Résumé
Brent Otterlei.
Senior Product Designer. 20+ years across FinTech, e-commerce, payments and enterprise HR.
Experience
- 2019 — PresentSr Product Designer — Talent Management & BenefitsWorkday
Designing talent management and benefits experiences at enterprise scale. Currently focused on integrating AI into core HR workflows.
- Jan 2019 — Oct 2019Lead Product Designer — Core App ExperienceTwine (John Hancock)
Led design for everything post-onboarding in the Twine savings + investing app on iOS and web.
- 3×Apple App of the Day
- 4.6App Store rating
- $20MAUM
- 30KEngaged users
- Drove design from inception through hi-fi delivery on the core app surface
- Partnered with Research, Marketing, Legal, Product, Engineering, Data, Support
- Helped lead design sprints and design-corner critique sessions
- Extended an existing design system and introduced new patterns for mobile + web
- Aug 2017 — Sept 2018Lead Product Designer — Sam’s Club Mobile AppWalmart Labs — Sam’s Club
Owned mobile design for the Sam’s Club shopping experience across iPhone, iPad, and Android, doing ~$1M/day in transactions.
- $37MAnnualized GMV from FOI
- 3%App GMV lift
- Took projects from inception to delivery on all four platforms
- Presented to CEO and VP of Product before engineering handoff
- Led brainstorm and review sessions to foster cross-team collaboration
- Jan 2016 — June 2017UX Design Manager — Commerce PlatformVerifone
Led design for a B2B2C payments ecosystem — Android terminal app, App Store app, web admin tools — for big banks and small merchants. Won the 2017 Design Award.
- Designed an entire payments ecosystem from inception through implementation
- Built an Atomic Design system and got engineering buy-in to ship it
- Managed a small internal team plus a 5-person external design agency
- Presented the UX vision to the CEO and board and got approval to move forward
- June 2013 — Jan 2016Head of Design (Employee #2)Clip
Founding designer for a Mexican payments startup. Spent the first 18 months as Head of Design and sole IC, then built and led the design team after Series B.
- $1B+Pesos processed
- 7.7M+Transactions
- 30K+Merchants
- Set UX strategy and vision; designed the process
- Took Clip from concept through implementation on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone
- Managed internal team plus external design, IxD, branding, and packaging agencies
- March 2011 — May 2013Sr UX Lead — VISA CheckoutVISA
Led UX design for VISA Checkout, built on the UltimatePay 2.0 platform VISA acquired with PlaySpan. Contributed to a pre-Apple Pay contactless solution that informed VISA’s partnership with Apple.
- Built a small internal team plus a 5-designer agency (LabZero)
- Worked on a pre-Apple Pay contactless solution used in the Apple Pay partnership
- Focused on a diverse team and a healthy design culture
- May 2010 — March 2011Sr UX Designer — UltimatePayPlaySpan
Redesigned UltimatePay from the ground up. Facebook and Disney were first clients. VISA acquired PlaySpan for $190M to use the platform for VISA Checkout.
- Feb 2009 — May 2010UX DesignerFanSnap
Led UX for ticket search and the interactive seat maps that still power SeatGeek today.
- Nov 2007 — Jan 2009Sr UX/UI Designer & Front End DeveloperDoostang
Redesigned a social network for finance professionals. Grew from <100K to >500K active users while I was there.
- July 2006 — Nov 2007UX/UI DesignerTeqlo
Designed an early SaaS application platform. Logo and brand work in addition to UX.
- Nov 2003 — July 2006Web Designer & Front End DeveloperE-Book Systems
Designed and shipped the e-book store and support site; converted print magazines to a digital flip-book format.
Skills
Strategy, IA, interaction design, visual design, and prototyping across mobile and web. Comfortable from zero-to-one through scaled platform work.
Design systems, component libraries, and process design. Built atomic systems at Verifone, Sam’s, and Twine and contribute to Workday’s.
Stakeholder interviews, on-site observation, in-club and in-merchant testing, comparative usability against the market.
Tying design decisions to GMV, conversion, AUM, NPS, and retention. Comfortable presenting to CEO, board, and cross-functional leadership.
Currently integrating AI into talent management workflows at Workday. Building this site with AI-assisted tooling end-to-end.
Built and managed teams at Clip, Verifone, and VISA; managed external agencies (LabZero, Momentum); IC at heart.
Tools
Education