# Brett Banning > Lead Product Designer at CareSource Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/brettbanning Product Designer with 10+ years of experience shaping zero-to-one products, scalable systems, and high-impact user experiences at companies like Uber, Atlassian and CareSource. I build from the ground up—design teams, design languages, and products that meet real human needs. I lead with systems thinking and collaborate across disciplines to align vision and execution. Along the way, I mentor designers to think critically, push craft, and grow into strategic partners. Explore some of my work @ BrettBanning.com ## Work Experience ### Lead Product Designer @ CareSource Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Driving strategic design across product, brand, and platform within a newly formed Human-Centered Design (HCD) team. Led the creation of CareSource MyLife, a front-door platform uniting internal systems with user-facing experiences. Directed digital brand updates for an enterprise-wide Design Language System. Mentored and hired designers to scale the HCD team and foster cross-functional collaboration. Led initiatives spanning onboarding redesigns, AI-assisted tooling, and $300K+ in savings via strategic brand research. ### Lead Product Designer @ Atlassian Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Led design for complex enterprise cloud initiatives, including the FedRAMP compliance program—a cross-org priority supporting secure government deployments. Championed platform thinking and scaled the Trusted Change system to build customer trust during continuous product delivery. Mentored and hired designers across teams, contributing to a scalable, high-functioning design culture. Known for navigating ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and architecting systems that connect user needs to technical capabilities. ### Senior Product Designer @ Uber Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Product Designer @ Uber Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Product Designer @ Monsanto Company Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater St. Louis Area • Create innovative solutions to some of our most difficult challenges using a human-centered design methodology. • Work closely with fellow designers, product managers, and engineers to identify opportunities and provide cross­-departmental feedback. • Improve the usability of a product by incorporating user research methods to guide the design, development, and refinement of the work. • Express concepts through powerful visuals and tangible form. • Contribute to strategic meetings and decisions with the product management teams. • Encourage and uphold high standards for our product experiences. • Serve as an ambassador for Product Design within the org and in the broader design community. • Mastery of Sketch, Adobe CS, Axure (or other prototyping products). • Passionate about human-centered design (HCD). ### User Experience Designer @ Caleres, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 • Produces design solutions informed by data and user research. • Collaborates with planning, IS, and marketing partners, to research and develop technical enhancements in accordance with business goals. • Effectively communicates in order to provide necessary context and clear understanding. • Creates wireframes to quickly iterate different ideas • Focusses on shipping solutions/products to market • Prototypes when necessary to create clarity for stakeholders and developers • Helps to create solutions, frameworks and guidelines for brand teams to utilize in their day-to-day work. • Maintains consistent user expectations across multiple devices and interactions. • Creation and maintenance of pattern libraries, templates, documentation, and other design assets. • Employs a user-centered approach to developing interfaces, layouts, use cases, and wireframes. • Assists in the facilitation of regular training sessions with the inclusion of designers and developers outside of the UX team in feature development. • Serves as a resource to stakeholders by tracking emerging trends in the digital interface landscape across all device types. • Presents new ideas and recommends new opportunities to assure continuous improvement. • Maintains a strong understanding of current tools, and principles, and stays abreast of emerging technologies and trends. • Demonstrates a hunger for constant growth in technical and creative environments. • Evaluates and estimates upcoming projects to assist in the planning and execution of developing digital experiences. • Sketches and shares ideas. ### Web Designer @ Caleres, Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 ### Web Designer @ The Principia Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 ● Serve as the lead creative designer for Principia’s main marketing and mini-websites, keeping true to Principia's brand and current web trends ● Take the lead on providing responsive design strategy, principles, and development ● Stay current on emerging web trends for design and function ● Integrate social media into digital marketing campaigns, using Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter ● Support and develop websites using content management systems: Drupal and WordPress ● Provide UI/UX (user interface, user experience) design and development throughout all Principia websites ● Keep current in SEO for main websites and mini-sites ### Junior Graphic and Web Designer @ The Principia Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 • Produces professional, strategic, high-quality design for marketing materials across all mediums • Supports the web team through web design and basic front-end programming, keeping true to current web trends and best practices in web design • Works to understand and ensure consistent and effective representation of Principia’s brand ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Studio Art: Graphics track Principia College Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brett-banning-43a88827 - Portfolio: http://brettbanning.com/ - Dribbble: https://dribbble.com/babanning --- Source: https://flows.cv/brettbanning JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/brettbanning/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25