Charlie Weston

Charlie Weston

Product design leader in Chicago

About

📍Growth Design Lead at Atlassian focused on building awareness, activation, and ai-powered experiences across flagship products

Work Experience

2023 — Now

Design Lead, Confluence Growth

Aug 2023 — Present

  • Drove #% growth rate across Confluence’s Land Growth customer journey (discovery, signup, onboard, and first purchase) in 2023

  • Led 15 IC designers and 3 managers, across multiple smaller teams, through growth design best practices, workshops and recurring rituals

  • Partnered closely with leadership and product leads to build roadmaps, define OKRs, and develop strategies that leverage personalization + Atlassian Intelligence (AI)

  • Contributed to the program’s increased velocity and overall design quality

Design Lead, Confluence Growth

Aug 2023 — Present

  • Design lead and Co-Product Owner for Atlassian’s Migration Program, driving awareness of Server End-of-Support and Cloud Migration activation

  • Built personalization strategies and experiences that increased customer activation
    Partnered with Product and Marketing leads in developing quarterly roadmaps

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  • Managed a small group of Design and Product interns

2021 — 2023
  • Design lead and Co-Product Owner for Atlassian’s Migration Program, driving awareness of Server End-of-Support and Cloud Migration activation

  • Built personalization strategies and experiences that increased customer activation

  • Partnered with Product and Marketing leads in developing quarterly roadmaps

  • Managed a small group of Design and Product interns

2019 — 2021

Design Lead, Hedge Fund Services ( Nov 2019 - Jan 2021 )
— Worked across 9 product and engineering teams to redesign Northern Trust’s Hedge Fund Services platform; resulting in improved performance, functionality, and usability ( 90% of internal users said experience had ‘greatly improved’ )
— Led cross-functional workshops educate teams on UX best practices for scaling data-dense apps across Web + Mobile properties; in addition to advocating for accessibility, scrum frameworks, and usability testing
— Unified the platform’s design language via Northern Trust’s Design System and contributing +12 shared components and patterns that other teams adopted

Design Lead, Data Direct ( July 2019 - Nov 2019 )
— Drove redesign of a data-set focused product, built within MS Excel’s third-party plugin ecosystem, to support clients aggregating large data sets.

2021 — 2021
  • Built net-new flows + strategies to increase JSM, JSW, and Confluence trial activations by 30% and generated a 7% revenue increase optimizing existing flows

  • Authored thought-leadership for internal replication and scalability