Andy Mathers
Senior Product Designer
Senior Product Designer
Senior Product Designer
At ClearGov, I led design for 7 financial budgeting products serving 1,700+ local government entities and 29,000+ financial professionals across all 50 states. I've spent the past 15 years designing complex B2B SaaS products for regulated industries (GovTech, FinTech, healthcare) where details and compliance matter.
I'm a strategic executor. I translate vision into execution through research, facilitation, prototyping, and validation. I bring director-level strategic thinking to hands-on work. That means conducting research and user interviews, designing workflows and interfaces, testing solutions with the people who use them daily.
I thrive in mission-driven companies where I can embed with a product squad, stay in regular contact with users, and design software that genuinely improves people's work lives.
What I Bring
Director-Level IC Maturity
Strategic thinking and organizational skills combined with hands-on craft expertise.
AI-Augmented Practice
Using Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude (Chat, Cowork & Code) to accelerate research, ideation and prototyping. Always exploring new tools and techniques to deepen my practice while maintaining critical judgment.
Facilitation & Collaboration
I align cross-functional teams through workshops and validation sessions, using communication and organizational skills to turn competing priorities into shared vision.
Research-Driven Validation
I use research to make sure we're building the right thing, then testing to validate we're building it correctly.
At ClearGov, I led design for 7 financial budgeting products serving 1,700+ local government entities and 29,000+ financial professionals across all 50 states. I've spent the past 15 years designing complex B2B SaaS products for regulated industries (GovTech, FinTech, healthcare) where details and compliance matter.
I'm a strategic executor. I translate vision into execution through research, facilitation, prototyping, and validation. I bring director-level strategic thinking to hands-on work. That means conducting research and user interviews, designing workflows and interfaces, testing solutions with the people who use them daily.
I thrive in mission-driven companies where I can embed with a product squad, stay in regular contact with users, and design software that genuinely improves people's work lives.
What I Bring
Director-Level IC Maturity
Strategic thinking and organizational skills combined with hands-on craft expertise.
AI-Augmented Practice
Using Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude (Chat, Cowork & Code) to accelerate research, ideation and prototyping. Always exploring new tools and techniques to deepen my practice while maintaining critical judgment.
Facilitation & Collaboration
I align cross-functional teams through workshops and validation sessions, using communication and organizational skills to turn competing priorities into shared vision.
Research-Driven Validation
I use research to make sure we're building the right thing, then testing to validate we're building it correctly.
Work Samples
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Working with Andy was one of the best experiences I have had as a PM. He did not just jump right into design, but rather sought to collaboratively understand the problem and why it was important. Once we had a shared understanding of the problems, Andy did an amazing job of translating complex requirements into iterative designs.
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Working with Andy was one of the best experiences I have had as a PM. He did not just jump right into design, but rather sought to collaboratively understand the problem and why it was important. Once we had a shared understanding of the problems, Andy did an amazing job of translating complex requirements into iterative designs.
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Working with Andy was one of the best experiences I have had as a PM. He did not just jump right into design, but rather sought to collaboratively understand the problem and why it was important. Once we had a shared understanding of the problems, Andy did an amazing job of translating complex requirements into iterative designs.
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Andy was our anchor in hyper-growth chaos. He bridged cross-functional discovery with a rare ability to ask the questions that kept us aligned on real user problems. He turned research insights into executable designs without losing the "why." Working with him was both grounding and energizing. I'd do it again tomorrow.
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Andy was our anchor in hyper-growth chaos. He bridged cross-functional discovery with a rare ability to ask the questions that kept us aligned on real user problems. He turned research insights into executable designs without losing the "why." Working with him was both grounding and energizing. I'd do it again tomorrow.
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Andy was our anchor in hyper-growth chaos. He bridged cross-functional discovery with a rare ability to ask the questions that kept us aligned on real user problems. He turned research insights into executable designs without losing the "why." Working with him was both grounding and energizing. I'd do it again tomorrow.
