Daniele Codega
Partner at Work & Co
New York City Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2019 - Current
Design Director
2016 - 2019
Work & Co creates digital products and services that define great brands.
Venture Partner
2017
1984 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that seeks to invest in fintech, healthcare, SaaS, e-commerce, and consumer sectors.
Advisor
2021
Advisor
2020
Charter's mission is to transform every workplace and catalyze a new era of dynamic organizations where all workers thrive.
Raised $3,000,000.00 from Old Town Media, David Friend, David G. Bradley, Bloomberg Beta, Jessica Lessin, Precursor Ventures, Marcy Simon and Everywhere Ventures.
Co-Founder & Head of Product
2018 - 2019
Designed and build a platform to help people connect and exchange career and professional advice in hyper-personal, 1:1, chat rooms.
Simply press a button and Olmo connects you to the right people for domain expertise, career advice, or anything work related.
Creative Director
2015 - 2016
*Elephant is a design agency initially created by Huge to serve Apple. At Elephant I had the opportunity to work on-site at Apple on a variety of projects for a diverse set of business units. Including the Apple Support App, Apple.com and Apple Store App. As part of the company’s leadership team, I’ve also helped Elephant grow on few different fronts: finding and keeping talent, working on defining the company’s identity and vision, expanding operations to New York and Rio as well as extending the roster of clients beyond Apple.
Elephant.is is an interactive online classroom that helps people develop knowledge and skills in language and arts.
Raised $100,000.00.
Product Design Director
2014 - 2016
Over the course of my time at Huge I had the chance to work on mobile apps, wearable devices, Car OS and eCommerce for numerous global projects including Gucci, Samsung, LG and SkyPerfectTV. As a Product Design Director, I was partnering closely with the client (on-site and remote) and working with a talented team of User Experience Designers, Product Designers, Visual Designer, Developers, User Researches and more.
Head of Design and User Experience
2012 - 2013
I joined Thomson Reuters to lead the design efforts behind Next, the consumer facing platform for Reuters Digital. I built and led a team of incredibly talented UX and UI designers, Illustrators, Design Technologists and Sales Designers. We designed and built a state-of-the-art news driven product that would interface with users throughout a website and a portfolio of apps. While Next was in the works I was also responsible for a suite of new and engaging advertising solutions and editorially driven initiatives including the website that hosted the 2012 election. The iOS apps were released on January 2013 and were promoted to "Editor's Choice" on the AppStore. A preview version of the site was launched in March of the same year and was well received by users and critics. A case study of this work is published on the book "Designing News" by Gestalten http://www.francescofranchi.com/designingnews
Head of Design
2011 - 2013
I've partnered with Snip.it's founder from day 1 helping him transform an idea into a vision and a product. After two years of product iterations the company was acquired by Yahoo: https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/22/yahoo-buys-snip-it-10-million/
Creative Director
2011 - 2012
I was brought into AOL / Huffington Post Media Group to help improve this property visually and functionally. I’ve worked on building a stronger design team, establish the missing design process and create better communication between tech, edit and design departments. Some of the projects that I was responsible for include the election coverage, the iPhone app, the Huffington Magazine, a new site wide navigation and various social experiences.
HuffPost, an online news aggregator and blog, publishes content on politics, entertainment, world news, sports, and technology.
Raised $37,000,000.00 from RRE Ventures.
Education
Bachelor of Communication Design
2002 - 2008