Jered Odegard
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Experience
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Mento
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United States
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Professional Training and Coaching
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1 - 100 Employee
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Product Coach
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Feb 2023 - 11 months
Trusted mentor and coach for highly skilled product managers and product designers. Only the top 0.5% of coaches are accepted into Mento.
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ZEAL
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United States
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Professional Training and Coaching
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Founder
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Jan 2020 - 4 years
Seattle, WA ZEAL offers performance coaching, group workshops focused on leadership and rapid innovation, and executive retreats to facilitate team building. • Clients from top companies including Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google • Coached many product leaders into their first manager, director, and VP level roles • Accelerated many career transitions into product design and product management • Over 50 designers have landed their first job with my help in the last few years
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Flyhomes
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United States
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Real Estate
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200 - 300 Employee
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Head of Product and Design
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Mar 2022 - Oct 2023
Seattle, WA I oversaw the consumer, internal, and mortgage product verticals. I managed all product managers, design managers, product designers, and user researchers at the company. Head of Product and Design (December 2022 - Present) Head of Product Design and User Research (March - December 2022)
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Redfin
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United States
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Real Estate
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700 & Above Employee
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Head of Product Design
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Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
I reported to the CEO and managed the entire product design and user research departments. I left the role to pursue my own company.
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Senior Product Design Manager
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Jul 2018 - Nov 2019
Seattle, WA I was responsible for the design teams that created our internal tools, RedfinNow, and Redfin Mortgage. I worked closely with my multiple director counterparts in product management and engineering across 12 teams. I managed 12 product designers, 1 product design manager, and hired 18 designers in total. • Scored the highest manager effectiveness and team engagement across product and engineering • Wrote product design management career ladder up to VP • Introduced and drove… Show more I was responsible for the design teams that created our internal tools, RedfinNow, and Redfin Mortgage. I worked closely with my multiple director counterparts in product management and engineering across 12 teams. I managed 12 product designers, 1 product design manager, and hired 18 designers in total. • Scored the highest manager effectiveness and team engagement across product and engineering • Wrote product design management career ladder up to VP • Introduced and drove adoption across product for prototyping and rapid innovation process • Hosted all product department off-sites and skill building workshops • Coached senior leaders on public speaking skills as the de facto presentation coach
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Product Design Manager
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Oct 2016 - Jul 2018
Seattle, WA I led internal tools infrastructure for Redfin's 3,000+ real estate agents. I worked closely with my director counterparts in product management and engineering across several teams. I managed 8 product designers. • Grew the team rapidly from 2 to 8 in six months • Created Redfin's first design system and component library • Wrote the company's first design career ladder for individual contributors • Kept our product backlog full through 4-month understaffing drought
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Senior Product Designer
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Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
Seattle, WA I joined as an opportunistic hire. I spent most of this time working with executives on long-term, vision work and optimizing our tour checkout experience. I designed the first date time picker and tour checkout experience on any real estate website, which led to multi-digit conversion lift and a current industry standard.
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Expedia Group
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Product Designer
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Jun 2014 - Aug 2015
Bellevue, WA
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DigiPen Institute of Technology
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United States
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Higher Education
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300 - 400 Employee
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Lead Software Engineer
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Nov 2012 - Jun 2014
Redmond, WA
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Software Engineer
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Nov 2011 - Nov 2012
Redmond, WA
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User Experience Designer
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Aug 2009 - Jun 2014
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ITSoft
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Dec 2009 - Nov 2011
Redmond, WA
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IT Support Specialist
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Aug 2009 - Dec 2009
Redmond, WA
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Internet Sales Manager
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Aug 2008 - Aug 2009
Sarasota, FL
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Salesman
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Jun 2007 - Aug 2008
Sarasota, FL
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System Administrator
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Jun 2006 - Jun 2007
Sarasota, FL
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Education
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Florida State University
Computer Science -
State College of Florida-Manatee-Sarasota
Computer Science, 3.85 -
Suncoast Technical College
Computer Science, 4.0