FilmSlate
Driving impact from an ambiguous directive
FilmSlate is a curated indie film streaming platform whose trial-to-paid conversion rate had stalled at 32%, with leadership wanting it above 40% but no defined roadmap for how to get there.
Shane Reidy
Product Manager
Driving innovation by deeply understanding users and leading cross-functional collaboration with a focus on empathy and inclusivity.
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Great products begin with a deep understanding of people's goals, constraints, and lived experiences. For over a decade, I've worked across UX, engineering, and product roles, learning how thoughtful collaboration and technical awareness turn complex problems into intuitive, repeatable solutions. I care about building products with empathy, clarity, and intention, and about working with teams who push each other to do their best work.
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Experience
UX Engineer
Spent over a decade at Google building products for over 140m small businesses across Google Search, Maps and Shopping. Bridged design and engineering with contributions across the product lifecycle including prototyping, design system implementation, and user research. Delivered measurable impact including a 10x increase in engagement and a 60% reduction in customer support costs.
Dex
Product & UX Lead
A three-month freelance engagement at the earliest stage of a 0→1 AI recruitment startup. Shaped conversation design for an AI recruiting agent, explored multi-modal interaction patterns across voice, chat, and structured input, and ran moderated research with candidates. Developed a lean prototyping strategy, defined a deliberately manual MVP, and helped reshape the investor pitch from sprawling ambition to a fundable narrative — contributing to a $3.1M pre-seed raise.
Wildfire
Web Developer
A social media marketing platform that was acquired by Google for $450M in 2012. Built core product features including user account management, publishing and permissions workflows, activity audit logging, and message scheduling — as well as an internal developer UI toolkit. Working across Ruby on Rails, Angular, and Bootstrap, this role was the start of a 12-year journey that would eventually take me deep into Google's product ecosystem.
Current Toolkit
AI-native
- ChatGPT
- Claude Code
- Figma Make
- AI Studio
Design
- Figma
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Google Material Design
Engineering
- React
- Vite
- Astro
- Motion.dev
- Tailwind
About Shane
Having been surrounded by technology from a young age, I taught myself to build web and desktop applications long before I knew it would become a career. That same curiosity has driven everything since — with over a decade at Google leading UX Engineering, now progressing into a career-driven move toward Product Management, where I get to build a deep understanding of user needs and convert that into business results.
I'm currently enrolled on a Product Management career accelerator with King's College London, deepening my practice in product strategy, discovery, and data-informed decision making.
Outside of work, I recently qualified as a private pilot, gaining my PPL in the summer of 2025. I've already flown to France and the Isle of Wight — where I happened to fly overhead the Red Arrows routing back along the coast. I follow Formula 1 closely, drawn less to the spectacle and more to what the sport reveals about high performance, cross-functional collaboration, and real-time decision-making under pressure.
At home, I live a fairly simple life just outside of London with my partner and two golden retrievers. I grow my own fruit and vegetables — at home and on the allotment — and enjoy cooking most evenings.
I root for the underdog. I care about mentoring and opening doors for people of all abilities, and I'm drawn to work that has genuine social impact alongside commercial ambition.