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I’m Matthew Gordon

Consumer-centric product leader and designer with nearly a decade in the fintech space, creating products that delight and improve the lives of users.

 
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🖥️ Experience

 

BillGO, Inc. (acquired Prism Money) Redmond, WA
Senior Product Designer
2018-2022

  • Product lead in delivering revolutionary bill pay solutions to numerous top-20 national banks in order to innovate bill pay for a new generation of customers.

  • Led the successful launch of four innovative payment products by working closely with a variety of stakeholders, executives, legal, and clients.

  • Drove product roadmap for Prism Money, implementing new features that raised customer adoption, as well as opened successful new revenue streams.

  • Managed design team and backlog; worked daily with developers to instill a consumer-centric mindset across teams and leadership.


Handle Financial (acquired Prism Money) Redmond, WA
Product & Design, previously Product Biller Lead
2016-2018

  • Synthesized consumer feedback and analytics to ideate on new product offerings.

  • Utilized rapid prototyping to streamline potentiality of new features and to maximize existing conversion funnels.

  • Employed UserTesting and Mixpanel to gain daily insights into product use by customers.

  • Developed specialization-based tiers in engineering team based upon skill and personality, leading to increased turnaround and customer satisfaction.


Prism Money Bellevue, WA
Product & Design, previously Product Biller Lead
2012-2016

  • Helped build Prism Money into an award-winning, 5-star, beloved fintech app that radically improves customer’s lives through bill pay and organization.

  • Engaged directly with customers on a daily basis to understand needs and resolve issues.

  • Developed and grew network of nationwide billers via crowdsourcing. This network now rivals Mastercard’s RPPS network and other payment rail networks.


Ophthalmic Illustration Services Port Huron, MI
Copywriter
2011-2012

  • Wrote, edited, and designed various medical publications from start to finish.

  • Traveled to medical conventions to market products and survey customers.


Helen Keller Foundation for Research & Education Birmingham, AL
Copywriter (internship)
2011-2012

  • Created and wrote concise and accurate medical copy used in publications and online resources.

  • Utilized spare time to design, write, and edit the publication of a book on the life of Helen Keller. This book is now used to garner donations, and was recognized by the American Foundation for the Blind.

🎓 Education

 

University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
Bachelor of Arts Degree in History
2007-2011

  • University Honors for 3.5 GPA or higher: 2009-2011

  • James B. Angell Scholar Award for distinguished academics: 2010, 2011

  • Kothe Hildner Prize in German Writing Honoree: 2010, 2011

  • Senior research paper honored and published by the Cornell Historical Society.

⚔️ Skills

 
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