Claire Rowlett Portrait

Hi! I’m Claire Rowlett (roh-let). I thrive on transforming complex problems into simple, intuitive, and delightful user experiences.

With 18 years of experience as a product strategist and creative designer, I excel in collaborating with cross-functional teams to validate ideas, conduct research, design and test products, and work with engineering to launch successful products.

Currently a senior manager at Capital One’s The Lab, I support the team’s design practice through education, sharing, and critiques. I work on cross-functional teams focusing on projects developing innovative features at the intersection of emerging technology and finance, enhancing customer experiences, and advancing Capital One’s position in the industry.

My expertise spans Fortune 100 companies, health systems, and consultancies across finance, healthcare, food, and nonprofit sectors.

In a previous life, I was a brand and print designer, always up for discussing print processes or favorite logos and brand strategies!

Outside of work, I connect with the human experience through storytelling podcasts, street photography, travel, and exploring culinary delights in different cities. I also indulge in creative activities like hand lettering, jewelry making, and acrylic painting.


Professional Experience

Generate and evaluate new ideas, conduct research, build and validate low- and high-fidelity prototypes.

Drive Design and Research scope for The Lab projects to define the true problem and right opportunity.

Lead the design storytelling to bring ideas to life and share them with stakeholders and leadership VP+.

Build and lead through career development by mentoring, coaching, and elevating team members.

Guide project strategy, research, alignment, and analysis.

Lead work sessions for user-testing, UX research, design sprints, assumption prioritization, prototyping, and roadmapping.

Attend quarterly hackathons to ideate, create, and build products in 3 days.

Senior Manager, Product Design
Capital One | The Lab
January 2022 – Present

Led all product design work for the SaaS privacy platform.

Revolutionized and decreased design time by implementing a scalable design system.

Collaborated with CEO to support product planning and roadmap development.   

Department Lead, UX Design
TerraTrue
July 2021 – January 2022

Design manager for the UX team supporting the Nonprofit Cloud.

Led design strategy and planning for the Elevate payments platform to increase revenue and conversion for nonprofits.

Led the redesign of the onboarding process for the Nonprofit Cloud portfolio to increase ease-of-use and reduce friction during the setup process leading to increased adoption.

Conducted user interviews to define and map the end-to-end donation process of the product portfolio to identify experience gaps and provide strategic recommendations to the leadership team.

Redesigned the management of recurring donations in the Nonprofit Success Pack to enable users to better manage and forecast revenue for their organization.

Senior Manager, UX Design
Salesforce.org
March 2019 – July 2021

Conducted ethnographic field research and synthesis to validate the problem space for a new product.

Partnered with stakeholders from product management, development, and user research to create the personas, user journeys, flows, site maps, and visual design.

Principal Product Designer — Focus Platform
Capital One 
Aug 2017 – March 2019

Worked with product teams to interpret requirements of the business into user‑friendly and creative designs using Google’s Material Design for Capital One’s award-winning Android App.

Principal Product Designer — Android 
Capital One 
Nov 2015 – Aug 2017

Worked end-to-end on user experience and visual design for multiple enterprise apps in the healthcare industry

User Experience and Visual Designer
Advisory Board
Sept 2013 – Nov 2015

Strategic Design Specialist
Advisory Board 
June 2012 – Sept 2013

Senior Graphic Designer
Advisory Board 
July 2010 – June 2012

Mid-level Graphic Designer
Fifteen Design 
August 2006 – April 2009


Honors and Awards

2018, Highest Customer Satisfaction—Mobile Banking App, Capital One • JD Power

2017, Highest Customer Satisfaction—Mobile Banking App, Capital One • JD Power

2017, Heroes of Accessibility—Institutional Achievement, Capital One • Knowability.org 

2016, Gold Mobile Apps/Sites-Finance, Capital One Android App, Capital One • W3 Awards

2016, Silver Mobile Apps/Sites-Finance, Capital One Android App, Capital One • W3 Awards

2015, Product Development Force of Insight—Winner, Advisory Board

2014, Firm-Wide Innovation Challenge—Finalist, Advisory Board

2013, American Inhouse Award - Firm Branding and Visual Style Guide, Advisory Board • Graphic Design USA


Nottingham Trent University
BA (Hons)
2005

Education

Capital One Product Manager Machine Learning Certification Program
UC Berkeley Executive Education
May 2024

Salesforce User Experience Designer
Salesforce
Jun 2021

Leading for Creativity
IDEO U
Apr 2021

Cultivating Creative Collaboration
IDEO U
September 2020


SHINE Mentor
AIGA Design DC
2024, 2023, 2020

Volunteer

UX Designer
Zero Emissions World
2021

Community Impact Lead
Advisory Board Company
2012–2013