# Danny Keane > Founding team at Guild.ai - Principal Product Designer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/dannykeane I build stuff. High agency, founder-type. 15+ years working zero-to-one, turning ideas into products and companies. motto: talk less, build more. Highlights Led Jasper's enterprise AI vision. 2x enterprise ARR, Fortune 500 adoption. Scaled Titan from Series A startup to Unicorn. Built flagship products at YouTube from zero to billions of users. Employee #1 at Zesty (YC W14), delivery guys by day, building product at night. Acquired by Square. Indie-made Figma plugins with 130K+ installs. Open-source contributor with code running on Mars. Angel investor and advisor, backing category-defining founders. ## Work Experience ### Founding Team - Design @ Guild.ai Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA Building tools for the next generation of intelligent systems. Founding designer/engineer -- full-stack. ### Advisor / Design Partner @ Composition Ventures Jan 2017 – Present | San Francisco, CA Design leadership and advisory for early-stage startups -- hands-on across brand, product, and UX, not arms-length. Portfolio companies have exited to Square, DoorDash, and Atlassian, or raised substantial funding -- including Titan, backed by Andreessen Horowitz with $100M+. Selectively invest alongside advisory engagements. ### Fractional Design Partner @ Composition Ventures Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, CA Ventured into a full-time focus providing design leadership, advisory and R&D for early-stage startups. Core focus: AI, Engineering Infra, Tools. ### Principal Product Designer @ Jasper Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, CA Partnered with the C-suite to evolve Jasper from a gen-AI assistant into a multi-agent marketing platform adopted by Fortune 500 teams. Shipped canvas, agents, design systems, and enterprise collaboration tools. Directly contributed to 2x enterprise ARR growth and expansion into Fortune 500 accounts. ### Plugin Developer @ Figma Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, CA Built Figma plugins installed by 130K+ designers globally, including teams at Google, Facebook, Airbnb, and Apple. Flagship plugin "Redlines" focuses on design-to-dev handoff -- featured across leading UX publications as an essential tool for designers in the pre-ai era. ### Design Director @ Titan Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States Advised Titan's founders through Y Combinator and early growth, then joined formally as employee #12 to build the product and establish Titan's design function. Reporting to the CEO, built and led a multidisciplinary team across brand and product design. Shipped Titan Crypto, Titan Venture, Referral programs, and optimized investment flows -- scaling AUM beyond $1B and helping secure a $58M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, achieving unicorn status. ### Product Design Lead @ Google Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, CA Early designer on YouTube's Community team. Owned end-to-end design and launch of social engagement tools -- including Posts and fan interaction features -- now supporting 2 billion+ global users. Led YouTube Giving as a 20% project, enabling creators to raise over $10M during beta and establishing philanthropy as a core part of the YouTube ecosystem. Mentored designers across Google, facilitated global design sprints, and taught prototyping workshops at Google's UX conferences. ### Senior Product Designer @ Google Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Design Director (Founding Team) @ Zesty, Inc. Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, CA First hire. Built the design function and led product design from pre-seed through Y Combinator (W14), Series A, and beyond. Developed brand identity, established design systems, and shipped products across consumer, enterprise, and internal tools. The consumer app earned multiple "Best Food & Drink" features in the iOS App Store (2014-2015). Zesty raised $20M+ from Index Ventures, Founders Fund, Forerunner Ventures, and SV Angel, and was acquired by Square (NYSE: SQ, 2018) and DoorDash (NYSE: DASH, 2019). ### Open Source Contributor @ Bootstrap Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, CA Contributed to major front-end libraries, including foundations for CSS animations and retina display support in the Bootstrap framework. Contributions were used in the 2020 NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter mission. ### Product Design Lead @ Truphone Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | London, United Kingdom Built Truphone's first in-house product design team. Local calling and messaging anywhere, for consumer and enterprise -- across iOS, Android, and Blackberry. Worked directly with executives to shape product vision. Global launch unlocked $118M in additional funding for expansion. ### Product Design Lead (Founding Team) @ NEVERBLAND Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | London, United Kingdom Employee #4. Partnered with founders to build NEVERBLAND, a London-based startup studio. Led creative direction and hands-on design for consumer brands, esports teams, music labels, and early-stage startups. Managed a lean multidisciplinary design team, contributing to award-winning projects and designing a flagship SaaS product for the creative industry -- later acquired. ### Product Designer @ Copia Digital Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 | London, United Kingdom Led end-to-end client projects for a boutique studio serving asset management and financial services clients across Europe and North America. Shipped and maintained Copia's flagship white-label SaaS product, built custom front-end style guides, CSS frameworks, and reusable web components across popular MVC frameworks. ### Product Design Consultant @ Keane © Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 | London Area, United Kingdom Freelancing from high school. Web and UX design consulting for clients and agencies across Europe and North America. Built client network via online communities, early social networks, and design job boards (Dribbble, Behance et al.) Grew from solo practice to a small remote team. Notable clients: BBC, Y Combinator, Conversocial. ## Education ### Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies Y Combinator ### The Thomas Aveling School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dannykeane - Portfolio: https://dannykeane.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/dannykeane JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dannykeane/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13