# Benedict Copping > Professional Optimist at SoFi — Prev: Snapchat, Bumble, Titan Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/benedictcopping ## Work Experience ### Founder, Sandbox @ SoFi Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States Principal Designer and lead for a small, AI-enabled incubation team empowering CTO Staff to rapidly navigate go/no-go decisions on prospective product opportunities. Claude Code; Cursor; Gemini; Replit; Figma. Responsible for the creation of the team including opportunity identification, delivery of successful POCs, definition of budget and mandate, and influencing up into senior leadership for advocacy. ### Principal Product Designer, Financial Products @ SoFi Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco, California, United States Worked horizontally across all of SoFi's member-facing product teams to facilitate the creation of best-in-class experiences to help members get their money right, including Membership and Financial Products (Banking, Investing, Credit Cards, Insurance, Lending), and impacting SoFI's multi account, Crypto, and Stablecoin launches. ### Founder @ Pixel Grid Studio Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Product advisory for start and scale-ups. ### Head of Product Design @ Titan Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States A YC & A16Z-backed fintech start up democratizing access to the financial tools of the wealthy. Partnered with the founders to turn company strategy into delightful outcomes across design and product, including helping launch Titan's fastest growing and most successful products to date. Responsible for a dynamic design team of fluctuating size, from 3 to 12, including hiring and managing managers, and including product designers, brand designers, and researchers. Deeply involved in performance management, budgets, and hiring. Managed through two layoff rounds. Interviewed over 500 designers. Accountable for launching key initiatives from requirement gathering to project managing engineering squads, from running research to supplying partial design specs, and working with data to assess impact. Built and launched our most comprehensive design system at the time, completing a partial redesign including style, iconography, typography, and illustration within six weeks. ### Sn Staff Product Designer @ Snap Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Santa Monica, California, United States Worked directly with Evan Spiegel (CEO) and the executive team to discover, define, and ship innovative social experiences. Led the design strategy for the Stories and Creator Monetization verticals, both iterating and innovating the product with the help of Data and Research. Led the product vision for Snap’s first non-advertising revenue product, Creator Gifting, including pitching alternative revenue to Evan, running UXR, building monetization playbooks, and introducing two new digital currencies in-app. This evolved into the Snap+ subscription service. Led and managed design sprints addressing Snap’s most strategic priorities during COVID, with teams up to 12 from Design, Marketing, Strategy, Data, and Research. Facilitated significant organizational change including moving the team to Figma, developing task management rituals, building Snap’s first Design Systems, and advocating successfully to develop Snap’s UXR competency. ### Product Design Lead @ Bumble Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | London, England, United Kingdom Worked directly with Whitney Wolfe Herd (CEO), taking on responsibilities from the founding designer and working together up until IPO. Led the largest redesign of Bumble to date from pitching to shipping, resulting in double digit increases to engagement and revenue. Launched Bumble’s business networking feature, Bumble Bizz, and iterated our friend-finding feature Bumble BFF post-launch, driving significant brand awareness. Launched Bumble’s first micropayments features and iterated our subscription products, elevating Bumble from 0% to +50% group revenue in two years. ### Product Design Lead (Next Gen Products) @ Badoo Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | London, England, United Kingdom Managed a small team of three designers as leader for Badoo’s “Next Gen Products” group, including Bumble, Chappy, Huggle, and Lumen. ### Product Designer (Next Gen Products) @ Badoo Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | London, United Kingdom ### Founding Designer @ Yubl Ltd Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | London, England, United Kingdom Launched a Top 5 UK social app with an ex-founder of Playstation. Responsible for the overall app experience, including defining requirements and developing UX specifications for engineering handoff. Helped build a design team of 10 and a company of 70. Pitched the product on fundraising roadshows, helping us raise $20m, and created investment materials for these events. ### Industrial Design Intern @ Procter & Gamble Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Reading, United Kingdom ### Sales Associate @ Jack Wills | Aubin & Wills Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Richmond & Selfrdiges, both London ## Education ### MA in Innovation Design Engineering Royal College of Art ### MSc in Innovation Design Engineering Imperial College London ### MEng in ACGI, Mechanical Engineering Imperial College London ### Maths in Physics, Chemistry & Music Charterhouse School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/benedictcopping --- Source: https://flows.cv/benedictcopping JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/benedictcopping/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13