Charles Brewer

Experience

Exit

SpaceIQ

Director of UX 2019 - 2020 (over 1 year)

Leading the UX design for this facilities management and lease management SaaS platform. Established User Experience Design processes: User Research, Internal design standards... more

Aditazz

Director of Product Design, Product Council Leader 2017 - 2018 (about 1 year)

Established Product Management processes
• Established product management processes: 1-pager opportunity profiles, roadmap, backlog, user story formats
• ... more

TubeMogul

Director of Product Design 2016 (6 months)

Established UX group, processes, and recruited talent. Designed big data software unifying TV, Web, mobile and more for global brand advertisers. Led development of "Signal"... more

Pubmatic

Lead Product Manager & UX Designer (consultant) 2014 - 2015 (about 1 year)

Recruited UX team. Planned & delivered customer & competitor analysis. Generated initial roadmap, epics, features, user stories. Led redesign of the Pubmatic adtech... more

Victorious

Director of Product & UX (consultant) 2014 (6 months)

Led the product discovery & definition, roadmap, use cases, and UX design for the Victorious platform: a mobile-first social video community for Youtube & other social... more

OpenX

Director of User Experience 2013 (7 months)

Redesigned the OpenX adtech platform, unifying 4 legacy web apps. Established UX capability & processes. Built UX & front-end dev team, led design and prototyping... more

ParkMe

Director of Producrt & UX (consultant) 2012 - 2013 (7 months)

Led the definition, product discovery, design and launch of new revenue product: Parking reservations system, incorporating iOS-Android-Web ecosystem. Set up and managed backlog,... more

SportsGunner.com

Founder, Head of Product & User Experience 2011 - 2012 (over 1 year)

Director of UX Design & Product for social fantasy sports marketplace. Ideate, run collaborative design sessions, design & spec, source & work with outside contractors.... more

Exit

MySpace

Principal Product Manager, Global Team 2010 - 2011 (7 months)

Product management for public landing page, user's logged in home page and global site circulation. Set OKRs, develop & groom product backlog, develop product specs, lead... more

Founder

SportsGunner.com

Employee

OpenX, TubeMogul, MySpace, AT&T Interactive, Spot Runner (Acquired by Harris Corp), Director of AI Enablement, Product Management & Design, MindStudio, ParkMe, Victorious, Pubmatic, Aditazz, SpaceIQ

Advisor

Mindstudio

Projects

Designing Interfaces, 3rd Edition - Co-author - O'Reilly Media (2020)

Interaction design handbook for execs, UX, product managers

Author · Write new chapters, update and rewrite existing chapters, update all examples.

It's not easy to design good application… · More

With Aynne Valencia

User Eperience for Entrepreneurs Video Course

A video course to help startups use UX effectively

Writer, Producer, Presenter · Director, Product Management * Senior Product Manager * Head of Product & UX * Lead Product Manager | VP/Director of… · More

Education

About

Achievements

• Launched world's 1st online marketplace for broadcast TV ads, with 120+ buyers & $120M+ ARR with my design for the Malibu Media Platform, the 1st SSP programmatic & real time bidding ad server & marketplace for broadcast/cable television. For Spot Runner. Role: PM, Dir. UX
• Co-founded innovative fantasy sports stock market game, securing $1+ million seed venture round, 10,000+ active players & Wall Street Journal launch coverage for Sportsgunner. Role: Founder, Head of Product & UX
• Secured $13M+ venture round by delivering MVP of social influencer video & community platform for Victorious. Role: PM
• Achieved 200%–600% speed increase in ad buyer task completion by redesigning core ad campaign and placement manager for TubeMogul (now Adobe). Role: Dir. UX
• Enabled new revenue stream ($500M potential) and increased TAM by designing 1st paid parking reservations system for ParkMe. Role: PM
• Launched 1st AI/ML-powered 3D architecture design platform for Aditazz Synthetic Design

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Product Management User Experience Strategy User Experience Design Creative Direction Brand Design and Strategy Project Management Service Design UI/UX Design User Research Artificial Intelligence Generative AI AI Agents

Locations

San Francisco

Q&A

What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

Thoughtfully Ruthless, by Val Wright

Charles Brewer

Fractional Chief Product and Design Officer (CPDO), AI Enablement Lead for Series B+ Startups. Custom "Three P's" (People, Process, Product) transformation.

Fractional Chief Product and Design Officer (CPDO), AI Enablement Lead for Series B+ Startups.
Custom "Three P's" (People, Process, Product) transformation.