Blake Mattos

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States22 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building high-performance design teams.
Strong background in user experience and product design.
Proven track record in mentoring and advising startups.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused design leader with extensive experience in user experience and product design.

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Skills

Other Skills

User ExperienceUser Interface DesignInteraction DesignLeadershipUser InterfaceMobile DevicesStart-upsUser-centered DesignUser Experience DesignE-commerceWeb DesignVisual DesignGraphic DesignMotion DesignWordPress

About

I build and lead best-in-class, high-performance Design and Creative Teams centered around technical products and scalable businesses. I create and scale future-focused, collaborative environments where talented people can do their best work. I am a logical and empathetic servant-leader. Advisor, mentor and investor. Always looking for Type 2 Fun projects.

Experience

22 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Tailscale

2 roles

VP of Design

Promoted

Sep 2023 – Feb 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos

Head of Design

Feb 2023 – Sep 2023 · 7 mos

Alchemy

Advisor

Feb 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco

Cloudflare, inc.

Head of Product Design

Jul 2016 – Feb 2023 · 6 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco

Designing a better internet

Citrix

Senior Product Designer

Jun 2015 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco, CA

Rocket lawyer, inc

Product Designer

Oct 2013 – May 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco

Stealth startup

Chief Product Officer

Sep 2012 – Oct 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Yousendit

Visual & Interaction Creative Design Lead

Jul 2011 – Sep 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos

► Responsible for creative ideation, conception, mockups, wireframes, site/system/user flows and final visual design assets for Product, Marketing, Enterprise, e-Commerce and cross-channel publication.
► Create and deliver optimized final web, mobile and email graphic assets in-line with demanding, fast-paced publication schedule.
► Designed award-winning direct marketing emails for 30+ million users; increased and sustained all key email marketing metrics including click-through rate, upsell conversions and gross adds.
► Conceptualize and design creative marketing collateral for various channel marketing initiatives A/B and Multivariate testing campaigns including animated banners, house ads.