Timoni West

Director of Product Management

2023 - Current

Scout

2017 - 2023

Vice President, Emerging Tools

2022 - 2023

Focusing on how to make creative tools even more accessible to more people.

Vice President, Augmented & Virtual Reality

2020 - 2022

Director of Product, Augmented and Virtual Reality Tools

2018 - 2020

Lead advanced product development for spatial computing tools, defining product scope and definition, significantly growing the team across three offices, and coordinating across operational lines. This includes working with revenue, platforms, ML, cloud, and the core engine team to align on our roadmaps, productization paths, and key areas of integration. It also includes nurturing external-facing relationships, meeting with developers and major hardware and software manufacturers to learn about use cases, areas of overlap, and potential partnerships.

Head of the Authoring Tools Group, Unity Labs

2015 - 2018

Alongside prototypes and advanced product development, I built a team of cross-disciplinary technologists working on multiple immersive projects, from virtual prototypes to augmented reality demos. I advised and helped define Unity’s immersive strategy, alongside the core engine and platforms leads, and continued to work with strategy, marketing and revenue on productization models.

Founder

2011 - 2015

Founded Department of Design, a studio focused on helping startups bringing their products to life. Lead design & strategy for mobile apps, desktop apps, consumer products and pro tools. Key clients: Samsung, Airtime, Airbnb, Burner, IFTF, SF Incubator, Causes.

Cofounder and Senior VP, Design

2014 - 2014

I joined on as a co-founder to help build a company with a simple mission: allowing communities to invest in their local businesses. This is an area of finance deeply close to my heart as a small-town Midwesterner, and changing investment laws meant investments of this type would be legal for the first time since the 1930s. Like most startups, it was ahead of its time: legislation was delayed and the company was forced to pivot.

Senior Product Designer

2013 - 2014

Like Flickr, was incredibly excited to work on a product I'd used since early beta. Focused on product functionality and long-term concept work for the future of Foursquare and Swarm. Key projects: onboarding redesigns, concept iPad apps, reinstating gamification, and introducing what is now a key part of Foursquare and Swarm: tracking your location without seeming creepy.

Cofounder & Creative Director

2011 - 2013

Recollect is a backup application that lets you save and search Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram photos, check-ins, and tweets. I joined up with two former colleagues, both engineers at Flickr, and designed & scoped the product. Though it was solvent, we never marketed it much, and in 2014 we decided to lay Recollect to rest for now...but let us know if you'd like to bring it back to life.

Senior Product Designer

2008 - 2011

Everything from branding to copy to UX at Flickr. It was great to finally work on a product I'd been using for years: highlights include redesigning the homepage for the first time since 2007 (!) and completely revamping the Upload feature. You can still see the work we did—things like lasso and multi-image select—today; now it's typical web functionality, but back then it was cutting edge.