Matias Rizzo

Matias Rizzo

Matias Rizzo

Matias Rizzo

Founding Designer

Founding Designer

Founding Designer

  • "His ability to excel as a one-man design team for so many years has not only significantly influenced Lodgify's product design but has also significantly contributed to get the company to where it is today…"

    Dennis Klett

    Founder of Lodgify

  • "Leading our Design System project, Matias demonstrated his strategic thinking and technical skills, making our design work more unified and efficient…"

    Weronika Olejniczak

    Fron-end at Lodgify

  • "His expertise on problem discovery and solution design helped us take many decisions. His ability to focus on facts rather than assumptions helped us define a solution that serves the user with respect to their goal."

    Can Izbul

    Senior Product Manager at Lodgify

  • "With a clear focus on UI but questioning assumptions with data, he was a key player to develop a solution to help us grow our direct bookings."

    Vinicius D'Ambros

    Product Manager at Lodgify

  • "His ability to excel as a one-man design team for so many years has not only significantly influenced Lodgify's product design but has also significantly contributed to get the company to where it is today…"

    Mirko Schmiedl

    Founder & CEO at Staking Rewards

  • "His ability to excel as a one-man design team for so many years has not only significantly influenced Lodgify's product design but has also significantly contributed to get the company to where it is today…"

    Benedikt Girz

    Product Lead at Staking Rewards

  • "Matias went out of his way to research why we were making the decision we were making, to understand how our decisions were impacting the business and to look at the data so we could strategize our next move."

    Afonso Urbano

    Product Manager at Staking Rewards

  • "His ability to excel as a one-man design team for so many years has not only significantly influenced Lodgify's product design but has also significantly contributed to get the company to where it is today…"

    Jannik Schimiedl

    Co-Founder & CTO at Staking Rewards

  • "His ability to excel as a one-man design team for so many years has not only significantly influenced Lodgify's product design but has also significantly contributed to get the company to where it is today…"

    Hady Mahmoud

    Head of Engineering at Staking Rewards

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Last Experience

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Staking Rewards

Staff Product Designer

Remote. 2024 → 2026

  • Defined the product’s design vision and scaled its design infrastructure.

  • Evolved the Stake App from V1→V2, improving clarity and user retention.

  • Built a unified design system reducing time-to-market for new features.

  • Redesigned the global navigation to enhance discovery, context, and persistency.

  • Designed the Verified Staking Providers (VSP) platform, enabling users to manage their profiles.

  • Defined and led the new design direction following Staking Rewards’ spin-off from Looping Collective.

  • Designed and iterated the full experience for the Verified Staking Providers (VSP) platform.

  • Partnered with leadership to tie design outcomes directly to company-level KPIs.

Time-to-market

+50%

Design system

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-37%

Above the fold

Stake Leads

+15.2%

Above the fold

Retention

+12.1%

Stake App

Lodgify

Founding Designer

Barcelona. 2014 – 2024

Key impact: Helped the company scale design maturity from “product chaos” to unified design culture, reducing design debt and accelerating feature delivery.

  • Built and led the design team during Lodgify’s early growth stage.

  • Defined the product’s UX vision and implemented data-informed design practices.

  • Established the company’s first design system to ensure product-wide consistency.

  • Led the redesign of the website builder, improving usability and conversion.

  • Collaborated cross-functionally to align user experience with business goals.

  • Introduced psychology-driven design insights that informed key product decisions.

Churn

9% → 0%

Messaging

Total Revenue

0% → 28%

Payments

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20% → 46%

Analytics

Playbook

  • Start from purpose, not features.

  • Decide with evidence, even when data is imperfect.

  • Focus on what’s central; push the rest to the periphery.

  • Use design as a lever for business impact, not decoration.

  • Build systems that ship, scale, and prove value in reality.

About me

I’ve spent over 20 years working in design, much of that journey within startups. Environments where design lives alongside uncertainty, decisions are made in motion, and real impact matters more than theory.

Over the years, I’ve worked both as a solo designer and as a product lead, supporting founders and teams through different stages of growth. That experience gave me the judgment to prioritize well, build with intent, and approach design as part of a broader system.

I’ve also been fortunate to learn alongside highly talented people — growing professionally through collaboration, mistakes, and continuous improvement.