Brandon Chau Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, Kr

Redwood City, Ca, Us

In addition to my responsibilities leading the Product Design team (see below), I assumed Product Management responsibilities over two product squads with the additional responsibility of crafting short and long term product strategy, distilling critical feature details with engineering teams, and keeping strong ties with customers and other key stakeholders regarding stability and feature releases.- Direct Applications: lead strategy and roadmap for the engineering team responsible for supporting revenue from our top spending customers. Partnered with ML teams to drive adoption of new automated bidding product, which grew to represent 75+% of total customer spend within 9 months while continuously growing net revenue.- Native Ads: lead a cross functional team of Growth Managers, Biz Dev Managers, Engineers, and Data Analysts to scale a new native ad format. Through a series of investigations, experiments and strategic feature releases, we were able to grow revenue by 80%+ over 2 consecutive quarters.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Design leader for: Direct Ads, Publisher Monetization, Influencer Marketing, Creative Builder, and Gamerefinery. Leveling up the user experience of all customers and operations facing products to help mobile developers grow their mobile apps through advertising and monetization solutions.- Collaborated with executive leadership to craft multi-year product vision, strategically aligning the company mission through a unified customer journey involving the merger and acquisition of 6 companies.- Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to standardize tools and processes for our design team to effectively drive strategy and reduce risk.- Enhanced team effectiveness through implementing key rituals (Design Critiques, Design Reviews, Project Retros), and establishing a formal career ladder and hiring pipeline.- Expanded team skills from solely visual design to encompass user research, prototyping with real data, and usability testing.

Los Angeles, California, Us

[Exit] Acquired by Digital Turbine in 2021.Head of Product Design and Product Manager for Advertising and Monetization Dashboards. My focus was to empower external customers and internal operations to effectively and efficiently execute on mobile publisher’s advertising and monetization strategies. Led automation roadmap to reduce human error and adapt network supply and demand to programmatic (RTB) standards.- Launched and drove adoption of Universal Ad Format, scaling delivery of proprietary ad formats to programmatic OpenRTB compliant supply sources.- Launched a suite of bulk operational tools, that boosted operational throughput by as much as 1200% for certain common tasks.- Brought to market self-service Campaign Management features allowing all clients to manage their own campaign activity without requiring intervention of account managers.- Support all stages of product design execution (including strategy, research, ideation, prototyping, testing, iteration, execution).

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Head of Product Design for Opera Mediaworks ensuring a strong user experience amongst all internal and external facing products including Ads Dashboards, Creative Builders, Ad Formats, and more. - Led redesign of Composer Ad Builder with a focus on usability, user research, and design systems. Scaled usage from 28% to 78% for all Interactive Ad Units globally over 1 year.- Built high performing design team to 5 Product Designers servicing over 10+ product lines across web, iOS, and Android. Responsible for recruiting and developing talent as well as ensuring teams are delivering high-quality work that delivers on business strategy and mission. Led 2 team members to promotions to senior roles.- Work cross-functionally with leaders of other functions (e.g. Product, Design, Engineering, QA, Operations and Sales) to develop and execute product development process, ensuring that teams are collaborating effectively to execute on company strategy. Champion user experience across all user facing product lines across the organization.

Los Angeles, California, Us

[Exit] Acquired by Opera Mediaworks in 2014.Founding designer leading all aspects of design across AdColony including Product Design, Creative Services, and Brand Marketing. Grew an incredible team of Interactive and Motion Graphics Designers from the ground up producing award winning Interactive and Video Creative for Fortune 500 companies and top mobile gaming companies.My core skills encompass visual design, art direction, interaction design, motion design, and occasional front end development for desktop and mobile web.Product Design- Directly supporting Product Managers and Engineers across all user facing products including Ad Formats and Ads/Monetization Management Dashboards.- Designed and developed the company's App Install End Card, which was responsible for driving 75B+ App Installs from 2012 to 2016.Creative Direction- Recruited and managed Creative talent to support Sales and Ad Engineering, from pre-sales RFP mocks to post-sales execution of custom video and interactive mobile ads, leading to over 12+ awards in mobile advertising during my tenure.Marketing - Established AdColony's brand identity across digital, web, motion, and print.- Designed and developed the adcolony.com website from 2012 to 2016.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Led Game Art and Creative Advertising teams. Core skills included art direction, illustration, UI design, and motion graphics design.• Recruited and maintained relationships with freelance video producers.• Led Art Direction and Design for all Jirbo Games (200+) across iOS and Android, including multiple Top 10 iOS Games including Sovereign: Kingdoms, Tap Reef, and more.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• First designer at early stage mobile gaming studio responsible for all Design functions in the organization from Game Art/Sound Design and Marketing Materials.• Jirbo, Inc. was an early iTunes App Store app developer launching over 200 apps/games and generating over 40 million downloads across iOS and Android.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Collaborated with Department Chair and other faculty stakeholders to launch a publicly accessible video archive of notable guest lecturer presentations given at the Design | Media Arts campus at UCLA. Responsible for design and front end development.• Partnered with design leads and faculty stakeholders to realize the department rebranding through all web identity executions.• Performed regular content updates and design adjustments in HTML, CSS, Javascript, and SQL.