Rich Brown
Senior Lead, Product Launch at Shopify
Bath, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRich Brown is a product and UX leader with 10+ years’ experience shaping consumer and enterprise experiences, now leading product launches at Shopify from his base in Bath, UK. He combines hands-on product design roots—co-founding Great Little Place and running a boutique creative shop—with senior roles at Etsy and Shopify, guiding cross-functional teams to ship customer-centred products. His background in ergonomics and formal training in sustainability leadership and HCI give him a rare blend of human-centred design, systems thinking and product strategy. Rich frequently operates at the intersection of startups and established organisations, having been an EIR and freelance design lead on projects with Jaguar Land Rover and Barclays. He teaches and mentors product managers and designers, translating messy stakeholder needs into clear roadmaps and specs. Outside work he runs la-menagerie.com, reflecting a continued appetite for creative entrepreneurship and community-driven projects.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Digital Technology Design & Innovation, BSc Digital Technology Design & Innovation at Technological University DublinLangue et Civilisation French Language and Culture, Langue et Civilisation French Language and Culture at Université Paris-SorbonneMaster’s Sustainability Leadership, Master’s Sustainability Leadership at University of CambridgeBSc Ergonomics, BSc Ergonomics at Loughborough UniversityDistinction User Experience Design, Distinction User Experience Design at General AssemblyCoursera Course Human Computer Interaction, Coursera Course Human Computer Interaction at Stanford University
French
Github Skills (9)
shopify9
online-store9
ecommerce8
react7
figma-plugin7
component-library7
design-tokens7
typescript6
vscode-extension6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
Shopify/dawn
Nov 2023 - Jan 2024
Shopify's first source available reference theme, with Online Store 2.0 features and performance built-in.
Contributions:1 review, 1 comment in 1 month
online-storeecommerceperformancebuilt-inshopify
designrichly/pintrss
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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