Summary
Stephen Hadinger is a multidisciplinary design and product leader with 11 years of experience crafting digital products, emerging-tech experiments, and service experiences for both global brands and startups. Currently serving as CPO at Clarity Systems while advising and partnering across ventures like Tandem and the Golden State Warriors, he blends hands-on craft with strategic exploration to turn ambiguous problems into operational solutions. His background spans creative technology, product design, and business development—from founding design practice work that led to an acquisition to directing strategic exploration at Walmart. Known for sweating the details without losing sight of the big picture, he routinely bridges design, engineering and commercial priorities to drive measurable outcomes. Comfortable wearing many hats, he has a track record of launching v1 products for startups and shaping consumer-facing applications for enterprise teams. Based in San Francisco with a technical creative education, he brings a rare mix of creative storytelling, fabrication curiosity, and pragmatic product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS: Mass Communications Creative Technology, MS: Mass Communications Creative Technology at Virginia Commonwealth University
BA Interactive Marketing, BA Interactive Marketing at Christopher Newport University