Jonathon Toon
Senior Staff Product Designer at SoFi
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathon Toon is a Senior Staff Product Designer with 12+ years of hands-on experience leading discovery-driven product design across startups and public companies in New Zealand, Japan, Australia and the US. He combines user research, growth design and cross-functional leadership to launch subscription products, redesign high-impact experiences and map enterprise lead funnels—often translating research into board-level strategy and financial models. Jonathon has built and scaled design functions from hiring and career rubrics to onboarding and mentorship, and has a track record of moving products from beta to paid launch (Stripe integrations) and improving conversion metrics. He mentors founders and product teams, volunteers for startup ecosystems in Aotearoa, and brings a practical creative-generalist mindset that spans visual craft, front-end prototyping and product strategy.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Of Design Innovation Media Design Interaction Design Design Theory, Bachelor Of Design Innovation Media Design Interaction Design Design Theory at Victoria University of WellingtonDiploma of Graphics and Multimedia Design Foundation Design Fine Art, Diploma of Graphics and Multimedia Design Foundation Design Fine Art at Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NMIT)
Github Skills (98)
twitter10
browser10
grid10
boilerplate10
javascript9
webpack9
desktop9
eslint9
scalable8
react8
typescript8
nodejs8
foundation8
gulp7
snap7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jonathontoon/manifest
Dec 2019 - Aug 2020
An instant grid-based pinboard for note taking in your browser.
Contributions:4 releases, 255 commits, 244 PRs in 7 months
notesbrowsernote-takingjavascriptpinboard
jonathontoon/starter-kit
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
A simple static site / PWA boilerplate using Nunjunks for HTML templating, esbuild for JS transpilation and CSS variables.
Contributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 8 months
static-sitegulppostcsspwatemplate
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