SuperNice®

$75M+ raised by our clients.

Design partner for startups & agencies.

We help startups build digital products and experiences to solve user needs and business challenges.

Founder & Creative Director

Left Field Labs

Senior Product Designer (Freelance)

Moment

Moment has been acquired by Patreon on October 17, 2023.

Moment redefines virtual experiences by providing a platform for artists and creators to create, manage, and host live-stream events where they can connect with their fans globally.

Designed and launched the Worlds mobile app from zero to one in 6 months.

Wethos

Wethos makes it easy to scope projects and split payments so you can team up and transform your one-person shop into a full-service studio.

Led the generation and management of Wethos’s Design System to facilitate design-to-code implementation.

Senior Product Designer

Product Designer

Atticus

A DIY estate settlement software, providing individuals & institutions with affordable, easy-to-use and transparent access to automated estate settlement services.

Product Designer (Freelance)

BluPrint

BluPrint helps Non-STEM college students land their first job at local tech companies that earned a spot in the UCI Wayfinder Accelerator program.

• Designed all of the branding, marketing, user experience, and visual designs, exploring over 100 directions for component & overall design.
• Conducted research and usability tests with over 30 stakeholders to produce a user-centric product.

Co-Founder & Product Designer

KM Design

Formulated and translated client needs into logos, websites, posters and various social media content in over 35 cross-media projects for more than 20 clients.

Visual Designer

Hi! I’m Kelvin Man 👋
I help startups and agencies turn ideas into clear, thoughtful design.

✅ UI/UX & Webflow
✅ Pitch decks & design systems
✅ Strategy that supports real growth ($75M+ raised)

Want to chat? Email me → hello@kelvinman.com

Kelvin Man

Eryn Peters

Weekly Workforce

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Editor in Chief

Startup Consortium

Startup Consortium is a boutique consulting agency specializing in 
- Hypergrowth and scaleup companies
- Growth hacking
- Change management
- Data and product
- Brand and content
- Services marketplaces

Principal

Association for the Future of Work

Global Director

Andela

Built and managed a number of marketing sub-functions including Community, Product Marketing, Talent Marketing, Client Marketing, Creative, Web, Communications (PR / Social), and Marketing Operations.

Keywords: growth marketing, team building, brand strategy, marketing analytics, market research, b2b, b2c, community management, executive leadership, corporate social responsibility

VP of Marketing

Toptal

Ideated and formed the new Talent Strategy function from the ground-up to streamline communication and collaboration between sales, talent acquisition, community, and talent operations teams.

Conceptualized and validated a data analytics framework that compared the
supply health and demand of skills within our two-sided marketplace.

Implemented and delivered complex operational strategy playbooks to
automate the acquisition of high-priority skills that significantly decreased the
time, cost, and effort required while increasing revenue.

Head of Talent Strategy

Hired dozens of core team employees and executives while leading our sourcing
team that increased our talent network size by 15%.

Overhauled onboarding and training processes to increase new hire stickiness and
satisfaction.

Selected and implemented new recruiting CRM software that doubled our first-touch
candidate response rate and allow for easy, transparent reporting. Project Managed product enhancements for complete system integration.

Reimagined and implemented a new salary, commission, and general payroll
compensation plan for the sourcing and recruitment teams.

Conducted audits and data systems surrounding GDPR compliance.

Oversaw 25+ direct reports on both Talent Acquisition/Sourcing and Community teams.

Director Of Operations

Increased talent NPS score by a full point by creating a total rewards value
framework that served as a basis to enhance our candidate and employee
experience. This offered a mix of social, soft and technical skills education, philanthropic projects, strategic partnerships and more.

Created a total engagement score that measured talent activity and satisfaction rates by region which allowed us to strategically target groups and monitor activation success.

Recruited and hired a global team of continental and country leaders to serve a talent network for thousands.

Launched and managed a number of initiatives including Scholarships for Women, Speaker's Network, Mentor's Network, Open Source Grants, skilled volunteer partnerships, continental events roadtrips, global coworking weeks, offsite retreats, and more.

Systematized a successful technical skills education program that consistently resulted in an 85% graduation rate for in-demand skills such as Xamarin, Shopify, Angular, Blockchain, React, and React Native.

Overhauled employer branding including a full revamp of public web pages on the Toptal corporate website. 

Developed and maintained a number of longstanding strategic partnerships.

Head of Community

Consulted and influenced startups and medium-sized businesses on their technical talent-hiring needs.

Owned all sales team product enhancements and was responsible for
discovering and correcting platform errors that were costing the company
hundreds of thousands in potential lost revenues.

Client Partner

Mercedes-Benz Canada

Finance Manager

Sony Mobile Communications

Responsible for Western Canadian regional carrier operations and partnerships,
I signed and managed two new carrier accounts that collectively held 85% of the
market.
Planned logistics and pricing for more than ten launch-to-end-of-lifecycle
products.

Key Account Manager

Owning the mid-western Canadian market, I actively managed over 800 carrier
retail locations as the primary POC for Sony Mobile.
Achieved the highest online search hits for Sony handsets in all Canadian
regions.

Product Representative

Mosaic Sales Solutions

Program Coordinator

Marketplace Nerd | Startup Advisor & Board Member | Fractional Exec

Marketplace nerd, future of work evangelist, startup advisor, community architect, fractional CMO, CCMP change management professional, retired digital nomad, super connector, remote work hipster, avid crocheter, and dog mom.

What I do for work - I niche out in hypergrowth scale-ups, talent networks and marketplaces, and companies that are undergoing massive amounts of tumultuous change. I'm a data-driven people person that measures feelings and operationalizes culture in a meaningful way. When you figure out what makes people tick, you can deliver messaging and value that converts.

In my spare time - I can often be found traveling and visiting tech communities and meetups around the world. I am a regular speaker at conferences and often volunteer my time for a variety of causes surrounding the refugee crisis, animal welfare, education, and mentorship.

Ask me about: Fav coffee spots, nomadism, travel tips, memes, dad jokes, and pictures of my dog.

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