Jake Maisel · Senior Product Designer
Complex workflows, made trustworthy.
I turn complex, high-stakes processes—trade-ins, pricing, auctions—into products dealers rely on.
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Problems worth solving.
How I frame problems, research them, and lead teams to ship.
Guaranteed Sale
A guaranteed payout for dealers, with all the upside kept. I led design and research end to end: 10× growth in under a year, pricing in minutes instead of days, and in 2026, ACV Offers, a guarantee before the car is even inspected.
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ClearCar
An AI-powered trade-in platform: a 60-second offer for consumers, and the tools dealers use to turn that offer into a car. I was the lead designer for three years and designed nearly every part of it.
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MAX + ClearCar: One Platform
ACV ran two appraisal products with two teams doing the same job. As lead researcher and designer, I proved 80% of them overlapped, defined the 20% worth keeping, designed one appraisal experience inside ACV MAX, and won unanimous executive approval. Phase one launched in June 2026.
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