# Nate Clinton

> Design at DoorDash, x-Meta

Location: San Leandro, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nateclinton

I am a design and product leader with a diverse background and broad skill set. My professional experience spans the quantitative and qualitative, the machine and the human. I cut my teeth creating quantitative models studying financial markets, driving innovative new product initiatives at successful start-ups and large enterprises, and leading teams of product managers and designers in a wide variety of industries.

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer @ DoorDash
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Staff Product Designer @ Meta
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Product Design Manager @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Product Designer @ Meta
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Executive Director, North America @ Designit
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California

### Managing Director @ Designit
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco

### Managing Director @ Cooper
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, CA
As the studio lead, I help ensure we are doing interesting and ground-breaking work for our clients, that we nurture, inspire, and grow our exceptionally talented staff of designers, and that we tell our story to the world.

Member of the management team to negotiate and manage the acquisition of Cooper by Designit/Wipro in October 2017.

### Director @ Cooper
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, CA
Project lead and mentor to designers at Cooper. Managed and mentored teams engaged in design and strategy projects for clients such as Mozilla, Visa, and Google.

### Director of Product + Design @ BuildZoom
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
BuildZoom connects consumers with home renovation contractors — it harnesses the largest database of building permits and contractor information ever assembled to smartly match homeowners with the best contractor for the job.

Led research, product design, and product management, from seed round to Series A. Designed, tested, optimized, and developed new revenue models (subscription + commission), lead generation models, a building permit map/search, property profiles, customer service infrastructure, user ratings system, (SMS- and email-based) customer/contractor messaging platform, and contractor dashboard.

1-Yr results:
* 400% more renovation projects on the platform
* 350% revenue growth
* 2x organic search traffic
* $10m series A round

### Designer / Senior Designer @ Cooper
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
Research, strategy and design for dozens of clients across industries, including GE Healthcare, United MileagePlus, MindJet, and Google for Education.

### Director of Product Management @ Thomson Reuters
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
Creating a next-generation suite of portfolio management and research tools for institutional investors worldwide, from the ground up. Recruiting a team of product managers, interaction and visual designers. Using agile processes to maintain high quality with a globally dispersed dev team.

### Product Manager @ Thomson Reuters
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010
Designed UI and developed a product roadmap for market-leading web-based investment management software. Redesigned and re-tooled the StarMine equity screener. Designed and delivered a new system for in-house research collaboration at buy-side investment firms. Designed and delivered new versions of StarBox (a sell-side research workflow tool for investment managers) for Lotus Notes and the web.

### Associate Product Manager @ StarMine Corporation
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008
Designed and spec-ed new collaboration and workflow tools for StarMine's premium investment management products on the web. Among other things, I managed enhancements and roadmap for StarBox, an Outlook plugin combined with a web-based preference and entitlement engine to deliver and organize sell-side research reports to investors.

### QA Engineer @ StarMine Corporation
Jan 2005 – Jan 2007

### Senior Research Assistant @ Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Jan 2002 – Jan 2005
Collected, processed, monitored, and reported on a variety of banking and financial data using SAS, Excel, and other in-house applications. Co-authored empirical research papers in the areas of international finance and banking. Assisted economists with the preparation of analysis and graphics for special briefings to the Board of Governors.


## Education
### BA in Economics, Mathematics
Macalester College

### Cairo American College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nclinton
- Portfolio: http://cooper.com/people/nate_clinton

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Last updated: 2026-04-13