# Kyle Turman > Design Leader / Pizza Chef Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kyleturman World Wide Web Mad Scientist. I like to help make machines work a little better with people and help people work a little better together. ## Work Experience ### Member of Design Staff @ Anthropic Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area First full-time product designer at Anthropic, designing AI products that put safety at the frontier ✨ ### Independent Product Designer @ Unknown Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 Worked with a handful of early stage startups doing design work, consulting, and strategy. ### Director of Product Design @ Retool Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Led the core product design team to make improvements on self-serve funnel in a product-led growth motion, established new product design career ladder, leveled up design culture and critiques, oversaw first design explorations into AI code complete, and tried to make building internal tools just a little more snazzy. ### Sr. Director of Product Design @ Slack Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Led a team of designers and design technologists to make the user interfaces of Slack more scalable, innovative, and accessible though systems, prototyping, brand-in-product, and more. ### Sr. Staff Product Designer @ Slack Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Led design explorations of the next iteration of the Slack Platform to help customers better enhance their Slack workflows through low-code and no-code integrations. Previously worked on Slack's growth pillar to drive deeper new user comprehension and increased top of funnel conversion through overhauls of onboarding and sign in experiences. ### Product Design Manager @ Dropbox Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Managing the Design Systems and Mobile Experience teams. In collaboration with the brand team, helped distill and infuse the Dropbox brand into a new flexible design system that could scale with Dropbox’s brand architecture and fast growth. ### Staff Product Designer @ Etsy Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Brooklyn, NY Led the Design Systems team to collaborate on a brand refresh that returned Etsy to its roots and reinforced product love. Infused the brand into reusable components for an effective rollout of the brand refresh that enabled fast marketplace growth and improved brand saliency. ### Product Design Manager @ Etsy Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Brooklyn, NY Worked with design leadership to help develop processes and structures to grow and mentor product designers in the Seller Services organization. Assisted in the creation and launch of a complete redesign of of the seller tools platform to scale for the next phase of Etsy seller tools. Led the redesign of the Etsy order and shipping manager for sellers. ### Senior Product Designer @ Etsy Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Brooklyn, NY Worked with another designer to design specialized seller tools like the Etsy Shop Updates: a way for sellers to showcase their work and behind the scenes content inside of Etsy. ### Product Designer @ Etsy Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Brooklyn, NY Helped design a new tool for creating and managing listings for Etsy sellers on the Seller Services team and contributed to the budding design system. ### Designer & Developer @ Fuzzco Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Charleston, South Carolina Area Worked with brands such as General Mills, Google, and Mailchimp to design and develop intricately branded marketing and product experiences on the web. ### Freelance Interactive & Product Designer @ Turman Design Co. Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Oklahoma City, OK Worked with small businesses and startups to realize their digital vision, including taking the digital product Fubelly, from zero to market. ### Interactive Director @ Foundry Collective Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 Led the interactive initiatives of a small design studio, working with brands large and small to develop a clear and unique digital presence across the web and mobile surfaces. ### Art Director @ Give a Goat Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 Branded and marketed the non-profit's story to the world. Documented on the ground efforts, led the creation of campaigns, and created a custom, recurring online donation system that resulted in a significant increase in recurring donations from some of our largest donors. ### Graphic Designer, Marketing @ Oklahoma Christian University Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 Worked with the marketing department of a local university, helping create print and digital campaigns. ### Interactive Developer, North Institute for Teaching and Learning @ Oklahoma Christian University Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Edmond, OK Designed and developed internal applications for students to use, including one of the first university iOS apps to ever hit the app store. ### Counter Intelligence Agent @ Geek Squad Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 I set-up and repaired PCs, Macs, and other devices as well as helped install home theatre systems and HD-DVD players (RIP HD-DVD). ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kyleturman - Portfolio: http://turman.co --- Source: https://flows.cv/kyleturman JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kyleturman/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13