Role

Role

Lead Product Designer

Team

Team

Senior Leadership, PMs, Engineering, Data Science

Industry

Industry

Fintech

Year

Year

2024-2025

Skills

Dashboard, Data Visualization, Web

Problem & Concept

Problem Property managers are central to Esusu's growth, yet had no visibility into the impact of rent reporting across their properties.

Solution We designed a real-time dashboard that transformed data into actionable insight. This gave property managers a clear, portfolio-wide view of their renters' credit outcomes.

Impact The dashboard replaced an unsustainable manual support process with a self-serve experience built to scale.

64%

Decrease in Portfolio Insight Requests to Support

80%

Adoption from Property Managers

5+

New Metrics Offered

My Role

  • Owned end-to-end design for the embedded rent reporting experience spanning discovery, user research, wireframing, prototyping, visual design, and QA

  • Led cross-functional collaboration with product team and presented prototypes, research findings, and progress updates directly to senior leadership

  • Partnered with data science and engineering to design around technical complexities, understand limitations, and QA user experience

Challenges & Pivots

Shifting Feature Priorities:

  • During user interviews we discovered property managers weren't just viewing the data, they were building ESG funding decks with it. I worked with product and engineering to make the case for adding a presentation slide download to our v1 scope, successfully getting it prioritized over originally planned features. It shipped in v1 and became one of the most positively received features post-launch.

Team Changes:

  • This project shifted between the company's #1 and #2 priority mid-build pulling developers onto other teams and compressing our timeline. I leaned on my background as a Scrum Master to triage with product and engineering, identifying which design updates were critical to ship and which could move to later sprints.

My Role

  • Owned end-to-end design for the embedded rent reporting experience spanning discovery, user research, wireframing, prototyping, visual design, and QA

  • Led cross-functional collaboration with product team and presented design concepts, research findings, and progress updates directly to senior leadership

  • Partnered with data science and engineering to design and validate the technical complexities of the experience, ensuring design intent was preserved through development handoff

Impact

Business & Operational

  • Reduced customer support calls by 64% by replacing a manual reporting process with a self-serve dashboard built to scale

  • Drove 80% adoption among property managers, validating the dashboard as a critical part of Esusu's property manager experience

Product & Design

  • Surfaced 5+ new metrics, giving property managers portfolio-wide visibility into rent reporting impact for the first time

  • Transformed data into a downloadable, presentation-ready format enabling property managers to bring renter impact directly to stakeholder and investor meetings

User & Mission

  • Enabled property managers to report measurable social impact to investors, strengthening Esusu's position as an ESG-aligned platform

  • Turned an invisible impact story into a shareable, data-backed narrative built for boardrooms and ESG presentations

“ Our calls have decreased significantly since the property dashboard launched. This is freeing up time to answer other support issues.”

Customer Support Team

Esusu Internal User Interviews

Conclusion

This dashboard created a new way for property managers to understand, communicate, and act on their social impact.

With 80% adoption, a 64% reduction in support calls, and brand new metrics offered, the design validated itself through measurable outcomes.

By transforming complex rent reporting data into a presentation-ready format, we gave property managers a tool that created clear social impact and relieved pressure on our internal teams.

Let's build something!

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Contact

jesnavargh@gmail.com