# Brent White > Product design leader skilled at scaling products and teams across mobile, cloud, and hardware platforms. Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/brentwhite Hands-on UX leader who has built digital experiences for cloud, mobile, and hardware platforms at startups, consumerized enterprise applications for big tech, and created UX teams from first hire during early-stage funding through successful IPO. I’ve scaled products, teams, and processes during hyper growth, integrated acquired company products, and expanded the product portfolio across verticals. I championed user research practices with E-Staff and incorporated findings into product requirements and strategic roadmap planning. ## Work Experience ### Senior XD Manager, Mobile @ Charles Schwab Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States Working with a team dedicated to converging design, technology, and a deep understanding of diverse investor needs to make something special. ### Principal Design Director @ Unknown Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Consulting start-ups on human-centered product design ### Senior Director, User Experience @ ChargePoint Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Campbell, California, United States • Transformed ChargePoint to a user-focused company that built experiences addressing emerging user needs in the EV charging ecosystem. • Scaled a global user experience team to 14 including designers, researchers, content strategists and industrial designers. • Led the definition of a new cloud platform that unified acquired products into a single robust offering • Established a research team that conducted dozens of studies to gain an understanding of user profiles and socialized findings to align across product, marketing, documentation & dev. • Collaborated on a common design-to-develop design system with Figma and React accelerating the dev process from months to weeks. ### Director, Product Management & User Experience @ ChargePoint Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Campbell, CA • Served a dual role as product manager driving roadmap for the driver services and mobile app portfolio in addition to leading the user experience team across all verticals. • Led new product development partnerships with Google, Apple and key customers such as Mercedes Benz with over $10MM in spend to enable new vehicle in-dash, watch and map platform experiences. • Pivoted the design team to design a new platform addressing the emerging market for management of electric vehicle fleet operations. • Conducted European research to inform design solutions addressing local market needs. • Analyzed metrics from MixPanel and App Annie to guide the user-centric transformation of driver sign up and payment models while saving over $1MM annually in credit card transaction costs. ### Director of User Experience @ ChargePoint Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | Campbell, CA • Built a user experience team one critical hire at a time while working as a hands-on designer. • Transformed the iOS and Android apps from a 1-star rating to a high of 4.7 leading to over 2 million downloads, leading the EV charging Navigation app category. • Redesigned the cloud platform to provide enterprise customers with insights and improvements in the management of charging stations, energy and drivers. • Led the redesign of the public charging station UI, making it consistent with mobile design language; defined LED status ring color behavior and audio earcons for charging hardware events. • Designed the end-to-end software and product configuration for the category-leading ChargePoint Home charger including initial activation, station management, and integrations with Nest and Alexa. • Created designs to foster community between drivers and between drivers and organizations. ### Architect, Mobile User Experience @ Oracle Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 • Created a digital assistant app using rudimentary AI for sales reps using speech-to-text technology and natural language processing. • Defined mobile design patterns and components for a platform that enterprise customers used to create mobile & tablet apps. • Transformed a suite of Supply Chain applications that targeted both frequent and occasional users. • Engaged customer advisory board with supply chain management prototypes to get feedback on product direction. • Conducted ethnographic research to understand work usage of mobile devices in North America, Europe and Asia sparking innovations in data displays, search and voice interfaces that led to over a dozen patents and conference presentations. ### Principal Interaction Designer, Mobile User Experience @ Oracle Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 Led the design of Oracle's next generation suite of mobile enterprise applications. Applied a user centered design process that integrated research throughout the design cycle. Conceived an enterprise model of mobile interfaces and managed a team of designers to realize a design for each part of the model. Published several papers on mobile design and research. ### Senior Interaction Designer, Supply Chain Management @ Orarcle/PeopleSoft Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 Design solutions for supply chain management applications. Started out as an employee of PeopleSoft. ### Lead Designer @ Mr. Stock Jan 1999 – Jan 2003 Designed and engineered front end trading platform for startup options trading fintech ### Web Designer/Marketing Associate @ Wells Fargo Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 Transformed print product marketing into online experiences by learning to design, code and manage marketing pages for WellsTrade ## Education ### M.S. in Human Factors & Ergonomics San José State University ### B.A. in Language Studies (Linguistics) University of California, Santa Cruz ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brent-kaan-white --- Source: https://flows.cv/brentwhite JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/brentwhite/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13