# Rémi Charreau

> Design Engineer covering both design and front-end, end-to-end. Specializing in complex B2B SaaS — simplifying dense products and shipping interfaces that are functional and polished.

## About

- Location: Lyon, France
- Currently: Design Engineer @ Vibe.co
- Contact: remi.charreau@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/remicharreau
- GitHub: https://github.com/RemiCharreau
- Twitter: https://x.com/RemiCharreau

## What I Do

### Product Design
Complex B2B interfaces from concept to polished UI — no handoff. In Figma.
- User flows & wireframes
- UI design & prototyping
- Design systems & component libraries
- Design tokens & theming

### Front-End
Production-quality implementation of what I design.
- Component architecture
- Animations & micro-interactions
- Responsive & accessible layouts
- Performance optimization

### Growth
Design and build of the surfaces that drive conversion. Statsig & Looker.
- Landing page design & build
- A/B test setup & analysis
- Onboarding & activation flows
- Funnel audit & optimization

## Work Experience

### Vibe.co — Design Engineer (Jan 2023 — Now)
SaaS B2B. Progressed from product designer to Design Engineer to Growth — taking on increasing ownership across product, codebase, and marketing surfaces.
- Product design — UI mockups in Figma for the core product
- Design Engineer — implemented designs with Next.js, React, TypeScript, Shadcn & Framer Motion
- Built the first Creative Generator (video ads creator) in partnership with a colleague
- Onboarding flows for new clients
- Public site (vibe.co) & landing pages

### Hexa/eFounders (Cohort) — Design Engineer (2022)
eFounders / Hexa — one of Europe's most prestigious startup studios. Shipped the first version of a B2B SaaS loyalty platform, owning the entire frontend.
- Back-office interface for brand teams
- White-label customer-facing platform

### invoxia — Head of Product Management (2020 — 2021)
Hardware & SaaS B2B. Led two tracks: 0-to-1 GPS tracker launch and improvement of the existing SaaS platform.
- GPS tracker — roadmap & launch
- B2B SaaS platform improvements

### DentalMonitoring — Product Manager & Designer → Head of Design (2017 — 2020)
MedTech SaaS B2B. Embedded with a mobile team of 5 developers as both Product Manager and Designer to fully redesign the patient-facing scanning experience.
- Full redesign of the mobile scanning experience
- Integrated ML algorithms into the patient scanning flow
- Managed the mobile team roadmap & delivery
- Designed the ScanBox — a physical hardware device

### SimpliField — Product Manager & Designer (2016 — 2017)
SaaS B2B. Product design and feature delivery on a retail execution platform.

### Freelance — Designer / Developer (2011 — 2016)
Websites and mobile apps for 27 clients across 55 projects — design and code.
- Websites built with CMS and JavaScript
- Mobile apps in Swift

## Selected Work

- CSS-only 3D skewed tile background that reacts to the active category, paired with a recolored command palette for search. (2026)
- Onboarding flow with hover and selection effects designed to create delight early in the experience. (2024)
- B2B landing page featuring a multi-beam heartbeat effect and a custom iOS-style integrations showcase. (2025)
- Video ad creator with a custom video player, timeline scrubbing, and auto-generation with editing capabilities. (2024)
- A modal shown after the first campaign launch to add a moment of delight. (2023)
- SaaS for custom loyalty and e-commerce programs, with advanced branding customization requiring deep Figma and front-end color work. (2022)
- Personal SaaS for building a Notion-like document calculator with Excel as the backend for calculations. (2021)

## Learning

- 2025 — Animations.dev — Online course by Emil Kowalski (https://animations.dev)
- 2022 — Refactoring UI — Book by Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger (https://www.refactoringui.com)
- 2021 — How To Write Unmaintainable Code — Book by Roedy Green
- 2020 — TypeScript — Online course by Maximilian Schwarzmüller (udemy.com)
- 2020 — Next.js (beginner) — Online course by Maximilian Schwarzmüller (udemy.com)
- 2019 — The Design of Everyday Things — Book by Donald Norman
- 2019 — React.js — Online course by Maximilian Schwarzmüller (udemy.com)
- 2018 — (Design) Sprint — Book by Jake Knapp
- 2017 — Atomic Design — Book by Brad Frost (https://atomicdesign.bradfrost.com)
- 2016 — Designing Interfaces — Book by Tidwell, Brewer & Valencia
- 2016 — The Lean Startup — Book by Eric Ries
- 2015 — Swift — Online course by Lynda.com
- 2011 — JavaScript — Online course by Lynda.com
- 2007 — Flash & ActionScript 3 — Book