# Andrew Watterson > Designing Platforms at Retool Location: Oakland, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/andrewwatterson I’m here to help designers and engineers ship great products together, whether leading a design practice or writing production CSS. I’ve worked on a wide range of product teams: startups like Meebo and Asana, consulting for enterprise clients at Pivotal Labs, and working alongside Googlers on the AMP Project. ## Work Experience ### Staff Product Designer @ Retool Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Staff Product Designer @ Airtable Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Airtable allows non-engineers to create powerful databases and design front-ends for interacting with them. I led design for Interface Designer, Airtable’s tool for creating focussed “apps” for interacting with your data. We shipped a string of major improvements to the product, including the first affordance for customizing individual record pages. In response to a strategic focus on making Interface Designer easier for less sophisticated users, we redesigned the way pages are structured and customized to make it easier for builders to get started with common functionality, faster. ### Senior Product Designer @ Samsara Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Samsara helps trucking companies manage their fleets using GPS, dashcams, and diagnostic sensors. I helped design and beta-launch one of the most ambitious redesigns the company had ever taken on: a cohesive system for configuring and receiving alerts triggered by a wide range of driver behaviors or diagnostic signals. I also maintained Samsara’s design system and component library. ### Designer, AMP Project @ Google via Adecco Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, CA AMP is a web framework in use on over a million sites. I am the designer on the team tasked with building up a suite of components that makes it easy to implement strong UX patterns that are fast, responsive, and accessible. My role was originally focussed on research and design for components like autocomplete and carousel, but I’ve grown to help define what projects AMP should pursue long term. This has included everything from talking to developers to better understand AMP’s strengths, brainstorming UX opportunities in new verticals, and collaborating with other web platform teams. ### Senior UX Designer @ Pivotal Labs Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Pivotal Labs teaches its clients the culture and techniques of agile software development by making products while sitting literally right beside them. I was the first designer on what turned out to be a highly successful suite of apps for the Air Force. I designed and launched a complex logistics tool that saved $20K a day in fuel costs and cut headcount and planning time in half. As that success spawned more Air Force projects, I trained a handful of Airmen into functional designers, cheerled the wider design team, and developed a library of standard components that developers and designers on 8 teams used to build products faster. ### Design Instructor @ General Assembly Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area General Assembly runs tech bootcamps for people looking to change careers. I co-taught a 3 month, full-time intensive class for aspiring designers. I delivered over a dozen lectures and mentored 29 students through their first client projects, team environments, and job searches. Students rated me 4.75 out of 5. ### Product Designer @ Asana Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 Asana is a collaborative task list and project management tool for teams. I was the second design hire and worked with product managers and engineers to define features, work through interaction and visual designs, test code prototypes, and ship production CSS. I worked on the mobile app, growth-focused A/B experiments, and large and small improvements to the web product, including interaction changes for our 2015 redesign. ### Senior Interaction Designer @ meebo Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 Meebo was a web-based instant messaging client and embeddable social sharing utility for thousands of websites. I was the first interaction design hire and worked with product managers, visual designers, and business stakeholders on projects for our main web app, embedded utilities, mobile apps, ads platform, and internal analytics tools. ### Web Apprentice @ Analog Method Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 Acted as the point person for several clients and implemented detail-level polish on subcontracted projects. Developed a successful interaction design for longtime client ARTnews. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Digital Media Design University of Pennsylvania ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andrewwatterson - Portfolio: http://www.andrewwatterson.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/andrewwatterson JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/andrewwatterson/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13