# Marc Levinson > Product Leader, Focused on emerging tech Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/marclevinson Marc works with businesses to clarify their strategy, build appropriate processes for their size, and ship meaningful products, fast. Ensures that product development is tightly aligned with business goals. Drives measurable results on complex products. Coordinates all parties involved in product development. Focus Areas: Seed to Series D startups • Emerging tech • Fintech • Healthtech • B2B2C • Zero-to-one execution Highlights: TrustPoint (Employee #1): Launched MVP for a multi-user fintech platform ☑ Supported Series A raise and first customer deployments ☑ Built 13-person product/design/engineering team ☑ Recruited advisory board members through network ☑ Integrated KYC/KYB, payments, and document automation ☑ Collaborated on ML/AI-powered lender scoring Simplee (Acquired by Flywire: FLYW): Led consumer-facing product work in healthcare payments ☑ Improved transaction KPIs ☑ Co-led launch of pre-service pricing tool ☑ Delivered first responsive, ADA-accessible UI Codeshelf: Led cross-functional design team (EE, ID, UX) for BI and warehouse automation ☑ Co-developed agile hardware-software process (ZeroDiff) ☑ Upgraded GUI and modular hardware from prototype to product ☑ Enabled two-week in house iteration cycles with synchronized software + hardware execution Currently working with clients on new product launches and scaling existing products. Advising early-stage startups. Dabbling in seed/angel investing. Occasionally publishing under Space Garage™. More information about client work, fractional and interim roles available upon request. ## Work Experience ### Founder | Product Strategy & Development @ Space Garage Jan 2021 – Present Product development services: Helping companies clarify direction and success metrics, build prototypes and MVPs, optimize product and design operations for scalable execution, scale teams for ongoing efforts. ### Advisor @ Captain Compliance Jan 2024 – Present ### Advisor @ TrustPoint.ai Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Head of Product Experience @ TrustPoint.ai Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Employee #1 – Led product development from zero to MVP, shaping the initial product and experience vision, defining the roadmap, and managing execution. Efforts helped secure Series A funding and acquisition of earliest customers. Built and launched a complex B2B2C fintech platform, connecting contractors, inspectors, homeowners and lenders. Led implementation of KYC/KYB, ACH, and automated document workflows. Collaborated with engineers to develop digestible scoring that transformed extensive project data into actionable insights for lenders. Built and managed a 13-person team across product, engineering and design. ### Product Management Lead @ Simplee Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, California Led consumer-facing fintech products, optimizing transaction flows to drive revenue and improve patient payment experiences. Championed the implementation of a new design system, overhauling the front-end to deliver Simplee’s first fully responsive and mobile-ready experience—also ensuring ADA accessibility compliance. Contributed to strategic product improvements that supported Simplee’s acquisition by Flywire (NASDAQ: FLYW), finalized shortly after my departure. ### Product Design Lead @ Simplee Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, California Owned UX and interaction design across the product ecosystem. Established scalable design operations and built larger product design team, transitioned focus to product. Architected and designed first phases of a scalable design library. Improved primary payment platform, Introduced a pre-service pricing tool and a patient point-of-sale solution. Efforts helped broaden engagement with patients and unify their healthcare experience. ### Product Strategy and Experience Consultant @ LevinsonID Jan 2010 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area Full service Product consultancy: Offered services in product development across hardware and software. Emphasis on guiding early stage startups, strategic paths to market validation via rapid prototyping and lean manufacturing. Client list available upon request. ### Director Of Product Design @ Codeshelf, Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Oakland Led the transition of Codeshelf's product line (hardware and software) from working prototypes to a market ready, well packaged family of products and services for warehouse automation. Co-developed ZeroDiff, a design-to-manufacturing process enabling rapid iteration of hardware and software products in two-week sprints. Collaborated with engineering leadership and executive team to define roadmap priorities and explore future-facing innovations, including computer vision and robotics. ### Founder | Head of Product @ Protos Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area Pioneered first fully custom 3D-printed eyewear line, leveraging parametric modeling to generate personalized frames. Led MVP development from concept to market, personally designed and prototyped MVP, oversaw subsequent eyewear lines and supporting software platform. Secured over $50K in crowdfunding and 6 figures in seed funding. Established key manufacturing partnerships to scale production. Drove strategic investment and partnership talks with Luxottica, managing business development and go-to-market efforts. ### Principal Designer @ SECTOR Global Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 "Sector works with clients to develop products and the businesses around them." Full service Product Design studio brought clients from initial concept to full scale production. Strategy, Branding, Industrial Design, User Experience Design, Engineering, Overseas Manufacturing. ### Industrial Designer @ F5 Networks Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Worked to develop an overarching look, feel and physical interaction for upcoming products. Developed documentation and guidelines for use by a future contract and in house industrial design team. ### Industrial Designer @ The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company LLC Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 Conceptualized, designed and manufactured a scalable retrofitting alternative to replacing expensive exterior lighting on Ritz-Carlton properties. Provided a 90% cost reduction per fixture resulting in over $120k in savings for Ritz-Carlton properties. Consulted with Singer Island Ritz property management and Florida environmental authorities. Worked to develop a way to help waterfront buildings meet new lighting requirements put in place for sea turtle nesting habits. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design California College of the Arts ### Continuing Education Credit in Data Science & Machine Learning Stanford University ### Via California College of the Arts in Business Consulting University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/marcslevinson - Website: http://www.Spacegarage.org - Website: http://www.ProtosEyewear.com - Website: http://www.coroflot.com/levinsonid --- Source: https://flows.cv/marclevinson JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/marclevinson/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-08