# Brett R. > Founding Product Designer/ eng. Polymath. Hands-on till I die. Location: Oakland, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/brettr1 I've been inventing, designing, managing and shipping for 14+ years to build awesome products. The companies I’ve worked for have raised a roughly $159.9 million, I was a core contributor to $61.4 million of that total which has led to $282million in exits. I'm Named on 8 US patients for interaction design for hardware and software. I lead design and eng for the highest rated AR app on the App Store (4.8) I have a track record of making awesome stuff with good people, I'm here to perpetuate that. ## Work Experience ### Head of Product Design @ Landbase Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area At land base I got to take an amazing tech stack and re-build a 0-1 product that became AAA tier design and ux. We were lucky enough to raise 30million in funding within just a few months thanks an incredible team. ### Head of Product Design (Founding Product Designer) @ Arya Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 At Arya I lead all aspects of Product Design. I've increased the total number of contracts and total contract value year on year. ### Principal Product Designer @ Levels Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | remote At Levels I defined and designed their habit formation strategy. From low level rewards to longterm engagement. ### Design Mentor @ Runway Incubator Jan 2015 – Jan 2022 I get to meet and share thinking with some of the most inspiring upcoming startup in SF. As the Design Mentor I get to share the lessons learned from shipping nearly 31 apps since 09' (along with some of the painful one) I do my best to connect with founders to understand their design challenges and help them and their teams execute creative solutions. Best part of it all are the friends I've made :) ### Founder, Product Design @ Anchor Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 Lead and built every aspect of Product Design. ### Director of Product Design (Founding Product Designer) @ doc.ai (acquired by Sharecare) Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area I lead everything design related from strategy to hands on implementation. Much of my work had to do with the touch points between humans and machine learning models. Core contributor to 20m dollar sale of product. Helping the company grow, thrive and eventually sell to Sharecare was a great lesson. ### Mentor @ Big Brother Big Sister Foundation, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Oakland I was blessed with amazing Mentors throughout life and I'm vary grateful for the opportunity to pay that forward. ### Teacher @ UC Berkeley Extension Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area I was lucky enough to teach the next generation of badasses how to prototype. ### UX Lead AR/VR @ Facebook AI Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 I took a deep dive into prototyping the future of AR and can promise you, the future is weird! RIP Building 8. ### Principle Product Designer @ ThinAir Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 ThinAir will fundamentally change the way people exchange high value data in 2016. I've worked closely with the team and they are some of the coolest, smartest people that I've been lucky enough to bounce the ball with. ### Lead Product Designer @ Wee Ship.co Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 I got an amazing chance to work with a wide range of talented people. As a team, we executed on ideas from concept to completion in about 30 days. More insane than that, we were able to do it for clients as well. I learned a ton about managing a wide range of projects and people, always with the purpose of guiding them through to reach creative goals. ### First Hire, UX/HMI (Advisor/ Contractor) @ Navdy Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area I had an awesome time working with Doug to bring the future of driving to life. UX for a projected device with touchless interface ranks among some of my hardest challenges. As a core contributor and early investor, I'm super proud of the work we did. ### Senior Product Designer @ SOLV. — Digital Marketing & Design Agency Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 I love working with JP and the team at Solv. They are hands down the best design shop in SF, I trust no one more. ### VP of Interaction Design @ JP Morgan Chase Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 ### UX/HMI @ Wonder Workshop Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area Vikas and his team were amazing to work with. Making an interface for illiterate 5 year olds that's both fun and educational was a long process with lots of prototyping. I ended up reducing the concept of IFTT to a single dynamic dot. Helping them launch a super successful pre-fund campaign, and then seeing them on Apples shelf just 2 years later still blows my mind. ### Senior Designer @ The Walt Disney Company Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 5 apps in the top 10. 1 held top paid, free and grossing. ### Senior Interactive Designer @ Tapulous Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 ## Education ### Certificate in Machine Learning Stanford University ### BA in Illustration/ Design LCAD ### LCHS ### Extension in Machine Learning Stanford University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hellya - Website: https://www.brettred.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/brettr1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/brettr1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-08