Ozark Christian College

Product Design Leadership - Ex Lyft, TripActions

Alameda, California, United States

Leading and designing for Slack's design system: Slack Kit.

Slack

Principal/Lead Product Designer - Design Systems

Lead the Travel Experience and Design Systems teams based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

-  Managing and Directing the day to day efforts of product design including project management, roadmap planning, career coaching, stakeholder management, etc.
-  Designed and launched Know Before You Go functionality scaling the ability to provide real time awareness of pandemic requirements and travel restrictions between destinations.
-  Lead the planning and delivery of our design system across web and mobile. Goals include updating the system foundations to meet WCAG 2.1 requirements and ensuring all components support i18n needs.

TripActions

Director of Product Design

- Worked on the Design Systems team to build a world class design system used across all aspects of Lyft’s web products, external and internal.
-  Rebuilt the Design Systems contribution process, opening the system up to all parts of Lyft and increasing contributions by 8x.
- Expanded Lyft Design system on web to support over 70 consumer and in-house operational products.
-  Established design and research within Lyft's in-house data platform teams, leading a team to ship Amundsen and Flyte as open source products
-  Partnered with senior executives to define and execute a strategy to improve employee productivity through information and resource discovery.
-  Lead the effort to grow the Product Design department's onboarding processes ensuring all new hires to the function would be able to productively ramp up to their new roles.
-  Managed across Lyft's driver experience and Lyft's rental car program, Express Drive.

Lyft

Manager/Staff Product Designer

- Lead and grew the fully distributed and remote team of product and marketing designers from 5 to 11 full time designers establishing the functions career track, culture, and processes.
-  Lead the effort to established a front-end Design System (Leap) to help promote consistency and reduce front-end code debt, reducing the amount of new front-end code it took to release features by over 80%.
-  Established the creative direction to unify Treehouse’s illustration and motion design approach across video, marketing, and in product.
-  Lead design for the Techdegree program, establishing over a 6 new computer science certification programs.
-  Lead a cross-disciplined team of designers and developers to build and release features core to the Treehouse learning experience that included over 300 classes and 200 workshops across 23 topics reaching over 50k students.

Treehouse

Director of Design

- Responsible for the design of Treehouse Workspaces, a web-based IDE that is used inside the Treehouse core experience to help students learn to easily write code. Lead to over 100k unique instances being created within the product.
-  Assisted with illustration and creative direction for various videos courses.

Product Designer

Responsibilities included defining and executing the creative direction for various client projects. The work itself ranged from project to project and included account management, branding, illustration, site layout, front-end code, and copy editing. I was also responsible for conceiving the name and over all identity of the agency and left to pursue product design full time.

Matt Spiel

Matt Spiel