# Geoff Dowd > Principal Designer | Design Leadership @Adobe, @TuneIn, @Cameo, @Whatnot Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/geoffdowd A user interface designer with a formal graphic design education. Operational leader as well. From bespoke design studios to tech titans, I work with teams and technologies of many kinds; I have seen a lot. I mentor designers weekly, and continue to build a high-value network. As a hands on designer I specialize in 1.0 and partner with inventors and investors alike. I live in San Francisco. I create for the love of it. I work with those who value design. ## Work Experience ### Principal @ Geoff Dowd, Design. Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, CA My studio. Focused projects with emerging technology and talent: • Principal Product & Experience Designer – from prototypes to complete interfaces • Student of new technologies, immediately put into practice with experiments • Creative Direction, Design Strategy, and Design Management • Advisor to founders as a Founding Designer • Recruiter and mentor to top creative professionals ### Director, Design @ Whatnot Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, CA $11.5B valuation live-stream shopping platform enabling anyone to turn their passion into a business: • Established the Growth & Games Ecosystem Design discipline • Design leadership by example: 70/30 ratio: Design Management / Individual Contributor • Figma, Statsig, etc. deep in all modern tools for design, ops, and user testing • Mentor to rising talent, peer to design industry vets, and cross-functional partner to all • Liaison and mentor to emerging Chinese designers and their evolving product design practice ### VP, Head of Product Design @ Cameo Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States Cameo is the world's leading fan engagement platform and one of Fast Company's Top 50 Startups: • Established Cameo Design as Cameo achieved $1B valuation during Series B to C hyper-growth • Recruited *the* LA emerging-talent product design team, beating out "the tech titans" for talent • Exec Player/Coach: Hands-on Figma design with the team, PM/PMM/Eng/HR/FP&A partnership • 3MM+ Magical Moments served up through joyful product experience design and new technology • Reported to the co-founder & CTO ### VP, Head of Product Design, Brand & Creative Studio @ TuneIn Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California With 75MM MAU, TuneIn is the most widely used audio platform in the world: • Constructed an award-winning holistic Design team – Product, Brand, and Content Design • Embedded TuneIn Design cross-functionally for partnership, camaraderie, and impact • Strategic design-led initiatives: Corporate Identity, Product Design Systems, Distribution, and EAP's • First-ever LIVE streaming integration with Siri and Apple HomePod • Designed SF HQ and Burbank Studios to foster creativity and execution • Crafted the TuneIn Executive Rules of Engagement (our code to work by) • Reported to the CEO, Sequoia Capital, IVP, General Catalyst, Comcast Ventures, and others ### Principal Designer @ Adobe Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, CA Adobe (Mkt cap 101B) is the vanguard for creative professionals and their digital tools: • Led the creation, development, and manufacturing of Adobe's first-ever devices, "Ink & Slide" • A precision cloud pen and digital ruler for the iPad with award-winning industrial design, ME, and EE • Ink & Slide advanced the art of precision drawing on the iPad, preceding Apple Pencil by one year • Adobe hardware inspired multiple new iOS apps and enabled the creation of drawing API's and SDK's • 35 U.S. Patents for Utility and Design • Reported to VP of Adobe Design with oversight from Adobe's CEO, CTO, CMO, and CPO ### Director, Experience Design @ Adobe Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, CA Led the Design & Drawing segment, including 1.0 mobile, 1.0 desktop, and flagship apps. As touch interfaces began to play a greater role in the creative professional's life, we designed and shipped Creative Cloud Mobile apps for Apple iPad, the iPhone, Apple Watch, and large scale touch screens including R&D for Miscrosoft Surface. ### Senior Experience Design Lead @ Adobe Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 Design focus: R&D in moving Photoshop and Digital Imaging to the Cloud. ### Creative Director @ Odopod Jan 2006 – Jan 2009 | San Francisco, California, United States The bespoke digital design & development agency, Odopod delivers full-cycle product design, brand creative, and web/software engineering while exploring new design technology. Clients include Nike, MTV and RedBull among others. ### Senior Visual UI Designer @ Macromedia, Inc. Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | San Francisco, California, United States Designed Flex-based apps for Fidelity Investments and other FinTech, taking the next step in putting interactive design in motion through Flash. ### Senior Designer @ frog design Jan 2000 – Jan 2005 | San Francisco, California, United States Worked directly with Hartmut Esslinger on strategic projects. Played a key role in establishing frog's digital media practice during the coming of age of web & interactive design. Designed interactive for Ford's first EV initiative, future-forward GUI for Johnson Controls, and Comcast's first website among others. ### Designer @ Mixman Technologies, Inc. Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 | San Francisco, California, United States Realistic GUI designer for Music DJ software apps. Perfected the art of UI design in Photoshop, before the term "skeuomorphism" was a thing. Subsequently, an early adopter of "flat UI" well before iOS. ### Designer @ Sapient Jan 1999 – Jan 2000 | San Francisco, California, United States Joined design legend Clement Mok’s Studio Archetype, soon to be acquired by Sapient. First job out of school. ### Design Intern @ Studio Archetype with Clement Mok Jan 1998 – Jan 1998 | San Francisco, California, United States Design Intern responsible for AT&T rebranding, PacBell Park 1.0 brand website, Chipotle beverage packaging, and Sapient corporate identity design. ### Graphic Design Intern @ David Curtis Design Jan 1997 – Jan 1997 | San Francisco, California, United States Graphic Design Intern responsible for Ghirardelli branding - Illustration, packaging, typography studies, and more. ### School Artist @ Santa Clara High School Jan 1990 – Jan 1994 | Santa Clara, California, United States Anointed school artist: Yearbooks, T-Shirts, Stickers, Benches... lots of Bruins drawn. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science in Applied Art & Design with a concentration in Graphic Design California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo ### Public school 🇺🇸 Santa Clara High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffdowd - Website: geoffdowd.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/geoffdowd JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/geoffdowd/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-07