Travis McCleery

Co-Founder

San Jose, California, United States19 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led diverse design teams for major brands.
  • Created impactful digital experiences driving revenue.
  • Cultivated inclusive teams and cross-functional relationships.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned design leader in the B2C digital experience space.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product StrategyCreative DirectionUser Experience Design (ued)

Other Skills

Cross-functional Team LeadershipManagementTeam LeadershipWeb DesignDigital MarketingHiringTypographyExperience DesignArt DirectionAdobe PhotoshopUser ExperienceAdobe Creative SuiteGraphic DesignIllustratorInDesign

About

Travis is a seasoned design director with vast experience building teams and products for some of the world’s largest brands, including Netflix and Twitter. He collaborates extensively with executives, founders, and key stakeholders to build powerful design experiences that deliver business value. He’s passionate about cultivating diverse and inclusive teams, launching impactful products, and building trusted cross-functional relationships that accelerate growth. Specialties: Digital Experience Strategy, Creative Direction, Systems and Interaction Design, Team Management, Team Building

Experience

19 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Ultra friends

Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

Imprint

VP of Design

Jan 2023Mar 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · United States · Remote

Twitter

2 roles

Director, Product Design

Promoted

Aug 2022Jan 2023 · 5 mos

  • Led the Revenue Diversity org, an org that built a trusted reputation internally for delivering impactful work. Oversaw key verticals within an important new revenue stream for Twitter, including Professional Journeys, Shopping, and Developer Platform. Reported to the VP of Design and managed a team of 32, including 2 managers.

Senior Product Design Manager

Mar 2021Aug 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Developed a variety of net-new features within the Revenue Diversity org, a new team within Twitter. Built a globally diverse team from Berlin to San Francisco, managing 12 designers across 5 verticals, including Subscriptions (Twitter Blue), Payments, and more.

Netflix

2 roles

Principal Product Designer

Jun 2019Feb 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · San Jose, California, United States

  • Helped build and led the Messaging, which aimed to create highly personalized, massively scalable content that users would want to engage with. The nimble team worked on email, push notifications, in-app notifications, chatbot experiences, and more. This work became the largest source of organic traffic, generated millions of dollars in revenue, and increased retention.

Principal Product Designer

Jun 2015Jan 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · Los Gatos Ca

  • Led the Kids Interactive team, which included three designers and one content designer. We built new content and experiences for a wide age range of kids, including a “choose your own adventure” model that has since been used for “Bandersnatch”. Beyond building the team and the UI, I worked with show writers, producers, and content creators to tell new types of stories.

Root insurance company

Chief Creative Officer

Dec 2016Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area

  • Built and led the creative team at disruptive insurtech startup Root Inc from Series A to Series D, scaling the team from zero to 35 FTEs in two years. Directly managed the marketing, brand, and product design orgs and oversaw critical customer-focused initiatives, increasing the company’s valuation by over 20x.
  • During my tenure:
  • We built multiple apps(with a consistent rating of +4.5 stars),
  • Ran large-scale live-action marketing campaigns
  • Helped our internal customer service teams by building internal tools for their needs
  • Built a system for creating and iterating on ultra-targeted digital ad campaigns
  • Worked with Lettermatic to create a custom family of fonts
  • Our exceptional in-house team rebranded all aspects of Root
  • During this time, the company went from being valued at $10 million to $2.2 billion.
Product StrategyCross-functional Team LeadershipManagementTeam LeadershipWeb DesignDigital Marketing+5

Evernote

Lead Designer

Jul 2014Jul 2015 · 1 yr · Redwood City, California

  • Worked as a hybrid of product and marketing communication design in order to: strategize, create, test, and visualize a new pricing model across all channels and platforms.
User Experience Design (UED)Web DesignAdobe PhotoshopArt Direction

Brettapproved

Head of Design & Advisor

Dec 2013Dec 2016 · 3 yrs · Ohio & California

  • Worked directly with the CEO to create a brand and product that speaks to a group of individuals that have been marginalized in order to give them the confidence to experience the world.

Resource interactive

Senior Interactive Designer

Jan 2012Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Columbus, Ohio

Slingshot seo

Lead Designer

Jul 2011Jan 2012 · 6 mos · Greater Indianapolis

Mediasauce

Interactive Designer

Jun 2010Jul 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo · Indianapolis, Indiana

Media madness

Graphic Designer

Jan 2008Jun 2010 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Ohio

The counseling center

Graphic Designer

Apr 2007Mar 2008 · 11 mos

Commercial movers inc.

Designer

Mar 2007Oct 2007 · 7 mos

Cleerdesign

Creative Director

Jan 2007Dec 2016 · 9 yrs 11 mos · Ohio & California

  • Crafted responsive websites, massive print projects, apparel designs, physical and digital products, as well as full rebranding for artists, musicians, startups, large companies, and marketing firms. I hired and worked with other amazing freelance artists, engineers, and studios to meet clients' needs.

Education

Shawnee State University

Fine Arts — Interactive Media

Jan 2005Jan 2010

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