Shane Brown

Product Designer &

Team Lead

Los Angeles, CA +1-562-***-**** ad2upw@r.postjobfree.com LinkedIn My Portfolio

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Summary

Hi,I’m Shane, a mobile and web application product designer and team lead specializing in clean and intuitive growth led digital experiences that tie directly to business goals and ignite audiences. Researching, planning, and iterating on shipped products and features that delight users and increase revenue is one of my strongest skills. I have done this professionally for 10+ years, working with agencies, small startups and fortune 500 companies. I’m seeking a role where I can work with (or build) a great team and create products that have massive impact.

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Experience

DubClub / Product Design Team Lead

2022 - Present, San Francisco, Ca

A double sided iOS and web application connecting sports handicappers to sports bettors allowing them to share their plays via subscription model and beat the books.

● As part of the leadership team and product quad I worked cross functionally between our executive, product, data, engineering and marketing teams to identify opportunities and scope features to define the product and design roadmap increasing GMV by over 315%

● Designed, PM’d and launched the DubClub Plays iOS app in 2023 with a current 4.7 star rating becoming the most utilized way for users to view their plays and content.

● Created the “Jackpot”design system and achieved parity with the engineering team which sped up feature launch velocity and improved the consistency of the customer experience

● Led user research and usability testing to learn more about our users needs, identify feature opportunities and create feedback loops for quick feature iterations on interactive prototypes.

● Provided dev ready Figma files for handoff and implementation with design documentation across mobile, tablet and desktop views.

Curtsy / Head of Design

2021 - 2022, San Francisco, Ca

Consumer iOS, Android and web application and internal support & inventory web app. Curtsy is a Gen z focused app that makes it easy to thrift and sell clothing, shoes, accessories, and more.

● Led user research, user testing, and product design on all features from discovery to launch on every platform.

● Successfully designed & launched Android app in 2022

● Designed our atomic design system and achieved parity with the engineering team to ensure quick and seamless design sprints and expedited development time.

● Created feedback loops and conducted user interviews and usability testing sessions leading to feature development that increased DAU by 200%, DMU by 265% and new user sign ups by 450%.

Surkus / Lead Product Designer

2018 - 2020, Santa Monica, Ca

iOS, Android and web application. A multi-sided experiential marketing platform. Consumer-facing, we offer our members exclusive access to events and offers from partner brands in exchange for their engagement.

● Designing, delivering, and shipping user-friendly, high-quality, product designs from discovery to launch on all of our platforms.

● Hired and led a team of 6 full-time designers and managing contractor relations as well as evangelizing the impact of design across the organization.

● Conducting qualitative and quantitative user testing to validate and iterate on new features and app enhancements.

● Led the design effort on localizing our app internationally accommodating 4 languages including Arabic RTL support.

● Led design effort in creating an atomic based design system and gaining buy-in from stakeholders to achieve engineering parody. Contract Consultant / Product/UX/UI/CX Designer

2008 - Present, SF Bay Area - Greater Los Angeles Area PRODUCT / UI / UX / VISUAL DESIGN CLIENTS:

Koehler, Boston Design Group, Headspace, Credit Karma, Google, FitOps, Veterans Future Foundation, GetMyFunds, Empath, Sesh, Icon On-Demand, Alumai, Favorize, Flare iOS, SNAP Drones, and more. GRAPHIC / APPAREL / PRINT DESIGN CLIENTS

Target, Sprite, Red Bull, Oakley, FitOps, University of Health & Performance, Quiksilver, Burton Snowboards, Volcom, Libtech Snowboards and more... AUX Music / Co-Founder & Product Designer

2017 - 2018, San Francisco

iOS application allowing friends with different music streaming services to create a shared music queue in real time. Users could also export their party mix, share songs, artists, albums and playlists across streaming platforms.

● Featured in Apple's TV show "Planet of the Apps", selected as a finalist by Will.I.Am and awarded seed funding by Lightspeed Ventures in the series season finale.

● Featured in the App Store for one week and received over 20k downloads when the episode aired in August 2017.

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Bitmatica / Principal Product Designer, Creative

Director & Partner

2013 - 2016, San Francisco

Full service digital design and development consultancy. First hire designer turned partner in one year. Lead on all client and internal design projects as well as responsible for hiring and managing the internal design team and design contractors as our client list and internal team grew.

● Designed, delivered, and shipped user-friendly, high-quality, product designs from discovery to launch.

● Collaborated with clients directly as well as internal and external stakeholders, product, marketing and engineering teams to ensure design intent is realized across all web and mobile projects..

● Design flows and interactions that are intuitively simple.

● Crafted prototypes to communicate design ideas, evolve, organize, and refine the client's design language and shipped products.

● Discover, stay abreast, and recommend effective design tools for collaborative work.

CLIENTS INCLUDE:

Autodesk - Ember 3D Printer

Stanford University (Pharmgkb.org redesign was directly responsible for a

$250k grant)

Credit Karma - Personal loans and credit card refinance tier. Apptemize

Maersk

AVG Cyber Security

Corax Cyber Security

Dashtab for Salesforce (Acquired by SaaScend in 2018) Kwicr (Acquired by InStart Logic in 2016)

Bowery Capital

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Spiraledge / User Interface Designer

2011 - 2012, San Jose, CA

Spiraledge is an Internet Retail & Software Company focused on healthy living.

● Led design of surfoutlet.com, Spiraledge’s first action sports focused e-commerce venture that exceeded first year projections.

● Worked on conceptual redesign of isport.com from a tutorial site to entire social platform for sports enthusiasts and teams to play and learn together.

● Designed ui for internal application allowing our retail buyers to automate some of their routine tasks and set alerts to identify trends..

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Shaun White Enterprises / Sr. Graphic Designer

2009 - 2010, Laguna Beach, CA

Working directly under the head of the design studio and responsible for the creation of all aspects of Shaun White's brand with a focus on the Shaun White 4 Target clothing line, his Burton board and apparel line, RedBull creative assets, Oakley creative assets, web design and various other sponsorship related design projects..

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Awards & Press

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Recommendations

● Invision Best Design Award - LAUNCH! Hackathon

https://twitter.com/Launch/status/572235544920395777 Shane is a multi-talented designer and design team leader. He is passionate about the user’s experience and their journey, and consistently evangelizes this guiding principle to his team and co-workers. Shane has a solid track record of creating intuitive high-quality design solutions, and has a tremendous work ethic / dedication to his craft. He delivers designs that are highly polished and well researched. He possesses a natural talent for presenting to audiences both large and small, including at the executive level. Shane leads with positivity and by example to always inspire those around him, and is an invaluable asset to any product design team!

- Ross Cox, Product Executive, Manager

“Shane is a super-talented designer who brings a wealth of skills, creative resources, and positive energy to his work. I thoroughly enjoyed working with him on Autodesk's Ember project, where he quickly familiarized himself with our problem space and started prototyping highly effective solutions to our users' needs. Shane helped our team quickly build and test a web interface with complex professional-level functionality, while keeping it as simple, intuitive, and human-friendly as possible. I'm confident that Shane will be a skillful, friendly, and highly-valued contributor to any design team, and I wholeheartedly offer my highest recommendation of him and his services.”

- Shalom Orsby, Head of Experience Design at Autodesk

“Shane is not only a pleasure to work with, he's a creative and receptive designer that I could always count on to produce high-quality work.”

- Rocco Morris, Co-founder and Business Development at Whisha

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