Meet The Women Leading Tech: 86 400 Design Lead Jessa Jakovljevic

Meet The Women Leading Tech: 86 400 Design Lead Jessa Jakovljevic

In her role as a Design Lead at Australia’s first smartbank, 86 400, Jessa Jakovljevic works to create a customer experience that helps Australians take control of their money.  

Jessa and her team design the end-to-end customer experience for all the digital and non-digital touchpoints at 86 400. In the ten months since 86 400 launched, their products have quickly gained a reputation for their beautiful, elegant and simple user experiences.    

86 400 offers an innovative and trustworthy experience to their customers, which is crucial to the success and growth of the business. But when the experience and visual style wasn’t hitting the mark, and the launch was six months away, the success of the launch of Australia’s first smartbank was at risk. Jessa was crucial in influencing 86 400 to pivot to ensure they were offering their customers the right experiences to help remove the stress and anxiety that comes from managing your finances.   

Now, she works hard to forge a customer-centric design culture within the bank, which sees relevant frameworks embedded within the product and marketing lifecycles.  

Outside of her day job, Jessa is a keen contributor to the design community. She enthusiastically shares her learnings and journey with her peers in design and technology through various talks including at General Assembly and Pausefest, and through mentoring designers on ‘How to start in the industry?’ and ‘How to ace a design interview?’.  

Are you enjoying our Women Leading Tech profiles? Go back through our website to check out our other finalists or click here to find out more about the event.




Please login with linkedin to comment

women leading tech

Latest News

Sydney Comedy Festival: Taking The City & Social Media By Storm
  • Media

Sydney Comedy Festival: Taking The City & Social Media By Storm

Sydney Comedy Festival 2024 is live and ready to rumble, showing the best of international and homegrown talent at a host of venues around town. As usual, it’s hot on the heels of its big sister, the giant that is the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, picking up some acts as they continue on their own […]

Global Marketers Descend For AANA’s RESET For Growth
  • Advertising

Global Marketers Descend For AANA’s RESET For Growth

The Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA) has announced the final epic lineup of local and global marketing powerhouses for RESET for Growth 2024. Lead image: Josh Faulks, chief executive officer, AANA  Back in 2000, a woman with no business experience opened her first juice bar in Adelaide. The idea was brilliantly simple: make healthy […]