Michael Evans
Product Strategy & Management Leader

A product strategy, design & development buffet of goodness

Before Launcher
Founder - Research, Strategy, UX, Design, & Marketing
Lyft.com
Research, Strategy, Client & Project Lead
Casa Bonita & The Founders Club
Research, Strategy, Analytics, UX, Project Management, Client & Project Lead
Virgin America Website & App
Research, Strategy, Project Management, Client & Project Lead

Career

Michael is a results driven, product leader with over fifteen years of experience. In his last role, the Director of Product Management at Raw Materials, building out its Product Management practice. While at Raw Materials him and his teams shipped successful products & services for Peacock, Peddle, Alexander Marchant and Casa Bonita. He is currently open to new full time & contract opportunities.

Prior to Raw Materials, Michael he started and sold Before Labs, which included a product (the Before Launcher) that Fast Company named one of their best apps of 2019. And before Before, Michael was one of the first employees at Work & Co. He helped to start the Work & Co Portland office, where he led their product management team. During his time there he also led and launched a variety of projects with awesome clients that include: Lyft, YouTube, Aesop, Mozilla, Adult Swim, Alaska Airlines, and Virgin America.

Michael is a multi-disciplinarian, experienced in user research, UX design, product strategy, graphic design, front end & back end technical architecture, data analysis, product marketing & operations.His work frequently exceeded stated business goals & it has won numerous industry awards.

Timeline Highlights

Raw Materials & Elephant
Director of Product Management & Product Strategy
August 2021 — March 2025
Before Labs
Founder
June 2018 — March 2020
Work & Co
Senior Director, Product Management
Sept 2013 — May 2018
Various
Business Analyst & Consultant
Oct 2002 — April 2018