Jacob Rex

About Jacob Rex

Designer & Design Systems Leader with 10+ years of experience designing at scale. I specialize in building design systems, products, and component architectures that power fast-moving teams and high-impact products. My work has reached 50M+ users and supported $360M+ in acquisitions.

Experience

1. Designer

   Tribe Chat

   Jan 2026 — Present

   Owned product design execution from concept to production, translating CEO ideas into clear, usable mobile experiences• Redesigned notification onboarding experience which increased opt-in rate from about 15% to ~50%, turning a major drop-off point into a key driver of activation and sustained usage• Designed high-quality mobile UI/UX in Figma, defining user flows, wireframes, and polished interfaces• Built and maintained a scalable design system (components, variants, tokens) for consistency and speed• Rapidly shipped and iterated using user feedback loops, validating and refining features post-launch• Partnered closely with engineering for clean handoff and pixel-accurate implementation, including motion prototypes in JitterJoin my tribes at tribechat.com/rex

Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  B.A., Astrophysics

  2005 — 2010

Skills

• Wordpress
• Client Relations
• Graphic Design
• Sketch
• Html5
• Email Marketing
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Framer
• Sass
• Jquery
• Web Development
• Php
• User Experience Testing
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Communication
• Photoshop
• Social Media
• Dreamweaver
• Illustrator
• Team Leadership
• Web Design
• Css
• Front-End
• Vue
• Coffeescript
• Html
• Adobe Illustrator