# Christopher M. Dorner > Product Design | Design Program Management | UC Berkeley PM Certified Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/christophermdorner Product Design | Project Managagement | UC Berkeley PM Certified Product Designer with 10+ years of overall design experience and 6+ years experience of leading product design in fast-paced fintech and civic tech environments. I specialize in both hard design and design program management. My work bridges leadership with project execution and problem solving. Currently: #OpenToWork | Product Design/PM Roles Location: Oakland, CA / Open to Remote and Hybrid in the Bay Area ## Work Experience ### Founder & Principal Designer @ Christopher M. Dorner Jan 2019 – Jan 2025 • Lead UX/UI design for FinTech, Healthtech, and other startups from ideation to prototyping. • Conduct research and stakeholder interviews to align design with business goals. • Create comprehensive UX architectures, including wireframes, sitemaps, and clickable prototypes. • Develop design systems to ensure intuitive, consistent, and memorable user experiences. • Deliver iterated high-fidelity prototypes for seamless developer hand-off and market readiness. ### Senior Product Designer, Growth @ Domain Money Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States •Led design efforts embedded within the Growth team, scaling product features to boost engagement. •Drove design initiatives across user tools, mobile, and web for WealthTech product. •Enhanced UX by refining interfaces for seamless transitions between new and legacy systems. •Delivered high-quality UI solutions and optimized marketing email designs. ### Senior Product Designer, Manager @ UpTogether Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area • Developed DesignOps systems that improved iteration times and boosted team productivity. • Led project execution from Research to Launch, managing teams to deliver impactful solutions. • Collaborated with executives to prioritize features, balancing business goals with user needs. • Demonstrated advanced understanding of industry compliance around AML and KYC. ### Product Designer, Individual Contributor @ UpTogether Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area • Audited and updated a FinTech payments system for robustness and modern usability. • Integrated flows of modern APIs such as Plaid and Stripe to facilitate payouts on traditional rails. • Implemented DesignOps to elevate product and UX maturity within the organization. • Built a cohesive design system that aligned UX/UI patterns with brand identity. • Collaborated with research teams in conducting user research and interviews. ### Product Designer - Contractor @ Maslife Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | London Area, United Kingdom • Incrementally redesigned website for this NeoBank, integrating accessibility and long-term usability. • Applied color theory and layout design to enhance visual appeal and user experience. • Developed a web-based onboarding flow, showcasing user experience design skills. ### UX/UI Design Consultant @ Project Tyrone Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Washington D.C. Metro Area Project Tyrone is an early stage HealthTech start-up that came out of an accelerator program at Johns Hopkins University. The team had a list of requirements they needed built into a mobile phone agnostic clickable prototype to present to potential stakeholders. The mobile app we designed hosts several features which will fill a gap in the American Healthcare system. In order to create a best-in-class UX architecture. I started out by gathering data from Interviews with top industry professionals. I then conducted research into direct and adjacent fields of healthcare services in order to utilize effective methodologies and create artifacts to help guide the project. After, I was able to define the system architecture within which the mobile app would function which helped me to create, maintain, and use a design system to promote an intuitive and familiar yet, memorable but distinctive user experience. Finally, I designed a low-fidelity black-and-white prototype to migrate into a hi-fidelity model and wireframed clickable prototype for developer hand-off. ### UX/UI Apprentice @ Mobile App Hero Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Atlanta, Georgia Narrate and discuss clients needs and find the intersections with users needs to create compelling UX strategies and UI designs that accomplish stakeholders goals. Collaborate and participate in agile environments with developers, designers, and team leads to take products from ideation stage to launch. Use modern UX artifacts and methodologies to complete projects including: research, competitive analysis, wireframing, rapid prototyping, and usability testing. ### UX/UI Designer Consultant @ Kuvvrd Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 Kuvvrd is an early stage start-up created by travelling professionals for travelling professionals. The application supports an on-demand courier business model. I began this project by analyzing existing solutions and identifying opportunities for optimal market entry. I further Interviewed stakeholders and managed expectations about the correlation between business development and digital product design. Gathered data from clients and the market to build a comprehensive UX architecture. which included wireframes, site maps, and a black-and-white prototype. Delivered several iterated versions of Hi-fidelity clickable prototypes to hand-off to developers. ### Product Marketing Designer (Agency) @ Springbot Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Atlanta, Georgia Used skills in graphic design to create compelling digital assets using online tools and the Adobe suite to provide scalable, trackable value for eCommerce clients thereby generating over 15000USD in revenue for clients designing product newsletter emails. Provided strategy and consulting to clients based on data analytics and reporting on Facebook and in the Springbot product. Analyzed trends across channels, unified strategy and assets, and recommended best practices. Managed, created, monitored, and reported the Facebook Advertising Campaigns and Email Marketing Campaigns for 70+ Clients across verticals including: Fashion, Firearms, Vape + Tobacco, Food & Beverage. Managed, adjusted, and disbursed over 1200USD of Ad Spend per month on Facebook for a variety of clients across allowed industries including Women's Fashion, Home Goods, Health + Beauty, and Outdoor + Sporting. ### Intern @ 5Church Group Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Atlanta Provided auxiliary work in the sales and marketing department of 5Church restaurant group. Was based in Colony Square in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia. This location was the newest installation in a series of restaurants across the southeastern United States. 5Church group has locations in Charlotte, NC and Charleston, SC. ### Founder @ WAYC-0 (We Appreciate Your Co-0peration) Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Atlanta We Appreciate Your Co-0peration (WAYC-0) is a marketing firm I funded, founded, and creatively directed. We are a business-to-business organization that markets underground and emerging: visual, fashion, and musical artists in Atlanta, Georgia. ## Education ### Project Management UC Berkeley Extension Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 ### Product Management Stanford University Jan 2020 ### Economics University of Pittsburgh ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cmdorner - Portfolio: https://www.cmdesign.online/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/christophermdorner JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/christophermdorner/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25