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Jade Gray

Design & Product Lead

ex-Airbnb,  

ex-IDEO.org 

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Jade Gray

My passion lies in innovation strategy – painting the big picture through blending business, research, and design – in service of human connection.

Jade’s expertise

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Skills
Design Strategy
Product Design
Creative Direction
Business Strategy
Design Research
Expertise
Strategy & Business Design
UX/UI/IxD
Product Management
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PASSIONS

Areas I'm passionate about

As creative leaders with a shared commitment to quality, collaboration, and creativity, we're proud to pursue out most meaningful work and deliver the best every time.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.” ― James Baldwin

Portfolio

Innovation Consulting

Design & Product Strategy / Advising / Research / Innovation / Sensemaking I enjoy the beginning of anything; the first seeds of a business, idea, a prototype, or a vision.

Design Research
Business Innovation
Experience Design
Concept Development
Creative Strategy
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Work in Focus

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Traveling for Work on Airbnb
Consulting & Advising
Airbnb

Traveling for Work on Airbnb

Product Innovation
Strategy
Design Research
Experience Design
Branding & Identity
Business travel had never been Airbnb's bread and butter but represented a huge organic opportunity for professionals to use our platform. Creating a product-led vision to tap into this organic demand was created via a beautiful mix of long-term UX research. market data, prototypes, and 0-1 launches
Scaling SkillUp
Consulting & Advising
SkillUp

Scaling SkillUp

💰Income Inequality
Design Management
+4 more
I partnered with this beautiful organization to launch UX research, prototypes, marketing experiments, content explorations, and usability tests in service of a deeper product strategy, resulting in improved comprehension and localized impact.
Fentanyl Prevention in California
Consulting & Advising
Colab

Fentanyl Prevention in California

Design Research
Design Management
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I partnered with DDB and Colab on an important, urgent investigation into youth fentanyl exposure and drug poisoning. I led the qualitative research strategy, interviews, synthesis, and storytelling related to communities impacted by this heartbreaking epidemic.

Values & Ethos

Neol is changing the game through empowering creative leaders and developing new talent models at scale. We have all the right ingredients: deep & diverse experience, global presence, and creatives working outside of corporate structures.

Jade Gray
Jade Gray
Design & Product Lead