Braden Kowitz
Design Leadership
San Francisco, California
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Min Investment:
$10,000.00Max Investment:
$50,000.00Target Investment:
$25,000.00
Skills
Education
- CM
- Uo
Lists including Braden
Work Experience
2024
Design Director
2024
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.
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.
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.
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.
2002 - 2004
Research Assistant
2002 - 2004
Integrated System Laboratory, and Knowledge Based Systems Laboratory.
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.
1997 - 1997
Intern, Interactive Exhibits
1997 - 1997
Designed and implemented interactive exhibits for the web and the museum floor.