# Matt Bond > Principal Designer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/mattbond 20+ years experience designing and scaling incredible companies. Now focused on building 0-1 early stage companies through design. ## Work Experience ### Advisor @ Clarify Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco, CA ### Principal Designer @ Clarify Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco, CA ### Head of Design @ HUMAN CAPITAL Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Incubating new companies within the firm. ### Principal Product Designer @ Retool Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States - Created Retool Database with Sikan He. Design, product management, and some frontend development - Grow and scale design through recruiting and design tooling systems ### Principal Product Designer @ Quizlet Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, CA Special projects ### Design Director, Adoption Pillar @ Asana Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, CA - Manage a team of design managers and designers (8 total) by mentoring and creating growth opportunities for those on your team - Partner with peers in PM and engineering to strategize and define pillar goals, objectives, roadmap, and processes to ensure projects are well defined and high impact - Coach teams across the pillar to successfully navigate the product development process of new features and iterations of an award-winning product - Connect the dots across experiences and teams to create a cohesive customer experience - Ensure team members are creating high quality work that delights our customers, helps our teams build more efficiently, and meets company objectives - Collaborate with design leadership to evolve our process, tools and systems to ensure we’re creating great, consistent work - Establish team rituals that ensure long term health and team cohesion - Partner with Design Leadership and recruiting to expand the team from 7 to 25, including sourcing candidates, interviewing candidates, and onboarding new employees Responsible for various teams and initiatives including: - Core experience - First experience (onboarding) - Monetization - Enterprise scaling - In-product queues ### Product Design Lead/Manager @ Dropbox Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Previously led and managed the File Collaboration design team in San Francisco. - Responsible for working with other File Collaboration leads to help the teams in File Collaboration strategize and execute on a product plan that supports Dropbox’s broader initiatives. - Accountable for supporting the File Collaboration designers in tactically and strategically connecting their work, and in shipping strong design work that meets goals and agreed upon deadlines. - Supports efforts to recruit and hire world class product designers. - Accountable for connecting File Collab design work within and across pillars. - Identifies opportunities within and across pillars where product teams can work together to connect UX and/or strategy. - Supports designers in collaborating with eng and product to create alignment. - Advocates for a world class user experience among File Collab efforts. - Fosters healthy and collaborative relationships between design, product, and engineering. ### Design Lead, Growth @ Atlassian Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Leading design for the growth team ### Design Lead - Design Systems and Guidelines @ Atlassian Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Sydney, Australia I was the original creator of the Atlassian Design Guidelines (design.atlassian.com) which was the most successful project in the company in 2012-2013. These guidelines were the core driver to standardize and harmonize the 10-12 products that Atlassian sells to customers. I eventually ran this initiative/team like a product, coordinating releases with developer APIs, getting 10-15 product designers to contribute and evangelize the benefits of design guidelines inside the company and at conferences. Atlassian Design Guidelines - https://atlassian.design ### Senior Product Designer - Bitbucket Server @ Atlassian Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Sydney, Australia ### Product Designer - Bitbucket Server @ Atlassian Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Sydney, Australia I started as the 5th person on the design team and helped grow it to over 100 people when I left 4 years later. I was the designer of Bitbucket Server for the first 2 years playing a lead role in creating the product vision and executing design work for 13 public releases. Bitbucket Server - https://atlassian.com/stash ### User Experience Designer @ M&C Saatchi Australia Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Sydney, Australia I worked as a UX designer and senior digital producer across national campaigns for Optus, Qantas, Austrade and Purina. I developed wireframes, created user stories, managed designers and developers to hit deadlines, estimated costs and timelines, managed external clients and mentored younger members of the team. ### Designer and Developer @ MAD Media Group Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 | Newcastle and the Gold Coast, Australia I wore a few hats at Mad Media while maintaining my main role as front-end developer and user experience designer though pitched projects and managed designers/developers and budgets. I lead accounts in Queensland for Surfers Paradise Tourism and developed infrastructure for the development of the company, HTML/CSS frameworks, source control integration and customised CMS applications. ### Designer/Web dev @ Freelance (Self employed) Jan 2003 – Jan 2007 ## Education ### Bachelor of Communication University of Newcastle ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mattbond21 - Portfolio: https://www.mattbond.com.au --- Source: https://flows.cv/mattbond JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mattbond/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13