# Ellen Drewes > Product Designer and Builder Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ellendrewes Seasoned, strategic designer with a diverse skill set and a decade of experience in innovative and empathetic product design, research and leadership. I've spent my career helping companies reinvent core products, run revenue-generating innovation teams, create user research programs, mentor designers, and create company cultures that champion the user. Solid track record of working with cross-functional agile teams to turn user insights into profitable, functional and elegantly simple experiences that inspire & delight. Questioner, sleeve-roller, dot-connector, envelope-pusher, secret doorway finder, adept at solving the right problems and uncovering possibilities hidden behind data. See portfolio at ellenautumn.com ## Work Experience ### Founder and CEO @ Memeador Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, CA Memeador is a creative studio and product collective. We build AI-native tools and help our clients do the same. Everything we make is designed to leave the world a little richer, a little more interesting, a little more alive ### Lead Product Designer @ Amplitude Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | United States Led product design and discovery efforts for a lean, R&D-focused international team tasked with visioning and testing new ways to make Amplitude's product and data more powerful. ### Principal Product Designer @ Amplitude Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Principal Product Designer @ Quantcast Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 Led design efforts for flagship products including the Quantcast Platform and Quantcast Choice, managing design roadmaps, product strategy, user research and iterative development. Mentored junior members and helped create a company-wide culture of user centered design. ### Lead Product Designer @ Quantcast Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 ### Senior Product Designer @ Quantcast Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 ### Growth Designer @ Quantcast Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Product design, branding, customer research & lean experimentation for fast-moving innovation team at Quantcast, the leader in big data for the digital advertising industry. Created a new look and feel for Quantcast's web properties and successfully led a rapid redesign effort for Quantcast.com. ### Senior UX Designer @ Prosper Marketplace Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Design lead on consumer-facing products team at a rapidly growing marketplace lending company. Led major rebrand effort, responsive redesign and creation of UI pattern library and helped build design processes, user-centric workflows and a culture of collaboration as one of the first hires in a new department. Provided cross-team mentorship and assisted in foundational research efforts; delivered concepts, interaction flows, visual design, prototypes and informed hypotheses to push the product towards its potential on a daily basis. ### Senior UX Designer @ JustAnswer Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area Built user research and testing program and completed core foundational research; led product design and lean exploratory research practices for innovation teams, developing and shipping multiple products and redesigns that increased both profit margins and user ratings; served as lead designer for mobile app development and responsive redesign. Evangelized user-centric practices across the company and worked with cross-functional teams to improve collaboration processes and workflow. ### Head of Design @ Cloudfunded.com Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 Key product design/strategy role in a startup dedicated to making crowdfunding + microinvesting accessible to all. ### User Experience Designer @ Gilt Groupe Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 Developed product concepts, interaction flows and UI design for the launch of Gilt's Home site; managed visual, user interface and content issues for Decorati.com during its transition to Gilt Home. ### User Experience Designer @ Decorati Inc. Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 | San Francisco, CA Managed user experience, visual identity, branding and front-end development for luxury brand interior design startup acquired by Gilt Groupe in 2011. Worked closely with product and engineering teams to ideate, design, and develop innovative, best-in-class products and solutions resulting in new revenue streams and a transformed business model. After acquisition, worked with Gilt product team to ideate and design new product concepts, user flows and UI design for launch of Gilt Home. ### Senior Visual Designer @ The Glenn Group Jan 2005 – Jan 2008 Designed award-winning branding, interactive, television and print work, managed corporate identity projects, wrote brand guidelines, supervised project teams, art directed photo shoots, led client presentation. Produced work featured in HOW and Communication Arts. ### Digital Media Instructor @ Truckee Meadows Community College Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 Taught Introduction to Graphic Design and Digital Media 1, covering typography, design principles and history, drawing and storyboarding, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Final Cut, Flash, 3d animation and other introductory curriculum material. ### Graphic Designer @ Silver Legacy Resort Casino Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 Designed and oversaw production of advertising, collateral, interactive work and media campaigns for large MGM property, focusing primarily on branding and ad campaigns. ### Graphic Designer @ Peppermill Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 Designed multimedia advertising and collateral for northern Nevada’s largest resort property. Played leading role in development and execution of national and regional ad campaigns, art directed photo shoots and oversaw final production of print materials. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts in Journalism University of Nevada, Reno ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/edrewes - Portfolio: https://web.archive.org/web/20180319100544/http://ellenautumn.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/ellendrewes JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ellendrewes/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13