Cross Screen Media Platform Overview
UI/UX Data Visualization Ad Tech

Cross Screen Media

Four years unifying audience discovery, media planning, and campaign measurement into one political advertising platform.

Role

Lead Product Designer

Timeline

4 years

Platform

Web Application

TOOLS

Figma, Photoshop, After Effects, Miro, YouTrack

TL;DR

Problem

Unify outdated, disconnected political advertising tools into one platform and make dense analytics feel intuitive.

My Role

Lead Product Designer across core workflows, research, and cross-team alignment over 4 years.

Constraints

Legacy UX, high data density, and many stakeholder needs (sales, CS, data science, engineering).

Impact

The platform became one product. Revenue grew 300% over the same period.

The Challenge

Most political advertising tools either drown people in raw data or oversimplify the insights. Ours was no exception, and its services had never been connected. The job: make complex data feel intuitive.

300%
Company Revenue Growth
100%
Positive Feedback on Feature Releases
4
Years of Collaboration

My Contributions

What I owned across four years:

Audience Builder Redesign

Drag-and-drop voter segment building with real-time audience sizing.

Data Visualization System

A consistent chart, table, and palette library across the platform.

Design System Rebuild

Rebuilt the design system on MUI6. Builds that took days now take hours.

Competitive Measurement Reporting

Campaign measurement reporting across TV, Digital, and CTV.

TV Insights Dashboard

The interface and UX flow for TV-specific analytics.

User Research Program

Built the research function from scratch; its processes are still in use today.

Product Blast Format

An internal update format the whole company adopted, the CEO included.

Brand & Marketing Alignment

One visual language across product, website, and social.

Audience Builder

The Audience Builder is where agencies define who they want to reach. I rebuilt it over two years, on a full year of research with campaign managers, account managers, media planners, and the directors making the calls, and turned a confusing multi-step wizard into a real-time builder.

Smart Categorization

Thousands of segments, most rarely used, became a few hundred high-value ones in a menu people can drill into without losing context.

Audience Builder Category Selection
Audience Builder Slider Controls

Precision Controls

Sliders update reach in real time. Drag-and-drop makes Boolean queries feel natural.

Data Visualization & Reporting

I worked through dozens of variations with engineering and data science to put relationships on one screen that nobody had visualized together before.

Cross Screen Media Crosstabs Report

Crosstab Analysis

Heat-mapped tables compare segments across geography, demographics, and media markets at a glance.

Interactive Filtering

Filter, sort, reorder, export. Everything updates live as the audience changes.

Density Visualization

Color-coded density makes concentrations visible without reading a single number.

Design System

Brand Colors

#0077A2
#0099CC
#4ECDC4
#1A3A4F
#F5F7FA
#FFFFFF

Building for Scale

The Figma files I inherited were a mess: inconsistent components, stray hex codes, concepts that didn't match production. I rebuilt everything on MUI6 with the front-end team. Builds that took days now take hours, and design and engineering share the same building blocks.

Key Trade-offs

Data density vs. clarity

We limited simultaneous chart types per view to reduce cognitive overload, even though power users wanted more on a single screen.

Customization vs. standardization

We standardized dashboard components to speed delivery, sacrificing some bespoke visuals for consistency.

Speed vs. fidelity

We shipped incremental releases to validate adoption rather than waiting for a perfect full-platform overhaul.

What the Team Said

"I had the privilege of working closely with Andrei for four years, and I can say without hesitation that he is a rock star teammate.

Andrei is incredibly creative and brings a true multi-disciplinary approach to every challenge. He connects product, design, engineering, and business strategy in a way that drives real outcomes, not just ideas.

I was genuinely sad to see him go, but any organization would be lucky to have him."

Michael Beach, CEO at Cross Screen Media

"Beyond being a talented Lead Product Designer, Andrei is never afraid of a challenge. He built our user research function from the ground up, designing all of the processes and frameworks we still use today. He has a genuine gift for drawing out honest, actionable feedback from customers.

Any team would be lucky to have him."

Alexander Hitchcock, Head of Product at Cross Screen Media