Mark Staplehurst
Principal Product Designer at Paperstac
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Staplehurst is a Principal Product Designer with 14+ years of cross-Atlantic experience shaping interfaces and product strategy for startups, large brands and nonprofits across the UK, Canada and the US. With a foundation in computer science and an early career as a software engineer, he blends technical fluency with creative leadership to drive rebrands, enterprise product expansions and developer-focused design systems. He’s led multidisciplinary teams at agencies and in-house—working with clients like Meta, Disney and the Mozilla Foundation—and currently guides product and brand evolution at Paperstac, a loan-trading marketplace with 16,000+ users. Known for mentoring designers and improving processes, he pairs hands-on craft with strategic partnership alongside executives and engineers. Away from work he’s a devoted photographer, accidental amateur historian and regional dialect coach to his daughters, a set of interests that quietly inform his user-centered storytelling and visual sensibility.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
European Baccalaureate, European Baccalaureate at The European School of LuxembourgBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Teesside University
French
Github Skills (8)
photoshop2
dot2
adobe-xd2
extensibility1
extendscript1
adobe1
after-effects1
jsx1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
WomenAndTech/WomenAndTech
Jun 2012 - Sep 2013
Contributions:284 commits in 1 year 3 months
britburger/TheParisMuseum
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 days
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