Hi, I’m Seth Knoll, an entrepreneurial product builder.

I am passionate about attacking complex problems by leveraging design thinking & solving them through a data-driven & human centered approach.

Two time startup founder at exSEED and Dollarship.

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User Focused Design

Create effective & seamless user experiences that focus on desirability, viability and feasibility.

Startup Expertise

Deep experience as a founder and founding designer, building from 0 to 1 and beyond.

Cross-Functional

Understand multi-level requirements for cohesive team collaboration and management.

Strategic Thinker

Ability to zoom out for strategic product thinking and easily zoom in for focused execution.

My Portfolio

Hi, I'm an entrepreneurial product and design leader from an hour west of Boston.

I've taken a unique, and in my opinion, advantageous path to where I am today as a design leader.

The first three years of my career were spent as a real estate investment analyst (very left field from where I am now, I know...). After being a key part of many $250M+ real estate deals, I realized that I wanted to solve some real problems, not just make a rich company even richer.

I dived head first into the startup world, where I learned to go fast, break things, and ultimately what to do and what not to do when solving problems for those that needed problems solved.

Seth Knoll

I founded, raised capital, built teams and launched products for two startups over almost 3 years. The problems I tackled were large ($1.5+ trillion in student debt and 121 million credit-challenged Americans). The solutions we built were seamless, elegant and impactful. The amount I learned was invaluable. One pivotal thing I learned was that I didn't enjoy being a founder (burnout is very real) but I loved building product. I ultimately made the difficult decision to transition from founder to product design leader for other startups, helping them build their products, find product market fit and lead their product design from 0 to 1 and beyond.

I have since joined two early stage startups as their founding design leader (Seed to Series B and Pre-Seed to Series A), working closely with leadership to think strategically around product and design direction and then executing on it. I've established product/design principles, overhauled and setup scalable design systems, and put in place processes to scale the design team underneath me to reach the goals the team and I established together. And we shipped product experiences that truly helped solve user problems.

I'm always looking for a challenge and opportunity to help a company establish or continue to scale their design vision and team. Please reach out if you see my experience and skillset as a true value-add to what your team is trying to accomplish. Thanks so much for reading my journey up to this point!

My Process

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

- Jerry Moran

🔎 Discover
🎨 Design
🚀 Deliver
📊 Measure

My Toolbox

The most important skill you need is the ability to learn how to change and grow.

- Scott Cook

💪 My product and design skills
 🛠 My product and design tools
🤝 My management style
⚡️ Additional key skills and experience