Poli Gilad
Senior Product Designer at Automattic
Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPoli Gilad is a Senior Product Designer with over four years of experience shaping cohesive digital products at companies like Automattic and Booking.com. She combines a structured UX process—grounded in research, stakeholder workshops, and rigorous user testing—with hands-on detailed design to take features from vision to shipped product. Poli has built design teams and end-to-end web apps from scratch, led branding and marketing design, and mentored other designers, showing both strategic and executional strength. Based in Haarlem, she favors collaborative workflows and frequent check-ins to keep product goals aligned, and outside work she channels her maker mindset into DIY projects that inform her pragmatic, craft-oriented approach to design.
4 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Visual Communication Design, Bachelor’s Degree, Visual Communication Design at Bezalel Academy of Art and DesignBachelor’s Degree, Visual Communication Design, Student Exchange Program, Bachelor’s Degree, Visual Communication Design, Student Exchange Program at ARTEZ Institute of the Arts, Enschede
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (11)
woocommerce10
wordpress10
php10
nodejs10
javascript10
api10
react10
ecommerce10
redux10
commerce10
shopping-cart9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
woocommerce/woo-design-quality
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 comments, 7 issues in 21 days
Automattic/wp-calypso
Jul 2021 - Mar 2025
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Contributions:39 reviews, 101 comments, 3 issues in 3 years 8 months
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
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