# Michael Atherton

> Staff Product Designer @ Socure

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

Experienced Product Designer with versatile experience in building products from the ground up, scoping out new features, building design systems, and auditing existing products and processes. With proven results in taking products and features from rough concepts to launch and then through refinement to enhance the user experience. 

Key Attributes & Skills:
-Thrives in ambiguity
-Team player
-User Interface Design 
-User Experience Design 
-Visual Digital Design 
-Mobile Interface Design 
-Design and Product Strategy 
-Design Process oriented - Design, Test, Build, Test, Implement, Release.
-Design Systems 
-Marketing Design / Social Media Marketing 
-Logo / Logo Animation

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer @ Socure
Jan 2025 – Present

### Senior Product Designer @ Socure
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025

### Product Designer @ Socure
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023

### Product Designer @ Berbix
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Creative Director @ XRay Tech
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Product Designer @ XRay Tech
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Our mission is to eliminate 1️⃣ billion hours of mindless work for humans 🙌. 

XRay.Tech is a fractional COO service enabling people to focus on creative, analytical, strategic, and thoughtful work, and building robots to help with the rest. 🤖

To put it simply: Humans should do mindful work, and robots should do mindless work.

### Freelance Designer @ Self Employed
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked with various clients such as: 
Becton Dickenson
Open IDEO 
Dose Dr. 
GYANT
Orthoscience
NBBj
Clubhouse SLC
Studio Banaa
Vinsol
Indivio 
Taptrust
Video Slick

### Digital Design Strategist @ NBBJ Design
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Creative Director @ Pre-Meds Without Borders
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
Overseeing rebranding, UX Design, and vision for the future of Pre-Meds Without Borders.

### UX Designer (Freelance) @ Indivio
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San
Collaborated with CEO and developers to build an online platform for launching Social Media Marketing campaigns. Designed: Information Architecture, User flows, Desktop Dashboard, UX features & interactions.

### UI/UX Designer @ DoseDr
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
Lead User Experience designer for Physician web portal. 
Lead User Interface designer for Physician web portal elements. 
Created Diabetes Physician MVP for shipping.

### Community Prototyper - Higher Eduction Challenge @ IDEO
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Food Waste Challenge Finalist @ OpenIDEO
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Services: User experience design, Ideation, Graphic Design.

### Designer @ Woods Bagot
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, California
Services: User Experience design, 3D environment design, Program and space planning.

### Designer @ Nilus Designs
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
Services: User Experience design, 3D environment design, Program and space planning.

### Intern @ Future Cities Lab
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013

### Student @ California College of the Arts
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013


## Education
### Master of Architecture (M.Arch.)
California College of the Arts

### Bachelors of science in architecture
University of Utah


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michael-atherton

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Last updated: 2026-03-30