Summary
Jules Forrest is a product design leader with 11 years of experience, currently Director II of Product Design at Credit Karma where they’ve grown from senior designer to lead multiple design systems and recommendations teams. They specialize in building and scaling design systems—having led Credit Karma’s design system initiative and now overseeing its broader product design strategy. Jules combines hands-on front-end development experience from roles at Chain, Medium, and Optimizely with strategic leadership, enabling pragmatic design decisions that ship. They founded Women Who Design, a data-driven directory that highlights underrepresented voices in design, reflecting a commitment to community and discovery beyond corporate work. Based in New York, Jules blends technical fluency and people management to operationalize design at scale while maintaining attention to accessible, component-driven interfaces.
11 years of coding experience