Career

Owen Williams is a design manager, developer and maker based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He's currently working at Stripe, leading developer experience design.

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Product Design Manager Stripe

2022 - Present

I lead product design for Stripe's developer experience, docs, and AI. We push the boundaries of developer tools to help our users focus more on growing their business, rather than building.

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UX Manager Shopify

2019 - 2022

I led a large UX team working on developer tools at Shopify, from API design to the CLI, and deep in the weeds of extensibility. Mostly recently, I lead the custom storefronts group working on Hydrogen and Oxygen.

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Founder / Freelancer Charged

2017 - 2019

I helped brands with content, UX strategy and more. Working with a group of companies in every stage to help them get the most from their resources, and grow products with great copy.

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Digital Director VanMoof

2016 - 2017

Built the digital marketing organization from the ground up to focus on data-driven decision making and moved app + web development in-house.

I led the engineering team, built out a digital marketing + voice strategy, and helped launch the brand into new countries (including Japan) online.

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Editor The Next Web

2013 - 2016

Telling stories about the people behind technology, writing news and breaking down complex topics for wide audiences. Managed implementation of performance-focused overhaul of the site, slashing loading times 60 percent.

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Infrastructure Engineer Xero

2011 - 2013

Engineer on critical infrastructure team responsible for scaling the platform to millions of users. Supported product team to debug issues on the platform, optimized performance and built out a deployment pipeline for high availability.

My Work

Here's a selection of projects from across my career as design manager, developer, and beyond.