# Max Schoening

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

Planet scale computing for mere mortals. I'm incompetent all around. You really don't want to hire me.

## Work Experience
### Product Design @ Notion
Jan 2025 – Present
Rows, columns, and robots.

### Product @ Magic
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025

### Advisor to the CEO @ GitHub
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
🤷🏼

### VP Design @ GitHub
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
I gave up on counting Octocats. Too many. Unsure what's next.

In the meantime trying hard not to distract the teams designing GitHub Codespaces, the next GitHub Issues, GitHub Mobile, GitHub Discussions, and the GitHub marketing websites. Will report back how it's going.

P.S: Also, dark mode.

### VP of Product Design @ GitHub
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Still counting Octocats.

### Sr. Director of Product Design @ GitHub
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
I primarily count Octocats. Also, created GitHub Actions with some great people. Acquired by Microsoft.

### Product @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | ::1
Putting the server into Serverless at Google (Google Cloud Run).

### Founder @ Canvas
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco
Co-founder at Canvas. Realtime collaborative wiki (Google Docs for hackers). Acquired by Google.

### Product Design @ Heroku
Jan 2009 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
Ran product design at Heroku. Sold to Salesforce in 2010.

### Founder @ CloudApp-Inc
Jan 2009 – Jan 2014
CEO and founder of CloudApp. Simple file sharing. Grew the startup from 0 to 2MM users. Sold in 2014.


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/max-schoening
- Portfolio: https://max.dev/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13