Andrew Jones

Experienced Product Builder

Ten years shipping 0→1.
Three-time founding PM.

Product management experience spanning large enterprise to consumer startups, including five years working with ML/AI. I’ve shipped products used by millions of end users at some of the biggest companies. I’ve also designed and built several apps independently, three of which are currently live on app stores.

Work samples

NewsMap web app showing local news stories pinned to a map of San Francisco, color-coded by category
NEWSMAP

AI Content & Geolocation Pipeline

Local news and events are scattered across thousands of unstructured sources. How do you turn that into a reliable, geocoded feed without manual curation?

3
platforms shipped
100,000+
articles processed
2
paying data customers
Project Room sidebar and business model canvas whiteboard in Brightidea
BRIGHTIDEA

Project Room

Brightidea's innovation platform reaches millions of end users at customers like Nike, Amazon, and Merck, yet enterprise teams were sometimes managing complex ideas outside it. How do you close that gap without turning Brightidea into a project-management tool?

90%+
customer adoption
+6%
avg. session time
12 wks
build to GA
AiMi's generative music app open on a phone, showing element controls for harmony, bass, beats, melody, pads, and FX
AIMI

Generative AI Music Platform

Generative AI was barely known outside research labs in 2019, years before ChatGPT made the category mainstream. How do you turn an experimental ML system into a listening experience 600K+ people actually want?

100+
user interviews
600K+
app users
$20M
Series A raised
Rolodex pipeline view showing candidate and company search progress
THE COLE GROUP

Rolodex

The Cole Group places CMOs and CROs at companies like OpenAI, Stripe, Airbnb, and Figma, whose CEOs were slow to decide on a hire most only make once or twice. How do you build the confidence to move faster?

+16%
revenue
13%
faster searches
+25%
concurrent search capacity
Strings app roadmap for user objectives, mapping creator, curator, and consumer needs
STRINGS

UX Research & Roadmap

Strings had users, but the product tried to be a little bit for everyone. Which handful of use cases should the roadmap narrow in on first?

+14%
D7 retention
21
users tested

Personal projects: apps I’ve designed, built, and deployed

trybaselineapp.com landing page: 'We're going to help you focus' next to a phone showing the day timeline

Baseline

SwiftUI · iOS

Reset your dopamine baseline

An iOS app that restructures when you get stimulation, not just how much: a 30-day reset built on the neuroscience of dopamine timing, to help you focus without another screen-time app that just counts minutes.

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DishDecoder app camera screen prompting the user to take a photo of a dish to get its recipe

DishDecoder

SwiftUI · iOS

Photo in, recipe out

Take a photo of any dish, yours or a restaurant's, and get back a complete recipe in seconds: ingredients, steps, cooking time, difficulty, and nutrition, powered by AI.

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See Around Me app screens shown at an angle, after the usability-driven redesign

See Around Me

Mobile app

Hyperlocal discovery, rebuilt around real research

A hyperlocal discovery app I built to learn product design from the ground up, then rebuilt around usability testing and real user research. No longer live, but the project this site's own design section (and a lot of my product instincts) grew out of.

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Stainless Steel Pan Comparison site showing a sortable, filterable table of pans with price, ply, material, and reviews

Stainless Pan Comparison

Next.js

A sortable table for an annoying research problem

Stainless steel pan reviews online are scattered and subjective, so I built a simple sortable, filterable comparison table across brand, price, ply, material, and reviews. Small and a bit silly, but one of the first things I shipped with AI doing most of the coding.

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Design explorations →

Personal UX explorations and research.

HEARD's existing web app home feed, showing school groups and posts

HEARD

Fawn app screen showing a local merchant's product listing

Fawn

Before-and-after comparison of Zillow's filtering UI following the usability-tested redesign

Zillow Usability Testing and Redesign

Swell Investing's app welcome screen

Swell Investing