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Résumé

Brent Otterlei.

Senior Product Designer. 20+ years across FinTech, e-commerce, payments and enterprise HR.

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Experience

  1. 2019Present
    Sr Product Designer — Talent Management & Benefits
    Workday

    Designing talent management and benefits experiences at enterprise scale. Currently focused on integrating AI into core HR workflows.

  2. Jan 2019Oct 2019
    Lead Product Designer — Core App Experience
    Twine (John Hancock)

    Led design for everything post-onboarding in the Twine savings + investing app on iOS and web.

    • Apple App of the Day
    • 4.6
      App Store rating
    • $20M
      AUM
    • 30K
      Engaged 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
  3. Aug 2017Sept 2018
    Lead Product Designer — Sam’s Club Mobile App
    Walmart Labs — Sam’s Club

    Owned mobile design for the Sam’s Club shopping experience across iPhone, iPad, and Android, doing ~$1M/day in transactions.

    • $37M
      Annualized 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
  4. Jan 2016June 2017
    UX Design Manager — Commerce Platform
    Verifone

    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
  5. June 2013Jan 2016
    Head 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
  6. March 2011May 2013
    Sr UX Lead — VISA Checkout
    VISA

    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
  7. May 2010March 2011
    Sr UX Designer — UltimatePay
    PlaySpan

    Redesigned UltimatePay from the ground up. Facebook and Disney were first clients. VISA acquired PlaySpan for $190M to use the platform for VISA Checkout.

  8. Feb 2009May 2010
    UX Designer
    FanSnap

    Led UX for ticket search and the interactive seat maps that still power SeatGeek today.

  9. Nov 2007Jan 2009
    Sr UX/UI Designer & Front End Developer
    Doostang

    Redesigned a social network for finance professionals. Grew from <100K to >500K active users while I was there.

  10. July 2006Nov 2007
    UX/UI Designer
    Teqlo

    Designed an early SaaS application platform. Logo and brand work in addition to UX.

  11. Nov 2003July 2006
    Web Designer & Front End Developer
    E-Book Systems

    Designed and shipped the e-book store and support site; converted print magazines to a digital flip-book format.

Skills

Product design

Strategy, IA, interaction design, visual design, and prototyping across mobile and web. Comfortable from zero-to-one through scaled platform work.

Systems thinking

Design systems, component libraries, and process design. Built atomic systems at Verifone, Sam’s, and Twine and contribute to Workday’s.

Research & validation

Stakeholder interviews, on-site observation, in-club and in-merchant testing, comparative usability against the market.

Business framing

Tying design decisions to GMV, conversion, AUM, NPS, and retention. Comfortable presenting to CEO, board, and cross-functional leadership.

AI in design

Currently integrating AI into talent management workflows at Workday. Building this site with AI-assisted tooling end-to-end.

Leadership

Built and managed teams at Clip, Verifone, and VISA; managed external agencies (LabZero, Momentum); IC at heart.

Tools

FigmaFigJamPrincipleFramerSketchInVisionPencil & sketchbookReact + TypeScriptAI-assisted prototyping

Education

San Jose State University
BA, Graphic Design
San Jose State University
Minor, Photography
Academy of Art University
MFA, Graphic Design — Coursework, 2004–2007