Summary
Matt Baird is a Senior Product Designer based in New York with 11 years of experience shaping consumer and B2B products across fintech, marketplaces, and enterprise SaaS. He’s driven end-to-end design for payments, publishing platforms, onboarding flows, and design systems at companies like Clover, DoorDash, Routable, and Academia.edu, often owning strategy through execution. Matt excels at translating complex business needs into usable workflows—evident in projects ranging from international payments overhauls to checkless hospitality experiences. He brings hands-on prototyping and information-architecture facilitation (OOUX) to cross-functional teams and has a knack for smoothing transitions during rebrands and product pivots. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic, collaborative, and unusually upbeat for someone shipping critical backend-facing features.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Media Arts, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Media Arts at University of South Carolina
English, French