Cassie Mcdaniel is a seasoned design leader with 11+ years building product, brand, and research teams across startups and larger tech companies, currently serving as VP of Design at Medium. She has scaled design organizations at Lattice, Webflow, and Mozilla, and co-founded a studio and lecture series that reflect her entrepreneurial bent. Comfortable in messy, fast-moving environments, she pairs curiosity-driven leadership with high executional standards to solve complex product problems at scale. Cassie is passionate about cultivating customer-centric cultures and mentoring individual contributors and managers across disciplines. Based in Orlando, she brings a rare mix of hands-on design craft (BFA, summa cum laude) and strategic people leadership, thriving where optimism and ambition meet tangible impact. An advocate for inclusive, fun work cultures, she intentionally seeks roles that demand her best self.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Graphic Design, Graphic Design at University of Leeds
Bachelors of Fine Arts summa cum laude Graphic Design, Bachelors of Fine Arts summa cum laude Graphic Design at University of Florida
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