Warren Lebovics
Founder of Pequity
Warren Lebovics
Founder of Pequity
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder | Compensation Technology Leader
2019 - Current
www.pequity.com Pequity is a new class of compensation management software that combines the familiarity and ease-of-use of a spreadsheet with the power of automation at scale. The world’s fastest growing companies trust Pequity to power their compensation programs - like Instacart, Canva, and Uber Freight. Founded by compensation and product design leaders fromcompanies like Google, LinkedIn, Instacart, Cruise and Sony, we’ve raised $19M with top tier investors like First Round Capital and Norwest Venture Partners. We’re on a mission to create equal pay and opportunity for all I lead the teams focused on product, design, tech, and customer experience.
Angel Investor
2022
Investing in innovative, early-stage technology companies like Merge, Rewind, and MorpheusOne.
Advisor, Product & Design
2017 - 2020
★ Acquired by Acto in October 2020 I provided product, process, design strategy and mentorship to the CoHealth team, working on connecting the dots in the health-tech industry.
Head of Design
2018 - 2019
★ Series A led by Sequoia Jumpstart connects talented and diverse early-in-career talent with top companies. I led and grew the design team, implemented processes for cross-discipline collaboration, established design systems and user research best practices, and set the design direction of all mobile, desktop, and other projects.
Lead, User Experience Designer
2018 - 2019
★ Promoted to people manager My team focuses on the discovery and distribution of content on LinkedIn. This is part of a larger strategy to foster an active community on LinkedIn, through meaningful conversations. Previously, I re-imagined the follow ecosystem on LinkedIn, introduced the Interest Feed experience, brought likes on comments and replies to comments to LinkedIn, and revamped who's viewed my profile. This was all designed for Desktop, iOS, Android, and Mobile Web.
Senior User Experience Designer
2017 - 2018
★ Promoted to "Senior User Experience Designer" from "User Experience Designer" ★ Acquired by Microsoft in December 2016 Most recently, I designed the Interest Feed experience. This includes topical feeds, tagged articles, and editorially curated storylines to help feed consumers hone in on relevant and topical professional information. This was designed on iOS, Android, Mobile Web, and Desktop. I now focus on reimagining the follow ecosystem on LinkedIn and the overall content/feed experience. Previously, my team brought likes on comments and replies to comments to the mobile and desktop experience, to foster high quality conversations on LinkedIn. This was designed on Desktop, iOS, Android, and Mobile Web.
User Experience Designer
2015 - 2017
★ Public announcement of acquisition by Microsoft in June 2016 LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, aiming to connect the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. I updated the mobile Who's Viewed My Profile experience, aiming to add more context and value surrounding people who view you. This was designed on iOS, Android, and Mobile Web. Collaborating with Russ Phillips, we designed the new notification experience, balancing brevity with information and readability. This was designed on iOS, Android, and Mobile Web. My team brought likes on comments and replies to comments to the mobile and desktop experience, to foster high quality conversations on LinkedIn. This was designed on Desktop, iOS, Android, and Mobile Web. Most recently, I designed the Interest Feed experience. This includes topical feeds, tagged articles, and editorially curated storylines to help feed consumers hone in on relevant and topical professional information. This was designed on iOS, Android, Mobile Web, and Desktop.
Bridge Fellow
2017 - 2017
Designer Fund Bridge program in design management.
Head Of Design
2014 - 2015
★ Acquired by LinkedIn in April 2015 Refresh helps deliver insights and create deeper connections with friends and colleagues. My job was to make the experience beautiful, intuitive, and user-friendly. With a co-designer, we led 10+ products from ideation to implementation, including but limited to: mobile product design, desktop product design, company rebranding, consumer product design, and enterprise product design.
Co-Founder & Head of Design
2012 - 2014
Our first application, Triggr, aims to eliminate barriers surrounding communication, connectivity, and usability across devices and platforms.
User Experience Designer
2013 - 2013
I had the privilege of designing a desktop app from start to finish. My work included: ideating and creating concepts for upcoming applications, building wireframes and low fidelity mock-ups to get a feel for how the application can look, designing high fidelity mock-ups and final visual polish based on feedback returned, working directly with developers to provide graphical assets, and presenting/selling all these features, ideas, and next steps to our team members in Waterloo, Madison, and Japan.
User Experience Designer
2012 - 2012
Working with the team behind Media Go enforced the importance of designing brand-compliant user interfaces. My role included constantly analyzing usability within the app, creating and updating features, conceptualizing future user interface trends, working directly with developers to assess feasibility, and ensuring that all these tasks met respective release dates.