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Leslie
Mathews-Bass

Dedicated product design professional with 7+ years of experience successfully nurturing software products from research and ideation through launch and beyond, who thrives in collaborative, inquisitive and mission-driven environments.
leslienmathews@gmail.com | 831.359.6873 | linkedin.com/in/l-mathews-bass

Work Experience

Nearside

Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Senior Product Designer
  • Led cross-platform design for several high-value features that helped bring the Nearside business checking product into feature parity with competitors
  • Collaborated with product and design on forward-thinking product features
  • Contributed to the expansion of the Nearside design system and internal design operations

Compology

Apr 2017 - Mar 2022
Lead Product Designer, San Francisco, CA

Compology is a software and hardware solution that helps Fortune 100 companies and governments meter their waste to eliminate inefficiencies, drive toward their sustainability goals, all while reducing waste costs. 

  • First product design hire at the company, reported directly to the co-founder and Chief Product Officer
  • Created the complete design system for the Compology customer-facing web-application from the ground up, balancing product, engineering and business needs
  • Led user research and design for all major features of the Compology customer-facing web-application and internal operations tools, including waste-metering, dashboard, customer/location management and dumpster monitoring features 
  • Planned, refined and implemented our end-to-end user research practices which resulted in an increase in the number of research projects we were able to do, and decreased our time to completion
  • Collaborated on a brand redesign with the internal marketing team and an external design team at Mackey Saturday
  • Co-founded the Compology DEI committee, led diversity and inclusion surveying/analysis, planned company-wide cultural events and coordinated facilitation by outside DEI consultant Change Cadet

August Home

Jan 2015 - Apr 2017
Senior User Experience and User Interface Designer, San Francisco, CA

August creates award-winning smart-home access products, giving customers unprecedented visibility and control over their front door.

  • Designed several major features of the August customer-facing mobile application including setup and onboarding flows for the August Smart Keypad (the first accessory product to the August Smart Lock) and the activity feed
  • Planned and executed user research and usability tests, including ethnographic studies with an external research team
  • Implemented several large-scale changes to the tools and processes used by the design team, which saved additional team resources

Envision Media

Dec 2008 - Aug 2014
Graphic Designer, Santa Cruz, CA
  • Designed presentations, interactive demos, digital and print marketing collateral for Fortune 100 technology companies

Education

Master of Fine Arts, Interaction & UI/UX Design

2014/2015 MFA Valedictorian

Bachelors of Science, Design and Visual Communications