_config.yml

# Welcome to Jekyll!
#
# This config file is meant for settings that affect your whole blog, values
# which you are expected to set up once and rarely edit after that. If you find
# yourself editing these this file very often, consider using Jekyll's data files
# feature for the data you need to update frequently.
#
# For technical reasons, this file is *NOT* reloaded automatically when you use
# 'jekyll serve'. If you change this file, please restart the server process.

# Site settings
# These are used to personalize your new site. If you look in the HTML files,
# you will see them accessed via {{ site.title }}, {{ site.email }}, and so on.
# You can create any custom variable you would like, and they will be accessible
# in the templates via {{ site.myvariable }}.
title: Owen Williams
email: owen@char.gd
description: > # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
  Owen Williams is a product design manager leading a team building tools developers love at Stripe in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He's also a developer, writer, and maker.
url: "https://owenwillia.ms"
baseurl: "/" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog
client_availability: false
twitter:
  username: ow
author:
  twitter: ow
  picture: /images/itme.jpg
social:
    name: Owen Williams
    links:
      - https://twitter.com/ow
      - https://github.com/ow
      - https://instagram.com/findingnewo
      - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZeXk3K3Ow8Peu_KnDjxjhQ
logo: /images/card.png
twitter_username: ow
github_username:  ow
telegram: https://t.me/owenwil
instagram: https://instagram.com/findingnewo
location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
services:
  - title: Leadership
    description: I've lead multi-disciplinary UX teams that get things done, made up of product designers, content designers, and researchers.
    icon: far fa-rocket
    color: green
  - title: Product
    description: Building a design system, internal marketing or a new product? I've helped companies big and small with words and code to get it done.
    icon: far fa-laptop-code
    color: pink
  - title: Technical Product Go-To-Market
    description: Developers can smell marketing a mile away. Get your tools in the hands of the right people, with authentic marketing that doesn't put them off.
    icon: far fa-bullhorn
    color: yellow
  - title: Content Design
    description: I've helped companies from Stripe to Spotify make their products easier to use and understand with high-quality content design.
    icon: far fa-pencil
    color: blue

career:
  - title: Product Design Manager
    company: Stripe
    description: I lead product design for Stripe’s developer experience, docs, and AI. We push the boundaries of developer tools to help our users focus more on growing their business, rather than building. 
    icon: "images/career/stripe.jpg"
    color: stripe
    dates: 2022 - Present
  - title: UX Manager
    company: Shopify
    description: I led a large UX team working on developer tools at Shopify, from API design to the CLI, and deep in the weeds of extensibility. Mostly recently, I lead the custom storefronts group working on Hydrogen and Oxygen.
    icon: "images/career/shopify.png"
    color: shopify
    dates: 2019 - 2022
  - title: Founder / Freelancer
    company: Charged
    description: I helped brands with content, UX strategy and more. Working with a group of companies in every stage to help them get the most from their resources, and grow products with great copy.
    icon: "/images/career/charged.jpg"
    color: charged
    dates: 2017 - 2019
  - title: Digital Director
    company: VanMoof
    description: <p>Built the digital marketing organization from the ground up to focus on data-driven decision making and moved app + web development in-house.</p><p>I led the engineering team, built out a digital marketing + voice strategy, and helped launch the brand into new countries (including Japan) online.</p>
    icon: "/images/career/vanmoof.png"
    color: vanmoof
    dates: 2016 - 2017
  - title: Editor
    company: The Next Web
    description: Telling stories about the people behind technology, writing news and breaking down complex topics for wide audiences. Managed implementation of performance-focused overhaul of the site, slashing loading times 60 percent.
    icon: "/images/career/tnw.png"
    color: tnw
    dates: 2013 - 2016
  - title: Infrastructure/Devops Engineer
    company: Xero
    description: Engineer on critical infrastructure team responsible for scaling the platform to millions of users. Supported product team to debug issues on the platform, optimized performance and built out a deployment pipeline for high availability.
    icon: "/images/career/xero.png"
    color: xero
    dates: 2011 - 2013

projects: 
  - title: Charged
    description: Independent technology blog and newsletter, keeping people like you up to date with the latest trends.
    color: charged
    action: Read now
    emoji: ⚡
    url: https://char.gd/
  - title: Write Together
    description: Learn to write through the power of habit-building. It's a social platform that encourages writing anything.
    color: call-me-maybe
    action: Try it now
    emoji: 📝
    url: https://writetogether.space
  - title: Podcast
    description: A tech podcast with a difference. Three hosts, casual conversations about the state of the industry.
    color: podcast
    action: Listen now 
    emoji: 🎤
    url: https://char.gd/podcast

nav:
- title: About 
  url: about

- title: Blog
  url: blog

- title: My work
  url: work

- title: Contact
  url: contact

collections:
  work:
    output: false
  now:
    permalink: /now/:path/
    output: true

autopages:
  collections:
      layouts: 
        - 'now.html'
      title: 'Posts in Now :coll' # :coll is replaced by the collection name
      permalink: '/collection/:coll'
      
plugins:
  - jekyll-seo-tag
  - jekyll-sitemap

# Build settings
markdown: kramdown
permalink: pretty
exclude: [
  "node_modules",
  "LICENSE",
  "package.json",
  "README.md",
  "Gemfile",
  "gulpfile.babel.js",
  ".babelrc",
  ".gitignore",
  "sass",
  "scss",
  "validate"
]