# Gavin Johns

> Design at WhatsApp

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/gavinjohns

I'm Gavin, a product designer at Opendoor in San Francisco, cofounder of Architechie.

## Work Experience
### Product Designer @ WhatsApp
Jan 2025 – Present | Menlo Park, CA

### Product Design Manager @ Opendoor
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Growing and managing two teams of product designers, writers, and researchers on the core seller experience at Opendoor.

Launched two new seller products: Private and public listings.

### Product Designer @ Opendoor
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Scaled core seller product from 15 to 50 cities, launching new features to simplify the home selling process. 

Co-led design of multi-product experience to include buying and selling in a single surface area while implementing a new design system.

[2020-21] Sr. Product designer working on core seller product.
[2019] Product designer working on Opendoor Home Loans & ops tooling.

### Product Designer @ Kindred
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Contracted to build and launch MVP app.

### Co-Founder @ Architechie
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020
Architechie is a global network of people working at the intersection of architecture and technology. Architechie's braintrust of creatives and builders have been brought together by their shared excitement about the built world and the opportunity to improve it using technology.

Join us! architechie.org

### Design Advisor @ Freelance Product Design
Jan 2014 – Jan 2020
I help startups by offering MVP design services including: product definition, user research, design explorations through shipping, design systems, pitch decks, hiring, coaching, mentoring early designers, etc.

Companies advised:
- Kindred (launched MVP)
- Reddit (proof of concept)
- Jelly (qual research & improvements)
- Cobbler.io (hiring)
- Table.ai (mentoring design)
- Beam Dynamics (mentoring design)

### Product Designer @ Dealpath
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco

### Product Designer @ Autodesk
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017

### Architect @ 450 Architects Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Architecture
Georgia Institute of Technology

### Master of Architecture (M.Arch.)
Georgia Institute of Technology

### Master of City Planning (MCRP) in Urban Design
Georgia Institute of Technology

### Architecture and Urbanism
École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gavinpjohns
- Portfolio: http://www.gavin.design/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13