Product design leader. 18+ years in fintech, crypto, and consumer products.
View selected work →18 years closing the gap between what a business needs and what actually gets built. Crypto. Super-apps. Neobanks. Travel. Regulated banking. Products millions of people depend on.
I started as a front-end engineer — I know what it costs to build what I design. I've built and scaled design teams at Metro Bank, Almosafer, and Careem. I've been the solo IC at midnight and the director in the room where strategy gets set. There's no part of this process I haven't owned.
Kraken · Neo-Banking · 0→1 Launch · 2025
Blank canvas to five-market launch. End-to-end product design for a global crypto neobank.
Careem (Uber) · Super App · Subscriptions · 2024
Data-led subscription system that turned a declining metric into a sustained growth engine.
Careem (Uber) · OpenAI · 2025
Rebuilt super-app search on OpenAI across 10+ markets and 4 languages.
Metro Bank · UK Retail Banking · AI · 2018
AI-powered financial insights that shifted customer behaviour at scale.
Few leaders inspire enough confidence to follow them from one company to another. Jay is incredible at making sense of business chaos for his design team.

Hakeeb Bashorun
Lead Product Designer · Careem & Almosafer
What sets Jay apart is his rare combination of creative vision and practical execution.

Sam Rapp
Sr. Director of Product Design · Careem
He is a role model for any design team, not only for his professional impact but for the way he leads with empathy and purpose.

Samantha Hamadeh
Product Marketing Manager · Careem
If you get the chance to work with him, take it. You won't just improve, you'll level up.

Khussan Djabbarov
Product Designer · Careem
I design what moves numbers in production. If it doesn't trace back to an outcome, it doesn't ship.
Most rework happens because someone skipped alignment. I make sure the room agrees on direction before anyone opens Figma.
Every design org I've built kept delivering after I left. I hire people with taste and judgment, then give them the context to own it.
Not a talking point. A genuine competitive edge. Faster exploration, better decisions, less wasted time. The judgment is mine. The speed is multiplied.
I started building websites at 15. Got a BSc in Product Design from Brunel, then an MBA with a focus on Digital Banking from Cranfield. Somewhere in between, I stopped being a designer who understood business and became a business leader who happens to think in systems, interfaces, and user behaviour.
I've written production code. I've run design teams of 25+. I've presented to exec boards and I've pushed pixels at 2am. Front-end engineer, IC designer, team lead, design director, co-founder. It's the reason I can walk into any room, at any altitude, and add value immediately.
AI is embedded across my entire workflow. The taste is mine. The throughput is multiplied.
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