About

Twenty-five years of product design.
Now I build too.

Twenty-five years designing enterprise products — at IBM, StreamSets, Charles Schwab, and through my own consultancy. Then vibecoding changed everything. I can now take an idea from sketch to shipped product without waiting on a team. That changes what's possible.

25+
Years Design
6+
Products Shipped
Ideas in queue
0
Devs hired
Timeline
2000
Started in UX design
2007
Founded independent consultancy
2015
Senior Design roles at enterprise scale
2025
Discovered vibecoding — shipped first products with AI as build partner
Now
Senior Design Manager @ IBM — Watson.data / AI
Work History
IBM
2024 – Present
Senior Design Manager — watsonx.data Integration

Defined the architecture and end-to-end experience for unifying four data products — delivered the design roadmap 2x faster than scheduled.

StreamSets
2019 – 2024
UX Lead

Led the design process for the pivot from open-source to SaaS, helping grow revenue from $6M to $60M — and to a $524M acquisition by IBM.

Jonathan Brink Design
2007 – Present
UX Lead Consultant

End-to-end, human-centered design engagements for Charles Schwab, Sony, HP, Sunkist, Edelman, and Caltrain.

Infinx Healthcare
2017 – 2019
UX Lead

Designed the AI-driven healthcare product that carried Infinx from services company to product company.

LiveHive
2015 – 2017
VP Product / Senior UX Designer

Pivoted a sales tool into an industry-leading sales-enablement platform — licensing grew 10x.

Foundationary
2014 – 2015
VP Product / Senior UX Designer

Designed a stealth-mode marketplace for nonprofit funding from inception through its business funding milestones.

Let's work together.

Looking for a product designer who can also build? I take on select consulting engagements.

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