015
Developer (Student Co-Op) at Verafin
St.John's

Education

2013 — 2015
Software Development at College of the North Atlantic
St. John's, NL

Certifications

2015
Leadership & Presentation from Dale Carnegie