Cory Watilo

Co-Founder

Tampa, Florida, United States17 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Lead designer at PostHog, enhancing user experience.
Co-founded successful startups acquired by major companies.
Extensive consulting experience in the automotive industry.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused UX/UI designer with a strong background in product design and consulting.

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Skills

Core Skills

User Experience DesignWeb DesignUser Interface DesignProduct DesignConsulting

Other Skills

WordPressTheme DesignSEOCSSGraphic DesignInteraction DesignInformation ArchitectureAdobe Creative SuitePhotoshopWire FramingUser-centered DesignGoogle AnalyticsCMSSocial MediaSocial Media Marketing

About

I'm Cory. I design & build web products. I lived in an RV for 3 years until settling down in Tampa, FL in 2020. It's really nice here. Come visit and I'll show you around town! 🌴 As I always tell local Floridians, I'm not here to come and change Florda – I'm here to assimilate! Portfolio highlights: https://cory.watilo.com Full portfolio: https://watilo.foliohd.com (neither of these are up to date lol) Currently... I'm lead designer at PostHog. My responsibilities include managing PostHog.com (I call myself the webmaster) and helping to level up our product. When I have spare time, I'm also building RV Envy (rvenvy.com), and manage Posthaven (posthaven.com) and FolioHD (foliohd.com). Previously... • Co-founder at Brightback (acquired by Chargebee in 2022) • First designer at Heap (heap.io) • Co-founder at Preact (acquired by Spotify in 2016) In the past, I've done quite a bit of consulting in the automotive space for companies like Kelley Blue Book and Carvana. I also designed and built most of themes available for the blogging platform Posterous. (Posterous was acquired by Twitter in 2012.) You should follow me on X or Instagram at @watilo.

Experience

Posthog

Brand & Design Lead / PostHog.com Webmaster

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

I'm responsible for PostHog.com
And I'm finally getting around to making the PostHog app an experience that will spark joy
I also work with product teams to help with specific solve product UX challenges

User Experience DesignWeb DesignUser Interface DesignProduct Design

Brightback

Co-founder, Design

Mar 2018 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Acquired by Chargebee in 2022*
Brightback, the automated customer retention company, is on a mission to help subscription-based businesses grow customer lifetime value while delighting users.

Transparent productions

Show Producer

Jun 2017 – Jun 2024 · 7 yrs · Southern California, Bay Area, Denver

Show producer for music festivals like Fishfest (Irvine, CA), Spirit West Coast (San Diego, Inland Empire, Concord), Summer Song (Denver), Gracefest (Palmdale), and more

Heap inc.

Product Designer

Sep 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

Designer #1

Carvana

Product Designer (contract)

Jun 2014 – Nov 2014 · 5 mos

I designed an updated Carvana homepage (and built it), trade-in flow and vehicle listing page

Product DesignUser Interface Design

Preact

Co-Founder

Nov 2011 – May 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco, California Area

Acquired by Spotify in 2016*
Preact learns how your customers actually behave to make your entire team better at selling, supporting and renewing accounts.
Our systems analyze in-app activity and external signals such as payment processing, support tickets and salesforce information to understand and predict future behavior to give you insight you can act on. Our industry-leading machine learning actually builds predictive and explanatory models of your indiviual accounts and users so that you're never in the dark when interacting with customers, and so that you know who needs your attention and why.

Foliohd

Co-Founder

Apr 2010 – Present · 15 yrs 11 mos · Orange County, CA

I created FolioHD out of college after being asked by many fellow classmates to help them set up a Wordpress site to show off their portfolio. Instead, I created FolioHD, the absolute easiest way to create an online portfolio. What started out as a side-project intended for use by my friends has organically grown into one of the leading online portfolio sites for models, photographers, interior designers, makeup artists, architects and more.

WordPressWeb DesignUser Interface Design

Self-employed

UX/Visual Designer

Feb 2010 – Sep 2012 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Orange County, CA

Consulting highlights include Kelley Blue Book/AutoTrader, Zillow, Dell, Posterous, 2Advanced, Bandzoogle, The Patient's Guide + more. In my time build Posterous themes, both in-house for Posterous and for other clients, I had the chance to build sites for then-Govenor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Alexis Ohanian (Reddit, Hipmunk), Rachel Zoe, The Onion, and Jennifer Van Grove (then-Mashable).