Mathieu Fortune
Resume
Mathieu Fortune
Product Designer
Send me an email at pro.mathieu.fortune@gmail.com
Resume
Experiences
Senior Product Designer | Carbon Direct
Seattle, WA (Remote) | Dec 2023 - Now
Science-based solutions supporting government and businesses in their carbon management journey.
• Help establish design culture and processes
• Lead deep user research to understand new product opportunities
• Design dashboards to deliver actionable decarbonization insights
• Use customer feedback and product analytics to iterate quickly and move meaningful product and business metrics
• Create vision mocks to bring the next chapter of product vision to life
Senior Product Designer | Mentor Collective
Boston, MA (Remote) | Apr 2021 - Sep 2023
Ed-Tech start-up, bridging the equity gap in higher-education by serving over 2M users across 180+ academic institutions with human support and a SaaS platform.
• SaaS Platform Overhaul: Led redesign of the SaaS platform for both the B2C and B2B experiences, employing a mobile-first approach and adhering to WCAG AA standards.
Design Systems Creation: Spearheaded creation of a company-wide design system, harmonizing design practices and boosting operational efficiency for both mobile and desktop experiences.
• UX Research: Leveraged various user research methods to collect both quantitative and qualitative key insights into diverse user needs and preferences, informing the development of user-centric solutions.
• End-to-End Design: Delivered the full spectrum of design tasks, from conceptual wireframes to high-fidelity interfaces using Figma, aligning with user and business goals.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Contributed to a collaborative environment, working with globally distributed, remote cross-functional teams, including product managers and engineering.
• Quality Assurance: Ensured quality control for new feature deployments, upholding product excellence and user satisfaction.
• Mentoring Junior Designers: Provided mentorship and guidance to junior designers and cross-functional team members, fostering constructive feedback and a learning-oriented design culture.
Designed the extensive overhaul of the SaaS platform for both B2C and B2B experiences, following WCAG AA accessibility standards and mobile-first approach. This initiative resulted in a substantial 116% increase in user engagement and unlocked the platform's scalability. Implemented and maintained a design system used by 3 product/engineering teams across 20+ projects.
Co-Founder & Chief of Product | MoGraph Mentor
Sarasota, FL (Remote) | Jan 2019 - Apr 2022
Co-founded an Ed-Tech startup helping motion designers develop their career by providing group mentorship and specialized curriculum, delivered by industry-leading professionals in Design and Animation.
• Strategic Leadership & Product Development: Oversaw the inception and evolution of MoGraph Mentor, wearing multiple hats spanning product development, design, development, marketing, and business strategy, contributing to the company’s strategic direction and overall success.
• Market & User Research: Conducted market and user research, translating insights into a comprehensive and forward-looking product roadmap, driving product innovation and user-centered design.
• Strategic Feature Prioritization: Executed strategic prioritization of product features, shaping the product’s trajectory and ensuring flexibility and alignment with user needs and business objectives.
• Design & Technical Execution: Led the end-to-end product creation with wireframes, prototypes, and user interfaces, managing technical implementations to bridge design and code, ensuring an optimal and user-friendly workflow and experience.
• Content Curation & Collaboration: Initiated strong collaborations with business partners and content creators to curate and deliver compelling, high-quality educational content, enhancing learner engagement and experience.
• Cross-Functional Team Management: Managed a cross-functional team of marketers and creatives, orchestrating go-to-market and product marketing strategies, fostering a cohesive and dynamic working environment.
Achieved six-figure revenue milestone within two years, impacting over 50,000 students and creating a vibrant and interactive learning community.
Founder & Senior Design Consultant | Inventive Format
Miami, FL | Aug 2018 - Jul 2022
Web and branding consultancy, offering digital solutions catered to small to medium-sized enterprises, with a focus on driving brand visibility and business growth through innovative and user-centric digital strategies.
• Strategic Market Research: Conducted market research and gathered user insights to provide tailored services, including web design, development, and digital marketing strategies, addressing the unique needs of each client.
• Client Education & Mentorship: Educated clients about the latest web technologies, fostering digital literacy and empowerment. Mentored junior designers and marketers, cultivating a learning-centric environment.
• End-to-End Project Execution: Successfully executed over 20 projects, emphasizing research-driven, user-centered design and development approaches, ensuring the delivery of user experiences and alignment with client objectives.
• Digital Marketing Strategy: Developed and implemented digital marketing strategies, enhancing brand visibility, engagement, and contributing to business growth
• Branding & Graphic Design: Helped bring client’s vision to life by providing branding and graphic design services, ensuring seamless alignment and realization of business objectives through tailored solutions.
Led collective efforts resulting in the generation of over $700K in revenue, showcasing tangible results and significant return on investment for clients.
Product Designer | Bakerly
Miami, FL | Feb 2018 - Jan 2019
At Bakerly, a French food & beverage start-up, I played a critical role in shaping the e-commerce initiative of the business by leading user research and designing web and mobile solutions while collaborating closely with Sales, Marketing and Product teams. Aside from my role as Product Designer, I also contributed to compelling package designs and the brand's visual identity.
UX/UI Developer | Freelance
Remote | Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
During travels across multiple continents, I offered freelance Agile UI/UX Developer services to a range of small- to medium-sized businesses, focusing on user research, web design, and web development.
User Experience Designer | 1001Pharmacies.com
Montpellier, France | Jan 2016 - Jan 2017
In the wake of an organizational overhaul at 1001pharmacies, I seamlessly transitioned into the role of UX Designer, aligning my expertise with the needs of a dynamic Agile engineering team within a flat organizational structure. This shift immersed me in the world of human-centric design. In this dynamic role, I embraced the full spectrum of UX responsibilities:
• UX research: Performed user research and testing to guide development of search & discovery feature and checkout funnel of E-commerce platform. Delivered comprehensive personas, journey maps and market research to guide Product Owner and internal stakeholders product roadmap decisions.
• A/B tests and data-driven decisions: Collaboratively established A/B testing and user tracking tools and processes on e-commerce platform, providing valuable insights into user needs and preferences.
• Wireframes & prototypes: Crafted wireframes and prototypes in Sketch helping bridged communication gaps across cross-functional teams, fostering a shared vision and validating solutions with real users.
• Frontend development: Worked closely with engineering teams, providing support on frontend development tasks (HTML, CSS, Javascript ES6) and writing functional tests.
Front-End Developer | 1001Pharmacies.com
Montpellier, France | Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
While working as a Frontend Developer at 1001pharmacies, an e-commerce marketplace specializing in drugstore products, I thrived within a dynamic engineering team under the guidance of the CTO. My role primarily focused on supporting the marketing team with their engineering needs and maintaining the frontend stack of our eCommerce platform.
• Desktop and Mobile frontend optimizations: Optimized user experience and performances of of e-commerce platform for both web and mobile experiences, using HTML, CSS and Javascript (ES6) languages, reducing friction and increasing conversion rate.
• Collaboration with marketing: Collaborated seamlessly with the marketing team to craft email campaigns, implement engineering solutions for marketing events on e-commerce platform and contributing to data analysis of user behaviors. This multifaceted role demanded not only technical know-how but also keen understanding of digital marketing, user behavior, and business objectives.
UI Developer & Designer | Publika
Montpellier, France | Jan 2012 - Jan 2015
Publika is a web and digital marketing agency. Leveraging HTML, CSS, Javascript and Adobe Creative Suite, I played a key role in converting creative concepts into precise, user-friendly responsive web solutions. Responsibility included collaborating with project managers, digital marketers, and back-end developers, contributing to quality assurance, project planning, and client interaction to deliver pixel-perfect outcomes aligned with creative visions.
Led the frontend development of an in-house content management system (CMS) platform for web and mobile solutions providing value to more than 100 clients across diverse industries.
Skills
Product / UX Design
Product Management
Frontend Development
Digital Marketing
Trainings
Lean Startup and Running Lean | with Stéphane Langlois
From January 2016 to February 2016
- Several Workshops around Lean Startup and Running Lean books. How to lead problems interviews, Lean canvas, Lean approach of things
Kanban method | with Pablo Pernot
One day (2015)
- Workshop around the Kanban method. Build and maintain a project and/or company's Kanban to show their productivity output
Growth Hacking | with Koudetah TheFamily
From Mars 2015 to May 2015
- Remote learning of Koudetah's courses about Growth Hacking Technics
Webdesigner/Front-end developer degree | at Objectif3D School
2012
- Fundamentals of Webdesign (Adobe Creative Suite) and Frontend development (HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQL)
Economics and Socials Sciences | at High School Albert Camus Nîmes, France
2010
- High School Graduation with mention
Events
- Co-Founder of the Denver French Tech Group
- Member of SOFLUX (South Florida UX) meetup group
- Co-organizer and speaker at UX FLUPA MeetUp place at 1001pharmacies - 2015 April'
- Attended to SmashingConf Barcelona 2016 Barcelona, Spain'
- Attended to BlendWebMix 2015 Lyon, France'
- Attended to lightning talks taking place at business incubator Cap Oméga Montpellier, France
Recommendations
Mathieu was a Senior Product Designer on my team at Mentor Collective. In his time at Mentor Collective, I came to rely upon him for his insightful questions and probing perspective. He championed the need for a more modern design system for our B2B and B2C applications. He took ownership of the design system's process, deliverables and even the maintenance. The look and feel of the Mentor Collective platform (and the ability to scale it up) is a direct result of Mathieu's efforts. Lastly, Mathieu is a designer who not just designs for what is needed now, but strives to anticipate the next set of needs. His research and design will not just meet your immediate needs but plants the seeds for future directions.Steve Mackley, Vice President of Product @ Mentor Collective
Don't wait on the chance to add Mathieu Fortune to your team! I had the pleasure to work along side Mathieu at Mentor Collective for nearly 3 years -- Me in the role of Senior Product Manager, and him in the role of Senior Product Designer. When running a product squad, a designer can really make or break a team's flow, and I can say without a doubt that Mathieu was always a key player in allowing us to ship high quality product work, quickly! He has a gift for being able to envision the big picture (think 1-5year plan), and also be able to work with the team to break that work out iteratively, so we can be continuously shipping, learning, and improving. One of the ways Mathieu accomplished this while I worked with him, was via building out a reliable design system that not only supported our current product, but was able to grow and evolve as the product grew and evolved. The roll-out of this update was smooth and easy for the whole team to understand. Additionally, Mathieu's documentation is pristine. In fact, on one occasion while I was reviewing Mathieu's Figma designs, my husband (a VP of Product at a startup) looked over my shoulder and said, "Whoa, did your designer do that?! I've never seen such an organized Figma file!" For Mathieu, design work doesn't stop at building out a UX/UI that solves the user problem -- He follows through to make sure he communicates this design out to the development team in order to turn the ideas into a reality. Clear layers, research documentation, handoff notes, and a background in frontend engineering makes Mathieu a dream designer for engineers. I lost count of the number of sprint retros where the engineers sang his praises. All of this, and I still haven't talked about:1. The abundance of user research work Mathieu planned, conducted, neatly summarized, and shared with the team. 2. The discovery and brainstorming activities he would regularly lead. 3. The absolute pleasure it is just to work with somebody as kind, caring, and user focused as Mathieu. Mathieu is hands down, one of the best designers I've had the pleasure to work with, and if you're lucky enough to add him to your team, I'm sure you'll feel the same way.Kelley Johnson, Product Manager @ Mentor Collective
I was fortunate to work with Mathieu for over two years on the same product squad at Mentor Collective and can confidently recommend him as a talented designer. As a Senior Product Designer, his dedication to research and data-driven design ensured that user experiences were not only visually compelling but also highly effective. Threading this needle is not always easy! Mathieu’s attention to detail and creative solutions are standout qualities that consistently elevated his work. What sets Mathieu apart is his ability to be a creative thought partner when it comes to bridging the gap between design and engineering, demonstrating a commitment to collaboration and teamwork. He consistently engaged in productive dialogue with engineers to improve design handoff processes and sprint workflows, and excelled in finding innovative design workarounds to technical limitations, which makes him an invaluable asset to any project. When he joined Mentor Collective, Mathieu was faced with a design landscape that had long been without a dedicated designer. He approached the buffet of design needs with creativity and impressive resolve. Our excitement and gratitude that he joined our team only increased the longer he was there. One of his most impactful early contributions to the team was collaborating with engineering to establish a thoughtful design system, aligning it with branding while enhancing usability and accessibility across the platform. This new design system was quickly used to redesign a highly visible dashboard that had unique data and usability challenges, and saw a notable increase in visitor engagement after launch. And he was just getting started! Mathieu's abundant contributions undeniably left a positive and lasting impact on our projects and the team. Any team would be lucky to have him.Lindsay Wall, Senior Software Engineer @ Mentor Collective
Mathieu is great to work with. I was working with him during his mission at Gleeden. He was able to understand business requirements and technical limitations while delivering quality work. Mathieu is an extremely talented and driven individual that I would love to work with again.Solène Paillet, Marketing Director French Division @ Gleeden (Inventive Format)
I worked closely with Mathieu on a number of pretty complex web projects. Mathieu has proven to be an excellent designer and developer who is easy to collaborate with. He asks pertinent questions and offers efficient alternatives and smart solutions that move a project forward. Beside his excellent work as a developer, Mathieu’s has an admirable work ethic-generally the first one in the door in the morning, gunning to get started, and always willing to learn something new. I have been impressed by Mathieu more times than I can count and his easy attitude makes him a great part of any team.Cliff Grente, Software Developer @ Gleeden (Inventive Format)
Mathieu is a such a great professional! He was always helpful and always wiling to teach and share his knowledge. His skills are outstanding, I was a witness of all the great projects he accomplished during the time we worked together at Bakerly. Not only he is professional in his field but a great person. He was always friendly and reliable, a great person to work with!Tatiana Duron-Idiaquez, Senior Sales Operative Manager @ Bakerly
Mathieu helped me with several web and design projects linked to my companies. Mathieu is very easy to work with, he knows how to handle situations and answers all the challenges on the spot. He follows through and closes actions. He is very knowledgable and skilled at what he does and guides his customers towards the current trends in the industry. It was a pleasure to work with him. I highly recommend him and definitely looking forward to working with him again in the future.Jordan Cohen, CEO @ MaintenanceQuebec (Inventive Format)
Working with Mathieu on UX subjects was very exciting... He's always learning about topics around user-centered design and doesn't hesitate to challenge project ideas to move forward. Also, he has a real eye for aesthetics! I can only recommend you to work with Mathieu.Audrey Lambert, Digital Marketing Manager @ 1001pharmacies.com
Mathieu was a great asset in 1001pharmacies' development team. He used his UX and Front-end development skills to serve our e-commerce website, as well as our current web site re-design. His professionalism led him to work with commitment and high motivation until his last day in our team. These actions allow me to recommend him without hesitation, and I invite you to give him a shot to prove his true value. Feel free to contact me directly for more information.Cédric O'Neill, co-founder CEO @ 1001pharmacies.com
Mathieu is an avid UX/UI Designer. Thanks to his exceptional design skills and clear explanations in projects (whose collaboration was rich in learning/teaching and very rewarding), he did them by providing much value to the different projects. Motivated and passionate, he helped me and other colleagues to improve themselves. It's a pleasure to work with him, and I recommend him for future web projects.Sébastien Correaud, Front-End Developer @ 1001pharmacies.com
I worked with Mathieu for a year. Deeply involved in the projects he worked on, he managed to find the most qualitative solution for each challenge he encountered. His creativity and sixth sense for usability is a great asset for a team.Guilhem Marty, CTO @ 1001pharmacies.com