Michael Jung Email & Phone Number

Greater Los Angeles Area

Slate is a boutique product development consultancy that designs & builds digital products for some of the world's largest businesses.* Oversee digital product ideation and execution for Slate digital transformation engagements (cloud-native backend, mobile, and Web MVPs), with international teams of 5-15 designers, engineers, QA, and DevOps* Recruiting.

Greater Los Angeles Area

UI/UX and frontend engineering for MVP of matchmaking/dating platform.* Wireframes and HTML/CSS builds for web consumer frontend* Twitter Bootstrap frontend engineering on top of AngularJS and Parse.com for administrative backend

Los Angeles, CA

Interim product lead for Ginger, a SaaS asynchronous communication app.* Execute SaaS playbook/growth hack-style activities* Gather customer feedback and determine product roadmap* Lead implementation of enhancements and fixes* Customer support

Los Angeles, CA

Created initial market research, financial projection, user stories, and wireframes for early-stage startup.

West Hollywood, CA

Led the ground-up creation of Evite Postmark (www.postmark.com), Evite’s premium online invitations and correspondence service. Launched a successful Q4 2011/Q1 2012 public beta with a fully-functional, revenue-generating business. Responsibilities included initial market research and competitive analysis, business modeling and forecasting.

Provided strategy, design, management, and technical services to clients including Maxim Digital, Hachette Filipacci Media, BUZZMEDIA, Fabric Interactive, Weplay.com, PureVideo Networks, Local.com, and Placebase. Projects included: experimental search/aggregation engines for Maxim and Car and Driver magazines; UX design of penny-auction application for.

Led startup product management and remote development teams in creation of scalable Web publishing, user-generated content, and live video streaming platform for deploying action sports- and sports-related content portals. Created platform specifications, internal workflow, and operational processes. Led relaunch of www.motocross.com on new platform.

Concepted and produced wireframes & design prototypes of Work.com next-generation business-to-business product. Produced visual re-designs of Business.com search engine & B2B directory. Re-designed interface for Business.com Advertiser Center, increasing online lead inquiries by 200%. Supported marketing with design of e-mail marketing, print.

Designed information architecture, interface, and search logic for Citysearch.com cityguide. Designed architecture and CRM prototypes for pay-per-click local advertising product. Led product development of cityguide editorial lists, increasing ad revenue by 11%. Assisted in development of Ticketmaster ticket resale pilot program (now TicketExchange)..