Jeff French
Product Design Lead · Bay Area
Designing clarity into complex products .
15+ years designing web apps from early-stage startups to enterprise scale. I simplify complex tools with systems thinking, scrappy experimentation, and creative collaboration.
- 0→1 products
- Enterprise UX
- Considered complexity
- Data-informed growth
- Collaborative leadership
Selected experience
Oracle
Principal UX DesignerCurrent
2024–Present- Redesigning Oracle's enterprise workforce management suite — modernizing legacy scheduling and time-tracking workflows into clearer, considered experiences.
- Rebuilt core configuration flows (worker time profiles, workday definitions, shift swaps) and mentored a summer intern along the way.
Dropbox
Product Design Manager
2022–2023- Grew the DocSend design team from 2 to 4 designers, each leading a different workstream in the post-acquisition integration effort.
- Modeled Dropbox's core sharing funnel to make the case for deeper DocSend integration — winning CEO and leadership buy-in for the direction.
Senior Product Designer
2019–2022- Owned HelloWorks (later Dropbox Forms) end-to-end — strategy, research, and design — through fast experimentation cycles over three years.
- Grew ARR from $200K to $1.5M+ and improved ROAS 10× within two years.
HelloSign
Senior Product Designer
2017–2019- Joined as HelloSign's first full-time product designer; built the HelloWorks form-builder and customer portal end-to-end as the product's sole designer.
- Established the design system and component library used across HelloSign and HelloWorks.
Earlier
WellnessFX · First Designer · 2011–2017
Change.org · Web Designer · 2009–2011
On the side
Connections Canvas
A visual canvas companion app for solving the daily NYT Connections puzzle.
Figma plugins
A handful of simple utilities, some of them in daily use by other designers on Oracle's HCM team.
A typeface
Created from scratch, mostly to find out how hard it actually is. It's hard.