# Evan Coutre > Building AI experiences Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/evancoutre ## Work Experience ### Head of Design @ Character.AI Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 First product hire. Grew and managed the design team. Responsible for growth, core product, trust and safety, multimodal, monetization, new bets, brand, marketing & community. Built proprietary AI models for language, voice, image, & video. Built one of the first and most successful consumer AI applications with 20M+ maus spending on avg 90min on the platform. ### Product & Design Consultant @ Venture Backed Startups Jan 2020 – Jan 2025 Product & design consulting for high growth, early stage startups including: EightSleep (Series C - Founders Fund), Adaptive.build (Series A - a16z), Open (Series A - Sequoia) ### Product and Design Director @ Party Round Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Built the best fundraising tool for founders and investors from 0→1. Rebranded as Capital.xyz Acquired by Rho Banking ### Senior Product Lead @ Google Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California Monetization, user growth & loyalty for Google Play. Founding team member to build the largest digital loyalty program in the world measured. Focus on consumer marketplaces, developer platforms, mobile first e-commerce. ### Product Design Lead @ Box Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Redwood City Led design for all mobile and desktop consumer products at Box as well as partnership integrations including Google, Microsoft, Adobe, Facebook, Slack etc. Highlights: -Design lead for the redesign of Box for iOS (iPhone and iPad) -Design lead for the redesign of Box for Android -Design lead for Box Drive: a file streaming desktop application for MacOS and Windows. ### Product & Design @ 500 Startups Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, CA 500 Startups Batch 13 Led product and design to help companies iterate towards product market fit and raise their seed rounds of venture capital. ### Product Designer @ Leo Me, Inc Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area Leo was an easy way to share moments of your life with family and friends. Connect with your favorite people through short-lived photos, videos and texts, captured in the moment. ### Product Designer @ Camoji (Acquired by Lyft) Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area Camoji was acquired by Lyft. http://blog.lyft.com/posts/camoji Camoji was backed by Battery Ventures, Crunchfund, Freestyle Capital, Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, SV Angel and other angel investors. ### Analyst @ Top Tier Capital Partners Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Top Tier Capital Partners is a venture capital fund of funds that makes primary and secondary investments in VC funds and co-investments in select portfolio companies. Introduced me to the investing side of the tech, startup and venture industries ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science, Business Administration University of Southern California ### Executive Education - Product Management University of California, Berkeley ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/evancoutre --- Source: https://flows.cv/evancoutre JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/evancoutre/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25