# Tyler Schmidt > Product Engineer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/tylerschmidt VP of Product Engineering for Marcos Pizza. From Johns Hopkins to Silicon Valley—spearheading Ubisoft.com's complete redesign, building multichain Web3 experiences, and optimizing commerce flows that directly impact revenue. I solve business problems through design. Passionate about AI integration and creating scalable experiences at the intersection of emerging tech and human-centered design. The future is being designed by people who understand that technology is only as powerful as the human experiences it enables. ## Work Experience ### VP Product Engineering @ Marco's Pizza (Marco's Franchising, LLC) Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States Responsible for management of the Marcos Pizza Customer Facing digital surfaces. ### Sr User Experience Designer - Commerce Growth @ Adobe Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Commerce Growth Team - Buy Flow Optimization - Translate complex user needs into practical design solutions that are grounded in user research and data. - Collaborate. Demonstrate thought leadership through collaboration and workshops with partners and other design teams. - Confidence in driving multiple projects forward while delivering on short term goals. Lead. - Inspire teammates and forge relationships across the company. ### User Experience Designer @ Aquent Studios Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Aquent x Adobe Studios - Consonant Team. Responsible for UI design of components for Adobe's web design system. Tasked with accessibility improvements and stylistic updates to functional components. -Shipped new Carousel component. Carousel is fully accessible with responsive reflow of content and support of various media. Includes design of internal video play interaction. Carousel was successfully integrated into Milo design system. -Designed updated Tab Framework. Tabs are widely utilized across Adobe.com. We needed to update the pill tabs to meet accessibility requirements, and evolve them to align with the new Spectrum 2 design direction. I designed responsive tabs with multiple sizing options and color options, considering all edge cases such as long type reflow. ### Cofounder @ Strangelove Crypto Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Co-Founder @ Strangelove Crypto Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area As the cofounder of Strangelove, I helped scale my company from 2 people to over 30. Strangelove has generated $10M in revenue for the past two years. I am directly in charge of the 10 person Front-end product team responsible for all user facing experiences built by our company. I also lead the naming and branding exercise for Strangelove itself. ### Senior User Experience Design Strategist @ Ubisoft Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area TL;DR: I managed the Ubisoft Design System and designed one-off product experience for the Customer Experience Team. Responsibilities: • Gather critical insights about what Ubisoft website visitors need, using creative research methodology (surveys, user interviews, heatmaps + recordings, web analytics reports, etc.) • Create user workflows, narratives, and UX design documentation to capture and articulate complex ideas, drive decisions and standardize our process • Create wireframes and persuasively present recommendations for usability and functionality to internal teams and partners • Work with Ubisoft's web producers, developers and analysts to design A/B and multivariate tests to continually refine and optimize our page layouts, navigation systems and conversion flows • Provide expert recommendations to internal teams and external agency partners to ensure the quality of the execution of our UX strategy • Regularly seek to understand new industry technologies, trends, tools, and methods – and share that information back out to the team ### Senior User Experience Designer @ Freelance UI/UX Designer Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Clients: Mozilla, Ebay, Paypal, Apple, Samsung and more Responsibilities: -Translate business problems into design-driven solutions. -Identify ux design opportunities based on strategic analysis. -Facilitate and lead product design sprints. -Lead cross-functional design teams. -Educate clients on latest trends in user experience/ interaction design. -Present design solutions to client suite. (Including c-level) -Manage client feedback. -Manage the Pylon brand. -Recruit contractors to produce high fidelity design documentation. -Accounting/Administrational duties. ### Senior User Experience Designer @ AKQA Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area Tyler floated between Activision, Levis, Bud Light, Verizon, Best Buy and others. Tyler was the UX “fixer”. No project was too big or complicated for him to organize. He presented major design deliverables including interactive prototypes. He designed web experiences and brainstormed concepts for Brands such as Call of Duty, Live in Levis, Destiny and many more. He was also a keynote speaker at AKQA’s Insights conference for C-suite clients. ### Experience Designer @ Goodby, Silverstein & Partners Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Greater Detroit Area As lead Experience Designer/Information Architect for all Chevrolet digital assets, Tyler was responsible for interface design and information architecture on various Chevrolet properties, including Chevy.com and campaign sites like the Corvette C7 reveal website . ### Experience Designer @ Campbell-Ewald Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 As a part of an integrated creative team, I am charged with coming up with new interactive experiences that directly solve brand-related problems. Primarily focused on US Navy. ### Creative Technologist @ The Brandcenter @ VCU Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 Awarded a Master's of Science in Communication. Specifically, Creative Technology. I studied Interactive Design, Mobile Prototyping, and IA/UX, and creative concepting methodologies around design and technology. ### User Experience Design Intern @ Harley-Davidson Motor Company Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 Tyler likes motorcycles, so he worked H-D on Mobile Platform Development for his summer internship between years at the Brandcenter. (Concept Development, Strategy and UX design) Results: Influenced live design for the HD-1 Customizer Presented new innovation ideas in rider to rider communications. ### Student @ Johns Hopkins University Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 I graduated with dual degrees in Economics and Philosophy, and a Business Minor. ### Sales/Marketing Intern, Social Media Team @ Google Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 •Live Sales Calls: Presented the Social Media value proposition to education clients. Won new business for the Social Media Team. •Social Media Best Practices, Local Vertical: analyzed research, created presentation which educated the Local teams on how to sell the Social Media ad inventory •Branded Entertainment Competitive Analysis: Collected and presented data on competitive ventures into branded entertainment. •Education Vertical Display Analysis: researched education clients total digital display ad activity, and provided new opportunities for education team. ### Sales Intern, Agency Relations @ Google Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 •Performed needs assessment sales calls, designed and presented a mock pitch for the Porsche advertising campaign. •Created Agency Roll-Up Table to help identify key opportunities across Google’s product ecosystem. •Contributed to brainstorming sessions for viral ad campaigns including Absolut Vodka •Gained technical knowledge of all Google products. ### Sales Representative @ Cutco Vector Marketing Corp Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 | Richmond I sold CutCo knives through cold-calling to generate leads, and provided bonuses for referrals. I presented the CutCo sales pitch in homes hundreds of times that summer. Only 2 no-sales for all sales presentations. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Economics, Philosophy The Johns Hopkins University ### Masters Of Science in UX Design Virginia Commonwealth University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tylerschmidt - Portfolio: http://tylerschmidt.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/tylerschmidt JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/tylerschmidt/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13