# Michal Simkovic

> Head of Design at Mercor

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michalsimkovic

Designer, Advisor & Accidental Investor
Specializing in design in hyper-growth environments

## Work Experience
### Head of Design @ Mercor
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA
* Building a SEAL Design team to support Mercor’s growth (1,000% in 2025)

### Head of Design @ Copy.ai
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025
* Acquired by Fullcast (2025)
* The first commercial application of GPT models (pre-ChatGPT)
* 567% ARR growth FY24
* Backed by Sequoia, Craft, and Wing Ventures

### Head of Design @ Around
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
* Acquired by Miro (2022)
* Next Big Thing / Experience Category winner
* Video calls for Remote Teams (without Zoom fatigue)
* Extra large scope (native macOS, Win, Linux, iOS, Android and all browsers)
* All done in-house with a tiny but mighty design team of specialists

### Design Advisor @ Around
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020

### Director of Design @ HackerRank
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, California, United States
* Built the design org ground up (product & brand)
* Led and managed designers on-site and remotely across 2 continents
* Established design processes for product & marketing org
* Helped grow the developer love brand (10M+ developer community)

### Design Lead @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Palo Alto, California, United States
* Founding designer of the AWS Design System 
* The most financially significant interface redesign ($100B revenue)

### Co-Founder @ Color Tiger
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Palo Alto, California, United States
* Android & iOS Apps with seven-digit grossings
* 300%+ Kickstarter goal (and delivered)

### Head Of Design @ Circle - Local Social App
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto, CA
* YC W11 company (a16z, SVangel, Naval Ravikant, Scott Cook)
* Circle became #1 most downloaded app in App Store and Google Play (12M+ downloads)

### Art Director @ ZARAGUZA Digital
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Slovakia
* Top digital agency in Slovakia (part of Ogilvy Group)
* Clients include Microsoft, T-mobile, Peugeot

### Senior Product Designer @ MONOGRAM Technologies
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Slovakia
* Designer on various large scale digital projects
* Clients include VUB bank, TV JOJ, Orange

### Product Designer @ MONOGRAM Technologies
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 | Slovakia

### Webdesigner @ InterWay
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006


## Education
### Master's degree in Engineering physics
Slovenská technická univerzita v Bratislave

### Stanford Continuing Studies in Design Execution
Stanford University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/musho
- Portfolio: https://musho.sk/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13