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Braden Kowitz

Design Director at Vanta

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Braden Kowitz is a Design Leadership professional based in San Francisco, California, currently serving as the Design Director at Vanta. With a background that includes roles at Stripe, Range, GV, and Google, he has excelled in leading design teams and implementing innovative design strategies to drive product development and user experience improvements. Highlights of his career include co-founding Range and serving as a Design Partner at GV, showcasing his expertise in design thinking, user research, and product development. His current role at Vanta as Design Director further emphasizes his strong leadership skills and ability to drive impactful design solutions.

Work Experience 

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Vanta

  • Design Director

    2024 - Current

Vanta is a trust management platform that automates compliance and risk management.

Raised $353,000,000.00 from Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, HubSpot Ventures, Workday Ventures, JP Morgan Chase, Craft Ventures, CrowdStrike and Atlassian Ventures.

vanta.com
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Stripe

  • Design Manager

    2021 - 2023

    Led the consumer design team of 17 amazing designers, researchers, and writers. Together we launched Link across 6 Stripe products, and launched the first versions of pay by bank, and crypto onramp. Led product design for checkout experiences.

Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses.

Raised $9,440,247,725.00 from E1 Ventures.

stripe.com
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Range

  • Co-Founder

    2017 - 2021

    Co-founded Range, with a mission to build effective teams through software. Led Product and Design, building a product that was loved by teams at Twitter, Carta, Coursera, and more.

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GV

  • Design Partner

    2010 - 2017

    Pioneered the role of Design in VC. Built the Google Ventures (GV) design team. Together we invented and popularized the Design Sprint, including writing a NYT best selling book. I worked with over 100 startups, coaching designers and design leaders.

Google Ventures is an investment arm of Alphabet that provides seed, venture, and growth-stage funding to technology companies.

gv.com
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Google

  • User Experience Designer

    2005 - 2010

    Designed and launched the first versions of Google Workspace, Google Spreadsheets, and Google Trends. Early contributor to Gmail.

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

google.com
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Research Assistant

    2002 - 2004

    Integrated System Laboratory, and Knowledge Based Systems Laboratory.

Visual Insights (Lucent Technologies)

  • Intern, Software Development

    1999 - 2000

    Designed and implemented custom visualizations for analyzing website traffic paths. Integrated existing visual query and analysis tools with OLAP databases.

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Museum of Science and Industry Chicago

  • Intern, Interactive Exhibits

    1997 - 1997

    Designed and implemented interactive exhibits for the web and the museum floor.

Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry is a science museum that is home to more than 35,000 artifacts, both on display and in storage.

msichicago.org

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