BK

Braden Kowitz

Design Leadership

San Francisco, California

Investor

Invests in

Stages:

Seed
Pre-seed

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

User Interface Design
User Experience
Product Design
User Research
Prototyping
Product Development
Interaction Design
Design Strategy
Design Thinking
Web Design
JavaScript
Web Development
Wireframes
Prototype
Usability Testing
Wire Framing
Usability Engineering
Rapid Prototyping
User Interface
User Experience Design

Education

Work Experience

Vanta

2024

  • Design Director

    2024

Stripe

2021 - 2023

  • Design Manager

    2021 - 2023

    Led the consumer design team of 17 amazing designers, researchers, and writers. Together we launched Link across 6 Stripe products, and launched the first versions of pay by bank, and crypto onramp. Led product design for checkout experiences.

Range

2017 - 2021

  • Co-Founder

    2017 - 2021

    Co-founded Range, with a mission to build effective teams through software. Led Product and Design, building a product that was loved by teams at Twitter, Carta, Coursera, and more.

GV

2010 - 2017

  • Design Partner

    2010 - 2017

    Pioneered the role of Design in VC. Built the Google Ventures (GV) design team. Together we invented and popularized the Design Sprint, including writing a NYT best selling book. I worked with over 100 startups, coaching designers and design leaders.

Google

2005 - 2010

  • User Experience Designer

    2005 - 2010

    Designed and launched the first versions of Google Workspace, Google Spreadsheets, and Google Trends. Early contributor to Gmail.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2002 - 2004

  • Research Assistant

    2002 - 2004

    Integrated System Laboratory, and Knowledge Based Systems Laboratory.

Visual Insights (Lucent Technologies)

1999 - 2000

  • Intern, Software Development

    1999 - 2000

    Designed and implemented custom visualizations for analyzing website traffic paths. Integrated existing visual query and analysis tools with OLAP databases.

Museum of Science and Industry Chicago

1997 - 1997

  • Intern, Interactive Exhibits

    1997 - 1997

    Designed and implemented interactive exhibits for the web and the museum floor.