EXPLORATION D / INDEX — CW&T + RSMS LINEAGE · PAPER WHITE · INTERNATIONAL ORANGE · INTER + PLEX MONO
Chad EngleCE/INDEX

I rebuild design orgs & raise the bar.

the short version. The long version is three records down, metrics first.

Director of Product Design at GoDaddy. Fifteen years from agency craft to platform scale — product design, design systems as infrastructure, and leading teams through the AI transition. Classically trained, terminally hands-on.

Work — the index

3 RECORDS · METRICS FIRST
CE/W-01

BoomTown

Zero-to-launch, multi-tenant real estate platform under MLS/IDX compliance constraints.

Product craft
CE/W-02

Design System as Infrastructure

The org-leverage story: building the machine that does the work.

Org leadership
CE/W-03

Airo

Speed + ambiguity
RoleDirector of Product Design
OrgGoDaddy
TimeframeTK
TeamTK
Customer onboarding
Super BowlCampaign

* Every project here opens with a record like this one — role, team, outcomes — before any storytelling. If you have two minutes, the records are the tour.

Writing

3 ESSAYS · CANONICAL VERSIONS
CE/E-01

The System Is the Infrastructure

TK
CE/E-02

The Divergence Tax

TK
CE/E-03

The Floor Is Rising

TK