Zach Johnston
Member Of Design Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Johnston is a product-focused design leader with 11 years of experience shaping user experiences at fast-moving startups and scale-ups across the Bay Area. Currently a Member of Design Staff at OpenAI, he previously led design at Twingate and contributed to product teams at Tome, Framer, Dropbox, and OpenGov, blending strategic vision with hands-on product craft. His background in advertising from Penn State gives him a strong sense for storytelling and visual communication that informs product decisions and cross-functional collaboration. Known for moving quickly from concept to polished interface, he excels at aligning design with business and engineering constraints. Zach’s career shows a pattern of joining companies at inflection points—helping define product direction and scale design practices. He shares work and portfolio highlights at zachjohnston.com, reflecting a practical, design-driven approach to product problems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate Advertising, Undergraduate Advertising at Penn State University
Github Skills (15)
designer9
react7
framer7
styled-components7
framer-motion6
api5
css5
sketch-app4
sketch4
sketch-plugin3
batch3
dropbox3
adobe-xd3
ui-framework2
batch-rename1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zachj0hnston/reactfordesignersdotcom
Jul 2018 - Jun 2020
A designer friendly guide to learning React
Contributions:33 commits, 8 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 11 months
reactdesignerstyled-componentsreactjslearning-react
zachj0hnston/FramerX_Translate
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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