Christopher Paniati Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

New York, US

As the product design manager for Hinge's Growth and Trust & Safety groups I support 7 designers across Hinge's monetization, user growth, product marketing, content design, user safety, and internal tools workstreams.

New York, US

As a Senior Lead I continued to tackle some of the most complex problems in the dating space, working with numerous partners to define vision and roadmaps for key areas of the product. I've supported our growing design team with hiring new talent, evolving our design processes, and mentoring peers as we've grown from a budding team of 4 designers to an.

New York, US

As a product design lead I spearheaded the design of new features across several areas including: the new user experience & onboarding, inclusive design for our LGBTQ+ daters, and post-match interactions like chat & date planning.

Built & launched a farmer's market delivery service to fill a gap in community access to high quality local food after the Covid-19 crisis impacted many of the local farmer's markets in the bay area. I managed the business and a delivery & operations team of 3 for a year and a half serving hundreds of households across 4 Bay Area cities before merging my.

San Francisco, CA, US

• I led the design and user experience of MiraAI, a platform organizing information from across the web in order to help beauty enthusiasts find the right products for them. MiraAI was acquired in 2020 for 30M by Femtec.
• Worked to build Mira's product design efforts from the ground up, creating product roadmaps, prioritizing design & research efforts, and centering our team around the user experience.
• Piloted workshops, interviews, surveys, and other research efforts across numerous initiatives to answer product questions, uncover opportunity areas, and define our audience.
• Led Mira's effort to design a powerful-yet-simple search engine for beauty products & worked together with our data & dev team to execute the designs. Continually tested, iterated and personalized the user's journey to.
• Developed app branding, aesthetic guidelines, our public website, promotional materials, UI graphics & animations, and more.
• Organized & mentored a design team of 3 including managing a design research internship. Worked on creating effective & efficient design processes and created experience frameworks we needed to align around our user.

San Francisco, CA, US

Post-launch, I continued to lead the design + development of Atlas, a digital journey mapping platform that I designed and prototyped. I led the front-end development for the project, working with a team of other developers on the back-end API & database for Atlas. In our first year we grew an internal user base of more than 1,000 designers and other.

San Francisco, CA, US

Designed, prototyped, developed, and launched Atlas, a web application for interactive, collaborative experience mapping. I coded the original prototype my team used to pitch for the tool as a culmination of communications research I conducted within the company during my initial contract. I wore many hats for this project — as the sole designer, I.

Designed the UI, branding, marketing, and app mechanics working alongside founder & developer Gil Carmel.

San Francisco, CA, US

Collaborated with the Motiv team on producing designs for the iOS app's mobile interface, prototyped and tested mock-ups of the app.

San Francisco, CA, US

Working for CCA's digital team I redesigned CCA's Vault student archive system including a new UI, iconography, and branding. I converted the existing system to match the new design using HTML / CSS / JS and worked with our dev team to connect the back-end. Conducted usability testing and iterated on the design.

New York, US

Assisted in design and development of Discovery's internal applications.

Designed, and developed websites and advertising campaigns for an array of small businesses throughout the DMV.

Bachelor'S Degree, Interaction Design

Human Computer Interaction