Sophie Shepherd
Product Design Manager at Stripe
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSophie Shepherd is a Product Design Manager in Austin with 11 years of experience leading design for high-impact, platform-scale products. Currently she leads design for Stripe Connect — the backbone of Stripe’s payment volume — after a stint at GitHub where she managed teams shipping core experiences like Pull Requests, Codespaces, mobile apps, Sponsors, and Identity. Sophie blends visual design, front-end development, and user research, having rebuilt major products at Ushahidi and led web and marketing design at GitHub. She’s equally focused on design systems and team health, with a track record of scaling teams that ship complex, cross-functional products. A BFA in Film underscores her strong visual storytelling instincts applied to product design.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Film, BFA, Film at New York University
Github Skills (60)
sass-framework10
octicons10
slack-integration10
open-government10
ui-components10
bower10
meta10
css10
sass10
open-source10
bem10
rails10
garden10
github-app10
bootstrap-icons10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sophshep/sophshep.github.io
Apr 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 61 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 10 months
react
sophshep/sophshep
Jun 2020 - Apr 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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