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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Stripe Workbench
Our next-generation developer tool with an entirely unique UX

Shopify Hydrogen
Creating the future of headless commerce tools at Shopify

Shopify GitHub integration
Supercharging theme development with GitHub

Spotify Encore
A next-gen design system for hundreds of device types

Shopify Extensibility
Bringing third-party apps directly into the Shopify admin

IKEA conversational design
Designing the chat experience and personality for IKEA Place

Stripe Workbench
Our next-generation developer tool with an entirely unique UX

Shopify Hydrogen
Creating the future of headless commerce tools at Shopify

Shopify GitHub integration
Supercharging theme development with GitHub

Spotify Encore
A next-gen design system for hundreds of device types

Shopify Extensibility
Bringing third-party apps directly into the Shopify admin

IKEA conversational design
Designing the chat experience and personality for IKEA Place