Summary
Greg Mathews is a Staff Product Designer based in Oakland with 14 years of experience crafting user-centered products across DoorDash, Smash.gg, NerdWallet, Goodreads, and WePay. He blends a software engineering background (BS, Software Engineering) with product design, emphasizing that great design is defined by what a product does and how it helps users complete tasks effortlessly. At DoorDash he progressed from Merchant-facing design to DD Labs and now staff-level work, showing both domain depth in commerce and a knack for experimental product thinking. Greg’s career spans startups and scale-ups, where he pairs pragmatic problem solving with a belief that usability drives business outcomes—often translating complex workflows into simple, task-focused interfaces. An Oakland-based designer who thinks like an engineer, he’s comfortable bridging design, product, and technical teams to ship impactful experiences.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Software Engineering, BS, Software Engineering at San José State University