# David Shadle > Product Strategy & Design Leadership | Driving clarity and execution in complex environments | Available for strategic partnerships and fractional leadership roles Location: Redmond, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/davidshadle With over two decades in design and product roles, I’ve built a career around helping teams bring bold ideas to life. I bridge strategy and execution—rolling up my sleeves to lead cross-functional teams, get stakeholders aligned, and make sure we’re building the right things for both the business and the people using them. My background spans UX design, product strategy, and delivery, which means I’m comfortable navigating ambiguity and turning vision into something real and scalable. ## Work Experience ### Partner; Strategic Product Advisor and Designer @ m+d2 & Associates Jan 2025 – Present | Greater Seattle Area Partnered with Shagamed Endoscopes, an FDA-cleared breast cancer prevention technology company, to build business strategy and $5M seed investor materials using AI-powered methodology to rapidly structure and validate their California market approach. • Led team through major pivot from multi-state Series A to focused California validation program. • Built and maintained living knowledge base using Claude as strategic advisor—synthesizing market research, financial modeling, and 40+ critical business questions while managing team alignment and client deliverables across 13-week engagement. • Designed audience-specific fundraising materials (medical peers + impact investors) including pitch decks and talk tracks that shifted positioning from detection to prevention, creating differentiated narrative for category-defining technology ### Co-founder; Strategic Product Advisor & Designer @ Vortent Partners Jan 2025 – Present | Sammamish, Washington, United States Execution partners for late Seed/Series A founders in life sciences, deep tech, and cleantech Partnered with Yonder Materials, an AI-driven materials discovery company, to translate breakthrough lab technology into a customer-facing product platform—designing the LeapLab experience (“SuperAgent” AI interface and Dashboard) through strategic facilitation and interactive prototyping to support go-to-market and investor readiness. • Facilitated working sessions with cross-functional teams to distill complex scientific workflows into clear, actionable product requirements. • Delivered strategy documentation, design concepts, and interactive prototypes that guided the development of a multi-stage MVP platform. • Provided leadership perspective that helped the team move from technical possibility to market-ready product direction. ### Principal Product Designer - Microsoft Copilot Studio, Autonomous Agents @ Microsoft Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Redmond, Washington, United States Explored and shaped the product direction for emerging agent-based systems designed to automate complex Enterprise workflows. Balanced strategic vision, technical feasibility, and customer insight to move ambiguous concepts into structured product direction and early-stage validation. • Defined and prototyped end-to-end agent workflows for supply chain and invoice scenarios—turning abstract system models into tangible use cases that informed product planning and roadmap priorities. • Led cross-functional concept sprints with product, engineering, and industry advisors to validate feasibility and establish a framework for how multi-agent systems could deliver enterprise value. • Created key product artifacts—including experience maps, decision models, and systems diagrams—that aligned internal stakeholders and clarified long-term vision for agentic capabilities. • Partnered on early user research and real-world scenario development to ensure solutions addressed both technical complexity and user needs in regulated, high-stakes environments. • Contributed to product guidelines and design standards now adopted across multiple Microsoft teams working on next-gen automation and Copilot extensions. ### Principal Product Designer - Power Automate @ Microsoft Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 Partnered with PM and engineering teams to identify and validate new opportunities for intelligent automation within Power Platform. Contributed directly to early product definition, concept testing, and enterprise readiness planning for agentic feature sets. • Conducted stakeholder interviews across product, engineering, and marketing to synthesize insights into decision frameworks that influenced roadmap prioritization. • Facilitated cross-functional envisioning workshops and built concept prototypes to de-risk strategic assumptions and gain alignment on automation system capabilities. • Collaborated with customer advocates and industry partners to surface unmet enterprise needs and align early stage concepts with real-world use cases. • Delivered product recommendations and experience prototypes that informed feature scoping, GTM alignment, and investment decisions for next-phase development. • Presented early-state product concepts to executive stakeholders, driving clarity on strategic fit, user value, and technical implications. ### Principal Design Manager - Power Automate @ Microsoft Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | Business Apps Group - C+AI Design Studio Led design strategy, product definition, and execution across Power Automate’s key product surfaces. Built and scaled a global design team while staying hands-on in driving roadmap development, cross-functional alignment, and feature delivery across the automation ecosystem. • Co-owned product direction for features across Cloud Flows, Desktop, Process Insights, and AI Builder—working closely with PMs and engineers to define requirements, validate solutions, and deliver measurable UX and business improvements. • Launched Power Automate’s first AI-powered natural language interface—leading cross-functional efforts to define user flows, align platform capabilities, and deliver an intuitive experience that broadened adoption and executive visibility. • Created and led prioritization frameworks with product leadership to balance technical constraints, user needs, and business goals across product investments. • Supported customer-facing initiatives by surfacing key feedback loops, facilitating user research, and translating findings into actionable backlog items. • Grew and mentored a high-performing design team embedded across key areas of the platform—ensuring design quality while helping scale process and planning discipline across the org. ### UX Strategy Lead & Acting Product Owner | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) @ Oracle Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, Washington, United States Led the product strategy and execution of interactive console experiences for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Focused on simplifying complexity across service provisioning, marketplace transactions, and platform navigation—using customer insight, cross-functional collaboration, and systems thinking to deliver scalable infrastructure solutions. ### Senior UX Designer / Product Strategist @ Shiftboard Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Seattle, Washington, United States Led the modernization of Shortboard's web and mobile applications for contingent workforce scheduling. Introduced user-centered practices into the product development process, driving improvements in usability, retention, and internal alignment. Balanced customer insight, product planning, and hands-on execution to deliver tangible platform improvements. ### UX & Product Designer | HPE Helion @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Seattle, Washington, United States Played a key role in shaping the early UX strategy for HP’s Helion cloud management platform, contributing hands-on to the design of infrastructure and developer tools. Focused on delivering intuitive, scalable solutions that improved efficiency and supported product adoption. ### UX & Product Consulting @ Second On left Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Sammamish, Washington, United States ### Founding Product Designer @ Snap Skout [talktUp, LLC] Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Bellevue, Washington, United States Played a critical role in defining the early-stage product vision and experience strategy for Snap Skout, an offer recommendation engine for online publishers. Partnered with business and engineering teams to shape MVP scope, validate core assumptions, and drive product-market fit in a fast-paced startup environment. ### UX & Product Designer | Social Intelligence @ SDL Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Seattle, Washington, United States ### Senior UX Designer | Bing @ Microsoft Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Bellevue, Washington, United States ### Senior UX Designer | Platform Strategy @ Microsoft Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | Redmond, Washington, United States ### UX & Visual Designer | Developer and Platform Evangelism @ Microsoft Jan 2002 – Jan 2008 | Redmond, Washington, United States ## Education ### BFA in Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Art History, University of Oregon Jan 1991 – Jan 1994 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/davidshadle - Portfolio: https://davidshadle.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/davidshadle JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/davidshadle/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30