Brandon Dement
    Brandon Dement

    Brandon S. Dement

    Product leader and agile coach in Austin, Texas

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    About

    Experienced product management professional with expertise in digital products, design systems, and agile methodologies. Skilled in leading teams, driving process efficiency, and implementing agile transformations. Proven track record in developing and executing product roadmaps, improving time-to-market, and coaching teams in agile practices.

    Experience

    Nov 2020 – Mar 2025

    Sr. Manager, Digital Product Management & Operations

    Charles Schwab

    • Product lead for the Schwab design system, a web and mobile platform design system
    • Operations lead for the end-to-end workflow, driving process efficiency through agile transformation
    • Reduced idea-to-production time from 9 months to 6 weeks
    • Managed a team of product owners and UI/UX designers
    • Established strategic briefings as a practice to accelerate delivery
    • Implemented Cost of Delay prioritization

    Apr 2019 – Apr 2020

    Product Owner and Agile Coach

    Safran Passenger Innovations

    • Product owner for OEM engagement with Boeing and Airbus
    • Owned the roadmap and backlog for the OEM/vanilla product
    • Core feature development across the full stack, hardware to UI
    • Coached and mentored three development teams, the product owner team, and leadership
    • Developed a Scrum and business agility training program
    • Developed and coached Cost of Delay

    Sept 2016 – Apr 2019

    Sr. Manager, Product Owners & Development

    Western Digital Corporation

    • Managed a team of Scrum product owners for the marketing technology team
    • Oversaw the mar-tech Agile Center of Excellence
    • Served on the Enterprise Business Agility team as a lean-agile coach
    • Developed learning pathways for agile teams
    • Created workshops on agile principles, leadership, Scrum, Kanban, and scaling organizations

    June 2013 – Sept 2016

    Product Line Manager, My Cloud

    Western Digital Corporation

    • Organized product segments, target market, and product strategy for WD My Cloud consumer products
    • Engaged in business development to add third-party capabilities to the product line
    • Executed product development and release in both product definition and agile product owner roles
    • Conducted market research to create ROIs for products
    • Developed strategy for strategic OEM products

    April 2010 – June 2013

    Quality Product Manager

    Western Digital Corporation

    • Responsible for reporting, tracking, and driving software problems and fixes worldwide
    • Led the level 3 / SQA support team for WD branded products
    • Managed the quality reporting program, including reporting to executive management
    • Implemented a defect tracking system for customer support
    • Monitored customer satisfaction and drove user experience improvements

    Projects

    Schwab Design System

    Web and mobile platform design system with components, patterns, documentation, and templates.

    Design systems, UI/UX, product management

    Agile Transformation

    Process improvement initiative that reduced idea-to-production time from 9 months to 6 weeks.

    Agile, Scrum, process improvement

    Expertise

    • Product roadmaps
    • Project management
    • Lean and agile
    • Team management
    • Product quality
    • SaaS CRM design (Salesforce)
    • Certified Scrum Professional
    • Certified Scrum Developer
    • Scrum Product Owner certified
    • BCS Agile (VFQ)

    Education

    Bachelor of Business Administration

    National University, Costa Mesa, California