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Jelena Ciaralli

Jacksonville,FL

Summary

A problem-solving creative leader with over ten years of experience who inspires large teams, streamlines operations, and boosts performance while winning over clients. I want to work with a group passionate about creating digital solutions that improve user experience, resolve real problems, and help businesses grow.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

PRODUCT OWNER

ENSPIRE FOR ENTERPRISE
01.2003 - 02.2020
  • Researched user behaviors using Pendo.io and led strategic product roadmap discussions with cross-functional leaders and executives to create the company's roadmap for the year
  • Gathered business requirements, wrote EPICs and User Stories in JIRA, and prioritized workloads for 3 Engineering teams using agile methodology
  • Led a team of software engineers that built a proprietary CRM system for thousands of franchise clients, optimizing our budget by cutting the cost of a CRM license and saving the company over $60,000 a year
  • Designed an SEO tasking tool to streamline repetitive work and cut production time by 20%
  • This tool functioned as a data source that fed into our client dashboard, which quantified the digital services we offered and proved its value
  • Collaborated with sales, digital marketing, and client service departments to identify areas that needed more reporting data in our dashboards
  • Planned, designed, and coordinated with the software team to integrate reporting and functionality on advertising performance for Google ads, Facebook ads, and call leads
  • Created and maintained a place on Confluence to house all product documentation
  • This included product information, releases, and how-to guides for all our digital products, including dashboards, CRMs, and email marketing.

MANAGER OF DESIGN

03.2016 - 03.2019
  • Led the design division with over 60 designers from numerous countries (including India, the Philippines, Canada, and the USA)
  • My team exceeded all KPIs, including raising and keeping customer satisfaction levels above 90%, lowering and maintaining the site turnaround time to a maximum of 2 days, and ensuring internal website quality levels stayed above 95%
  • Developed our style guide and implemented website standards updates to routinely offer our clients cutting-edge web designs and trends
  • Collaborated closely with our technology department to create innovative repositories of ADA-compliant and responsive layout designs that the design team could use to rapidly deliver sleek website designs in a fast-paced environment
  • Hosted highly successful customer satisfaction meetings with the design team to review client feedback data using Excel and PowerBI
  • Brainstormed new ideas with the team, motivating them to own and improve this score to over 90%.

PROJECT MANAGER

ENSPIRE FOR ENTERPRISE
01.2002 - 03.2019
  • Onboarded 100+ franchise locations to our website products and digital marketing services by working with their corporate CMOs, setting timelines and pricing schedules, and then working with internal teams to implement services using Monday.com
  • Successfully executed customer touchpoints and exceeded the expectations set by our location owners, all within the designated timeline, onboarding 95% of the locations on schedule
  • Managed UHS's website redesign project and marketing onboarding by conducting design interviews with each behavioral health location
  • Presented project plans to affirm design and marketing proposals with over a hundred clients and managed the execution within six months using Smartsheets
  • Fostered an excellent working relationship with our high-touch clients to ensure they received the best possible customer service
  • Through collaboration, attention to detail, and organization, we maintained positive customer interactions and satisfied our clients.

SUPERVISOR OF DESIGN SERVICES

WEB
03.2013 - 03.2016
  • Coached and supported a team of 18 designers to meet and exceed quality and production standards
  • Delegated special assignments and projects to team members
  • Managed daily production, quality, and customer satisfaction scores
  • Trained new hires on proper style guide standards, design principles, and other design-related training materials.

Education

Certified Associate of Project Management (CAPM) -

ART INSTITUTE OF JACKSONVILLE
Jacksonville, FL
2019

Associate of Arts - Web Design & Interactive Media

Art Institute of Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL
05.2011

Skills

  • Technical Proficiencies
  • Atlassian Software (Jira, Confluence, Trello)
  • Adobe Software (Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, InDesign)
  • Project Management (Basecamp, Smartsheets, Mondaycom, Trello)
  • Product Ownership (Pendoio, Drawio, Lucidchart)
  • Design, UX, UI Collaboration (InVision)
  • MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook)
  • CORE COMPETENCIES
  • LEADERSHIP
  • Public-Speaking and Training
  • Team Building, Hiring, and Onboarding
  • Mentoring and Team Motivation
  • Local, Remote, Offshore, and Vendor Management
  • Driving Quality and Production Metrics
  • Strategy and Strategic Acting
  • WEB DESIGN AND INTERACTIVE MEDIA
  • Reviewing and Implementing Web Design Trends and Maintaining Style Guide
  • Responsive Design, SEO Optimization, and ADA Compliance
  • Graphic Design and Social Media Marketing
  • UX and UI Research and Direction
  • Composition, Color Theory, Typography, Visual Design Principles
  • PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
  • Roadmapping Based on Business Goals
  • Usability and A/B Testing, Surveys
  • Developing Documentation and User Guides
  • Product Adoption Lifecycle
  • Complex Software Implementation and SaaS
  • PROJECT MANAGEMENT
  • Confirming Acceptance Criteria
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Evaluating Project Progress and Prioritizing Needs
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Digital Marketing

Accomplishments

  • As the company acquired new businesses, our franchise marketing teams merged into one unit
  • We had a very disjointed operation, lost knowledge via natural attrition, and our playbook suffered
  • I documented every step of our digital marketing service onboarding process through cross-functional collaboration and added it to a repository for future use
  • This streamlined our franchise digital marketing project management process
  • These processes included all our services, from website design sales, onboarding, planning, and execution, and marketing services like Facebook ads, paid ads, etc
  • This provided touchpoints and maintenance schedule templates that allowed new project management team members to adhere to a proven workflow to speed up our onboarding process
  • CULTURE COMMITTEE
  • As one of the founding members of Enspire for Enterprise’s Culture Committee, I helped establish our new company culture
  • I created a Sharepoint where fun company announcements and upcoming events were posted
  • I ran fundraisers for charities that matched our values and planned drives to achieve our donation goals
  • I connected with charities to collect marketing materials and bring events to fruition
  • I hosted a company book club to drive engagement and thought leadership
  • Additionally, for the software team (which had remote members), I ran fun work events like Bingo, Jeopardy, and more to keep employees engaged and morale high
  • SEO PRODUCT IMPLEMENTATION
  • I consulted with our SEO team to identify how software or technology could automate and streamline their manual, labor-intensive job procedures
  • I identified areas where similar work was being done three times in several different systems to create a work order, produce a client report, and input data to quantify and show value for their services on a dashboard
  • We designed and developed an interface that allowed SEO work to be done quickly with selections for repetitive/frequent tasks
  • This data was then used to create a report for the client and promptly display the services we provided on the client dashboard.

Certification

Certified Associate of Project Management (CAPM)

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Croatian
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

MANAGER OF DESIGN

03.2016 - 03.2019

SUPERVISOR OF DESIGN SERVICES

WEB
03.2013 - 03.2016

PRODUCT OWNER

ENSPIRE FOR ENTERPRISE
01.2003 - 02.2020

PROJECT MANAGER

ENSPIRE FOR ENTERPRISE
01.2002 - 03.2019

Certified Associate of Project Management (CAPM) -

ART INSTITUTE OF JACKSONVILLE

Associate of Arts - Web Design & Interactive Media

Art Institute of Jacksonville
Jelena Ciaralli