Harvard Business School Online

Head of Design at Gem

- Designed foundational systems, frameworks, and tools for product teams to communicate with Netflix members.
- Innovated proprietary tools for content management, enhancing Netflix Studio's efficiency.

Netflix

Product Designer

Founded Shape, a two-sided platform for designers and startups. Helping them find the best in each other through design interviewing prep, coaching, and community.

Designed and built an entire user platform from scratch using AWS, React, and a lot of late nights.

Shape

Founder

As Gem's first design hire, I was entrusted with integrating and establishing the role of design in the company.

- Established and led the product design process, team, and strategy.
- Achieved a unicorn status for the company, reaching a $1.2 billion valuation.

Head Of Design

- Key figure in autonomous transportation design, reducing curation costs by 900%!
- Developed a web platform for fleet management, reducing vehicle onboarding time by 85%.
- Designed and launched Lyft's first web-based rider platform.

Lyft

-  Led mobile platform design, enhancing user feedback and aligning global product teams.

Atlassian

Worked with a diverse, multi-faceted team of designers, strategists, engineers, and researchers to create products that make the world more open and connected.

• Designed a new, unified Ads Manager platform for 2.5 million advertisers
• Shipped dozens of new, creative ways for Facebook users to express themselves
• Led design on a powerful camera effects platform for billions of creators world-wide
• Built a foundational design system for the Facebook Profile surface
• Collaborated with a global team of designers and researchers across Facebook, Messenger, Ads, and more
• Kick-started Facebook's internal design tool efforts with low-fidelity concepts
• Led much of Facebook's overarching culture of design by leading workshops, hosting public design lectures, an creating resources at facebook.design

"Tanner has been one of the most prolific designers on the team... a very thoughtful and collaborative designer." — Greg Lindley, Facebook Design Manager.

Facebook

I began working at CLEARLINK as a Content Strategy Director, leading a building team to design and develop world-class content for large national brands

• Led a team of designers, engineers, writers, and strategists to create world-class marketing content
• Helped break ground on entirely new marketing initiates for global companies like Comcast and AT&T
• Created marketing collateral featured by The New York Times, Buzzfeed, Kottke, AdWeek, and more
• Scaled the content strategy team from two to 12
• Started creative group workshops at the company to drive more creative thinking

"Tanner has a diverse set of creative skills that makes him a valuable contributor to any project. In fact, when we had large new projects, Tanner was often asked to lead them. " — Tim Dilworth, former VP of Marketing at CLEARLINK.

CLEARLINK

Content Strategy Director

Co-founder and design director for UAO, a visual design studio specializing on systems design, branding, digital marketing collateral, and interface design.

Clients included Franklin Covey, Kainjow Software, GOOD Inc., HP, Factive Media, Applied Scholastics Academy, Singing Success, Equinox Design, MAC Cosmetics, GOOD, Free People, Ancestry.com, and more.

UAO Agency

Co-Founder

Worked on freelance identity, web, and print design for businesses around the world.

• Logo, web, and print design
• Provided design and brand marketing consulting
• Built modern, standards-based web experiences
• Managed a large array of ongoing clients and projects

Tanner Christensen