Valentina Montagna
Contract Growth Designer at Self-employed
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolValentina Montagna is a seasoned product and growth designer with 12+ years building user-centered experiences across startups and mid-size Silicon Valley companies, currently working as a contract Growth Designer in the San Francisco Bay Area. She blends a rigorous background in typography and graphic design with hands-on product strategy, having co-founded a design startup and led acquisition, SEO, and monetization efforts at companies like MasterClass, Scribd, Evernote, and Tubi. Valentina is comfortable owning end-to-end experiences and translating design into technical conversations—she enjoys workshopping solutions directly with engineers and shipping measurable growth experiments. Her practice spans payments, onboarding, discovery, and editorial systems, informed by deep craft in type, print production, and visual identity. Colleagues describe her work as functional, relatable, and sustainably designed, with an uncommon strength in bridging brand-quality design with data-driven product outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Liceo Artistico Statale "Candiani"Master of Science - MS Graphic Design and Communication Design, Master of Science - MS Graphic Design and Communication Design at MIP Politecnico di MilanoScenography, Scenography at Accademia di Belle Arti di BreraMaster of Arts Book Design, Master of Arts Book Design at University of ReadingTypography, Typography at CFP Bauer - AFOL Metropolitana
English, German, French
Github Skills (2)
nextjs2
open-source2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ScintillaLuz/shedoesscream
Dec 2014 - Sep 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 16 pushes in 1 year 8 months
ScintillaLuz/womenchallenge
Apr 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years 1 month
women
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