Austin Dodd Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York City Metropolitan Area

As the global director of design at Spartan I drive the evolution of the Spartan product, enhancing the Spartan brand by refining the digital experience and crafting compelling content to cultivate a devoted user community. Leveraging a sharp focus on both the business objectives and user requirements, guiding the product's trajectory across all stages of its lifecycle: from ideation and creation to execution and post-launch analysis. They oversee every phase of the design process, including the final stages as developers code and launch the final product. This means along with completing UX designer tasks, they also take on the responsibilities of a project manager within the scope of designing new features for the Spartan Race digital product.The global director collaborates closely with the brand & sales teams to integrate brand campaigns seamlessly into the sales calendar, ensuring alignment between product launches and promotional efforts. By strategically intertwining brand messaging with sales initiatives, the product designer enhances the overall customer experience and strengthens brand presence across various touch points. This synchronized approach enables the product designer to optimize both product development and marketing strategies for maximum impact and resonance with the target audience.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Product Manager with a focus on the digital product of Spartan Race's web product. Here I manage a team of engineers & UX/UI to execute a global product & marketing roadmap adding significant incremental value to the organization. Significant value comes through ideation, design, and deliverance of compelling features, content and an exceptional user experience.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Performed a full audit of existing technical debt, UX/UI, SEO, and Content Strategy of the Spartan Race Digital Product. Scoped a rebuild of the Spartan brand on Shopify and delivered a new site in 4 months time. After relaunching the Spartan brand on Shopify, I continued to manage the business timelines & resource allocation of a creative and development team for 9 months as we continued to build out the Shopify digital product for Spartan Race.

New York, New York

Project Manager on the design and build team of One Rockwell, an E-commerce agency in New York. Working to audit, scope, and launch e-commerce sites for some of the industry-leading fashion brands. Specializing in managing migrations across platforms, financial budgeting, business timelines & resource allocation.Notable brand collaborations & work:– Norma Kamali (Site Migration / Magento->Shopify)– Normalife (Site Launch / Shopify)– Meadow Blu (Site Migration / Magento->Shopify)– Trish McEvoy (Site Redesign / Shopify)– Loeffler Randall (Managed Services/ Magento 1.0)

Greater Seattle Area

Manager of content strategy for Filson's Direct to Consumer e-commerce site. Delivering best-in-class digital experience by working closely with our Creative, Planning, Development, and Marketing Teams to consistently improve our multi-million dollar online business.Primary Functions:•Develop multi-team processes to evaluate and analyze digital campaigns and sales - maximizing profit and improving time spent on projects. •Plan, execute and coordinate all online merchandising and marketing strategies to improve conversion and provide a cohesive customer experience across online and catalog selling.•Drive sale strategies and marketing initiatives while ensuring the customer experience is omnichannel and "on brand" at all times.•Improve business processes around campaign and marketing launches, Magento infrastructure and overall business needs.

Seattle, Washington

Manager of Filson's international expansion in e-commerce. Driver of outstanding international web performance through consumer insights and leveraged data from multiple analytical platforms. Using data to make educated decisions in Creative Web Planning, Strategic Digital Marketing, and informed Merchandising.

Seattle, Washington

E-commerce merchandiser of two international websites(filson.com/eu & filson.com/uk). Driver of outstanding international web performance through consumer insights and leveraged data from google analytics. Also, heavily involved in data mining/administration of Filson product data. Major PM & software platforms involved include JIRA, Magento, Excel, Basecamp & Smartsheet.

San Luis Obispo, California Area

DEL Ozone is a leading innovator in the water sanitation industry. I handled the distribution of company advertisement to vendors across the country along with establishing a social media presence.

Greater Seattle Area

At the Sounders I worked in various different roles across the office. I helped manage an event space called The Ninety. This space was used as a pre-match and away match hangout space as well as third party meeting space. I worked in the event idea creation process as well as day of event management. Along with managing this game day event space, I worked with the Sounder's ticketing MatchPass program. The work I did with MatchPass involved a great deal of work in the fan rewards program and customer service department. I also worked 1-2 days a week at the front desk covering for the office assistant.

Greater Seattle Area

Performed market research on other mobile photography based applications. Facilitated all potential partnership acquisitions.

Bachelor'S Degree, Business

Activities and Societies: Cal Poly Men's Club SoccerConcentration in Information Systems

Diploma, High School