# Monica Powers > Mother of Mascots Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/monicapowers Currently creating mascots and IP --- 15 years experience building early-stage companies from education, to A.I., to finance. --- First designer at ClassDojo ($1.25B). While there, I worked on almost every product feature, marketing/social campaign, and brand decision to grow the user base from 5K to 50M users. Today ClassDojo is used by 95% of all K-8 schools in the U.S., and in over 180 countries. --- - ClassDojo (edtech), Head of Brand and Product, first designer - Hum Capital (fintech, AI/ML), CPO and Head of Design, first designer and on leadership team - Cheeky Brands (UI/UX agency), Founder - Unsupervised (b2b, AI/ML), Brand and Product Lead, first designer - Dimeadozen.ai (AI) exited ## Work Experience ### Founder @ Mascot Jan 2023 – Present We build characters people love... and the playbooks, systems, merch, and IP to back them up. ### Head of IP @ ClassDojo Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 ### Co-Founder - Exited @ DimeADozen.AI Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 ### Co-Founder @ QuickGame World Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 ### Brand Consultant @ ClassDojo Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ### CPO + Head Of Design @ Captec.io Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York, United States ### Founder @ Cheeky Brands Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 Tired of the same personality and branding for every company, Cheeky Brands was created to make companies exciting, memorable, and emotionally resonant. ### Product + Brand Lead @ Unsupervised Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Boulder, Colorado Unsupervised helps your team find hidden insights in your complex data. They have built the first AI based on unsupervised learning, which automatically discovers the most important patterns in your data without requiring human guidance or supervision. ### Art + Brand Director @ ClassDojo Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 Focused on scaling growth, helping take the company from 5,000 to 50 million users. Developed features including the parent and student user experiences, the iOS and Android apps, and dozens of features. Amongst other projects, I led brand strategy to create the style and monsters used to define the company today. The monsters were used in connection with Stanford and Angela Duckworth to teach over 15 million kids about empathy. ### Head Designer @ ClassDojo Jan 2012 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco ### Creative Director @ Airy Labs Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Palo Alto ## Education ### BA in Design UCLA Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 ### Mountain View ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/monicapowers - Portfolio: https://mascotti.studio/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/monicapowers JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/monicapowers/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25