Spencer Reynolds
Product Design Leader | UX for Cloud, SaaS, PaaS, Developer Tools, Kubernetes, LLMs, AI Agents | Inventor 35+ Patents | Wharton MBA
- Role
- Principal Design Manager - Azure Compute & Developer Tools Teams at Microsoft
- Location
- Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Spencer Reynolds
Design leader, product designer, and inventor with an interest in technology, business, and entrepreneurship. My work applying user-centered design at Microsoft, IBM, P&G, and J&J(Ethicon) has driven improved customer and business outcomes through close collaboration with engineering, marketing, and product management.5+ years managing teams, 10+ years leadership experience, 10+ years designing user centered products.Created, launched, and scaled multiple, end-to-end PaaS product experiences (with triple-digit YoY revenue growth) for IBM Cloud as part of their hybrid cloud strategy including-IBM Cloud Satellite-Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud-IBM Kubernetes ServiceCurrently manage the \"Azure Developer Experience - Compute & Tools design teams\" focused on helping developers easily deploy cloud-native applications. Restructured both teams to focus our resources on revenue and growth-generating services during the macroeconomic turmoil 20••••24. Led and supported my design team and our multidisciplinary partners through the launch of multiple products, claiming additional marketshare by growing our 3+ billion dollar portfolio faster than the broader cloud market.
Experience
Principal Design Manager - Azure Compute & Developer Tools Teams
Jun 2024 — Present · Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US
Leading both the Azure \'Compute\' & \'Tools\' Design Teams (remotely managing 10 designers - 8 UX + 2 Content) in the CoreAI org (previously Developer Division). The \'Compute\' portfolio includes Azure App Service, Serverless Functions, Container Apps, Static Web Apps, SRE Agent, and more. The \'Tools\' portfolio includes Github Copilot for Azure, VS Code Extensions, Azure SDK, Azure Developer CLI (AZD), and more. We partner with over 50 Product Managers and hundreds of Engineers to improve the developer experience on Azure by building end-to-end experiences that bridge developer tools to compute consumption resulting in over 3 billion dollars of annual revenue.
Education
The Wharton School
Master of Business Administration - MBA
Brigham Young University
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Product Design
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