# Phil Vander Broek

> AI Design @ Superhuman

Location: Oakland, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/philvanderbroek

## Work Experience
### Head of Design, Superhuman Go @ Superhuman
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Product Design Manager, AI @ Airtable
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
Led the design team that redesigned Airtable with AI so users can easily create custom apps, workflows, and agents.

### Co-Founder, Chief Product and Design Officer @ Dopt
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
Co-founded Dopt, a product adoption experience platform used to build better product onboarding, AI assistance, and announcements.  Used by Superhuman, Reforge, Productboard, and more.  Raised $5M from Unusual Ventures and Designer Fund.  Acquired by Airtable.

### Head of Growth and Business Platform Design @ Dropbox
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021
Led the Growth and Business Platform teams—a multi-product pillar comprised of 3 managers and ~15 ICs. Responsible for acquisition, activation, upsell/cross-sell, subscription, messaging, and internal tools experiences.
Directed team responsible for hiring practices across the design org (product design, research, content, and design ops). Defined product design career ladder for product design org.

Senior Design Manager • 2020-2021
Design Manager • 2018-2020

### Designer in Residence @ Sutter Hill Ventures
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, CA
Worked across Sutter Hill's early-stage portfolio companies on all things design, including product design, product definition, brand, and strategy.

### Design Director @ Trifacta
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California
Managed the product design and research team creating products to help users clean and analyze messy data. Responsible for design strategy, delivery, craft, talent, and culture across the company

Product Design Manager • 2015-2016
Product Designer • 2013-2015

### Bridge Design Fellow - Design Management @ Designer Fund
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
Bridge is a professional development program for design leaders.  Participated in Design Management program, focusing on the best ways to manage creative practices and teams as a design leader.

### Product Designer @ Splunk
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area
Redesigned Splunk’s core log analysis product including Search, Reports, Dashboards, and Alerts.

### Software Developer @ Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Designed and developed a data visualization product to display various forms of data over time based on location.


## Education
### BA in Computer Science
DePauw University

### MS in Human Computer Interaction
Iowa State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/philipvanderbroek
- Portfolio: https://www.dopt.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-13