Leslie Chioine, Designer in Denver, CO, United States
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Leslie Chioine

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Location
Denver, CO, United States
Toptal Member Since
September 28, 2016

Leslie is an experienced UX Designer and Product Manager focused on launching new products, drawing from a background in research and game development. A four-time product-founder, with 2 successful exits, Leslie is passionate about product discovery and ideation, finding product/market fit, beautiful design, great teams, challenging assumptions, and understanding user needs.

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Work Experience

Advisor

2016 - PRESENT
Ivy Labs
  • Advised on hiring, fundraising, product management, and design.
Technologies: Microsoft PowerPoint, Sketch

Research and Design Consultant

2016 - 2016
Eero
  • Worked on new product research, product management, and concept design.
Technologies: Presentations, Research Methods

Head of Product

2015 - 2016
Diana Labs
  • Was responsible for customer development and strategy definition of an eCommerce startup through hand-off with the full-time team.
  • Led efforts for rapid mobile prototype design, testing, and research.
  • Worked on web design and asset creation.
Technologies: Strategy, Research, Sketch

Product Design and Management

2015 - 2016
Ivy Labs
  • Worked on new product research and design.
  • Fulfilled responsibilities of PM through MVP launch and revenue generation.
Technologies: Trello, Asana, Sketch

Senior Product Manager

2013 - 2015
Breadcrumb by Groupon
  • Conceived & launched realtime sales analytics iOS app for business owners. Launch covered in TechCrunch, Product Hunt, and more. Adopted by 65% of user base in less than two weeks.
  • Responsible for defining product priorities, spec’ing new work, tracking down bugs, conducting customer research, overseeing 3 teams of 10 engineers.
  • Previously UX Design Architect. Designed mobile payments tool for bar patrons (patented), led design on our most requested feature Offline Mode, managed 3 person design team, conducted research to determine key user types and pain points in the current product, and led packaging design and prototyping.
Technologies: Pivotal Tracker, Jira, Swift, Sketch

Co-Founder, Product

2012 - 2013
42Floors
  • Rapidly moved from research to sketches to build-ready designs using Github to manage designs and projects.
  • Formulated and implemented extremely fast and effective hiring processes with our CEO. Created a human legible offer letter document. Heavily involved in hiring key team members 6 through 12.
  • Designed and launched search flows & tools, a mobile friendly version of site, brokered on-boarding, and tour request texting system.
Technologies: Memorandum of understanding (MOU), GitHub, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop

Chief Product Officer, Co-Founder

2011 - 2012
Lovely
  • Created and drove an extensive customer development process to define landlord and renter audiences, incorporating interviews, analytics, user studies, competitive analysis, persona development, and ongoing user testing.
  • Designed comprehensive wireframes and specs for the initial product, including map based search, fresh listings concept, renter resume, search & filter tools, email-based listings notifications, landlord communications, and analyzed site traffic to retire features like a list view.
  • Led our rebranding effort (from Homeboodle to Lovely), hired and managed branding team, community marketing manager, and design contractors.
Technologies: Research, Balsamiq, Adobe Photoshop

Experience Designer and Strategist

2009 - 2011
Adaptive Path
  • Research and design for clients including the California Health Care Foundation, Rail Europe, Global English, and the Bonnaroo Music Festival.
  • Conducted in-depth research for the California Health Care Foundation on the topic of making long-term health choices.
  • Secured repeat business from all of the above clients.
Technologies: Apple Keynote, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign

Lead Designer, Founding Team

2007 - 2009
Get Satisfaction
  • Worked as lead designer in a seven-person founding team.
  • Designed wireframes and UIs in lock step with engineering and business to find product market fit, from the seed of an idea to 20,000 communities.
Technologies: OmniGraffle, Adobe Photoshop
2015 - 2015

12 Week Course Completion in Mobile Development, Swift for iOS

General Assembly - San Francisco, CA

2013 - 2013

10 Week Course Completion in Back-end Web Development, Ruby on Rails

General Assembly - San Francisco, CA

2000 - 2004

Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Interactive Design and Game Development

Savannah College of Art and Design - Savannah, GA

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