Richard Collins
Founding Designer at Thoughtful
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Collins is a mission-driven product and design leader with 12 years of experience turning complex consumer and B2B problems into elegant, revenue-generating products. As a founding designer and head of product design, he’s taken multiple ventures from concept to traction—launching an AI voice coach to $20K MRR in 4 months, a Web3 loyalty platform to $15K MRR, and designing a video conversation product acquired by Harvard. He blends hands-on full‑stack development comfort with product strategy, GTM experience, and prompt engineering to ship measurable growth (high retention and conversion lifts across products). Known for scaling teams and design systems—he led WeightWatchers’ app from 1 to 4.8 stars while building inclusive, research-driven practices. Based in Jersey City, he pairs startup grit with enterprise discipline and a knack for turning novel tech (AI, on‑chain NFTs) into user-centered business advantage.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Lean & Agile, Lean & Agile at General AssemblyInteraction Design, Interaction Design at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and ArtProduct Management, Product Management at ReforgeBachelor of Science - BS Design, Bachelor of Science - BS Design at Skidmore College
Github Skills (132)
python10
ecosystem10
django10
golang10
management10
container10
router10
eslint10
go10
docker10
moby10
assemble10
javascript9
erp9
ecmascript9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
richardcrichardc/digitalwhanganui
Mar 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
richardcrichardc/infr
Jun 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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