Chris Courtney
Lead Product Designer, Employer Brand at Glassdoor
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolChris Courtney is a design leader with 12 years of experience turning first-of-its-kind product challenges into practical, scalable tools for media, government, and talent platforms. Currently leading Employer Brand product design at Glassdoor, he blends product thinking with hands-on systems work to support multi-property, multi-country experiences across Glassdoor and Indeed. Previously he built mission-driven design systems and internal tooling for DoD initiatives at Shift, founded an open education design studio (NewPragmatic), and scaled remote teams and curriculum as a director at Bloc. Equally comfortable shipping marketing sites with WordPress/Webflow as he is architecting component libraries in Figma, Chris has a knack for reducing maintenance overhead while speeding deployments. A longtime speaker and educator in news and visual journalism, he brings a rare mix of newsroom product instincts and disciplined design ops to employer-facing product strategy.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ruby on Rails, Ruby on Rails at Starter LeagueBachelor of Arts - BA Design and Visual Communications General, Bachelor of Arts - BA Design and Visual Communications General at University of Central Arkansas
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
media-queries7
reporter7
styles7
ios6
plugin5
css5
figma5
fundamentals4
designer4
react3
design-tokens3
ux-design3
collaboration2
typescript1
ui-design1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
designhawg/circuit
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
Collaboration with the Chicago Reporter, Injustice Watch, and the BGA
Contributions:2 PRs, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
bgachicagocollaborationreporter
designhawg/kvh
Jul 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:39 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
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