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Dave Brown

I am customer-centric design leader with 15+ years experience shipping enterprise and consumer products. I enjoy designing enterprise software, developing people, and scaling systems.

I currently lead a team of ~35+ UX designers supporting ~25 AI/ML products in AWS. 

BELIEFS —

My professional mission is to unlock the creative potential of others and help create the conditions for their success.

When leading Design teams, I achieve this by:

  • Creating clarity for the Design team, partner teams, and in stakeholder relationships.

  • Shortening cycle-times and build mechanisms, so customer-centric feedback occurs throughout product development.

  • Constant learning and new opportunities drives career development, so offer challenges just beyond one's comfort zone.  

SKILLS —

  • Hiring and growing teams 

  • Collaborating across organizational boundaries

  • Leading and managing an inclusive workplace

  • Implementing customer-centric methods 

  • AI/ML UX

  • Design Thinking

  • User Research

  • Experience Design

  • Design Systems

BIO —

Dave Brown is a design leader that helps business and technology teams build customer-centric experiences. 

Over the last 15+ years, Dave has built new teams from the ground up across design and product — at early stage startups, design agencies, and for the last 8 years at Amazon retail and Amazon Web Services.

As a hands-on leader, he builds teams around a culture of innovation. Dave is passionate about transforming organizations through User Experience (UX) Strategy, Design and Research and empowering a customer-centric culture.

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