# Matt Baird

> Digital Product Designer

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

Designer and usually smiling human who helps build digital products for humans who may or may not be smiling.

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Designer @ Clover
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Lead Product Designer @ Code and Theory
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
Worked directly with Clover Hospitality on their Checkless Payments product.

### Senior Product Designer @ Academia.edu
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
Shipped improvements to Academia.edu's publishing platform, enhancing both the reader experience and manuscript management workflows for authors, editors, and internal staff.

### Senior Product Designer @ Origin
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
Helped the team redesign the product to support a rebrand, with a focus on design system typography and new user onboarding.

### Senior Product Designer @ DoorDash
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
Led design strategy & execution for Business Profiles, collaborating with teams across the org to drive its long-term vision and MVP development. Also shipped multiple high-impact features for a B2B admin tool that gives enterprise customers the ability to provide DoorDash perks for their employees.

### Lead Product Designer @ YML
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Remote
Split time between First Republic Bank (RIP) on their corporate products and Kinship (kinship.co) on a 0-1 mobile app for pet owners.

### Senior Product Designer @ Routable
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Initially led design for accounting software integrations before transitioning to lead design for international payments - a strategic opportunity requiring a full product overhaul. Also supported cross-functional teams in revamping the product’s information architecture through OOUX facilitation.

### Lead Product Designer @ Y Media Labs
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Product Designer @ Y Media Labs
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked alongside an embedded full-stack team with Kaiser Permanente to redesign their consumer-facing iOS & Android apps. Led Covid-19 related projects and day-of-appointment experience improvements. Supported shipping a new design system, as well as exploration, research, and testing for an information architecture overhaul.

### Product Designer – Consumer @ Yelp
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California
Shipped many successful experiments that acquired new consumers, increased consumer LTV, and improved session success for newly activated consumers. Collaborated with 3 designers on a large research effort as lead prototyper, and facilitated several interviews and tests to add personalization features to Yelp.

### Designer – Restaurant FoH Management Product @ Yelp
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California
Split responsibilities between Product and Marketing Design with the Reservations team, helping to grow active restaurants from 2,000 to 14,000.

### Interactive Designer @ Torque Creative
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Anderson, SC
Designed digital marketing campaigns and helped maintain several large sites (including a social network). Redesigned and built a system for HTML emails to be modern, responsive, accessible, and easy to use by non-technical coworkers. Learned a significant amount of front-end development knowledge, git basics, and how to work in a Ruby on Rails dev environment.

### Graphic Design Intern @ The Mariner Group
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Columbia, South Carolina Area
Split time between marketing and visual design for Mariner's situational awareness software. Redesigned the company website using Wordpress to better position Mariner's brand as a leader in their industry. Created low-fidelity prototypes, specifications, and iconography, as well as printed brand collateral.

### Graphic Design Intern @ Gasque Marketing and Advertising
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | West Columbia, SC
The start of my design career, 100% marketing design (web & print)


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Media Arts
University of South Carolina


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mcbaird
- Website: http://mattbairdhasaportfol.io

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Last updated: 2026-02-23