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

Director of Product & User Experience

Founder, STRUXIO, LLC 2012 - Present (almost 13 years)

Digital Product Strategy and Design Consultancy
• Startup UX / Product Discovery / DesignOps / Design Systems: Systemic approaches to innovation
• Management & Team... 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

Director of Product & User Experience, SportsGunner.com

Employee

OpenX, TubeMogul, MySpace, AT&T Interactive, Spot Runner (Acquired by Harris Corp), ParkMe, Victorious, Pubmatic, Aditazz, SpaceIQ

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

I'm a product strategy and design leader with deep experience in SaaS platforms and consumer products.

I inspire with a results-oriented strategic vision for your product. I deliver results by using design for ambitious problem solving based on observant insights into our customer's world.

I work with senior leadership to turn ideas into digital products. And I increase the capability of design teams along the way.

Launched ad tech platforms & RTB/programmatic marketplaces, CMSs, programmatic TV ad platform • Innovative parking reservations system • Fantasy sports marketplace: Head of Product, Cofounder • Increased registrations w/ new Myspace home page • Rebrand 100 award winner

TubeMogul, Spot Runner (Malibu Media Platform), OpenX, Pubmatic, LookSmart, Visa, ParkMe, Victorious, SportsGunner, Myspace, The Walt Disney Co., ABC, AT&T Interactive/YP.com, Kodak, Four Seasons Resorts & Hotels, United Airlines, Cengage

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 Agile and Lean Startups Branding Service Design UI/UX Design User Research Web Design

Locations

Los Angeles San Diego Durham

Q&A

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

Thoughtfully Ruthless, by Val Wright

Charles Brewer

Director of Product Design: B2B/SaaS platforms. Building organization design capability. Special projects. Design Systems.