arc.sequoiacap.com

https://www.culturegraphic.com/

https://www.andreasweiland.com/

In short, we're making Web3 onboarding as frictionless as possible.

Decentralized applications face a massive adoption challenge: Any prospective user interested in trying a dApp must first create a wallet. By and large, wallet creation is a gauntlet consisting of dozens of steps, foreign concepts, and technical jargon leaving the average person feeling confused, defeated, or downright bored.

This amounts to a painful user experience and perhaps more importantly, inhibits the growth of the entire Web3 ecosystem. 

Magic helps dApps reach the 99.9% of the world who have never interacted with a blockchain. We do this by allowing end-users to create and access wallets with familiar, frictionless login methods like email, SMS, and social login.

We're creating the bridge from Web2 and Web3 with the goal of democratizing access and helping the entire ecosystem flourish. 

Our game director is building an indie arcade game called ***[Loose Nozzles](https://loosenozzles.com/)*** with his son.

One of our engineers has a background in urban planning and has led the development of [Streetmix](https://streetmix.net/).

Our [art director](https://danielabensour.com/) works on a variety of personal and consulting projects, including an animation show.

Our CEO, among many many things, advised on data strategy for New York City's COVID response, and literally co-wrote the book on [AI Ethics](https://www.amazon.com/Ethics-Data-Science-Mike-Loukides-ebook/dp/B07GTC8ZN7).

And that's just a few examples!

We're a global team of 7 Product Designers and a UX Researcher. We are 8 spread across Hong Kong, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Spain, San Francisco, the Netherlands and the UK.

We help make work and study more efficient and enjoyable.

**Andrew** – Grew up in the Bay Area and studied computer science and philosophy at Penn. Before joining Retool, he worked at Figma, Facebook, and DoorDash.

**Gadzhi** – Grew up in the Caucasus and got interested in computers at an early age. He was studying law at Moscow University before dropping out to dedicate himself to software design.

**Greg** – Likes roughing it outdoors and tinkering with synthesizers. Prior to Retool, Greg led mobile and adoption teams at Asana.

**Matt** – On a mission to get Vegemite in all Retool kitchens. Wannabe pro cyclist and previously led design teams at Atlassian, Asana, and Dropbox.

**Maya** – Grew up in a small coastal town in Northern China and studied philosophy and journalism in Shanghai. Before Retool, she built geospatial software and data visualization tools.

**Ryan** – Has designed software ranging from design tools to wind farm analytics. He studied Industrial Design at Virginia Tech and has an unusually large dog.

We help founders start, build, and scale enduring companies through a process we call Company Design. 

Current Team [playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3oaTO4qjxZPPd2OcLjxSl5?si=a69c8dc0cbc3469c)

Retool is changing the way software is built. We’ve developed the fastest way to build internal tools, saving companies time, resources, and engineering bandwidth.

We’re designing a new type of development environment that makes it dramatically faster and easier to build internal software. Retool unifies the ease of visual programming with the power of code, while abstracting away the tedious and repetitive tasks of development. We believe that the future of software development lies in being a force multiplier for developers and technical builders, helping them move considerably faster and build *a lot* more software.

Retool designers make decisions that will affect millions of people, from the developers creating software to the employees who operate it every day. Instead of designing just one product, we’re effectively designing unique software products for thousands of companies across many different verticals.

This also presents a unique design challenge. Because it’s possible to build nearly anything in Retool, we don’t have absolute control over how our users experience the product. We’re constantly seeking just the right balance between convention and configuration, between technical expressiveness and conceptual simplicity.

**Magic's mission is to create a passport for the internet.**

We are helping onboard the next billion people to Web3 through secure, accessible, and delightful experiences.

We believe that blockchain technology enables a truly user-centered web, but that brighter future begins with democratizing access and removing barriers to entry.

#### **Authenticity**

We bring our full selves to work each day, communicate honestly, and celebrate what makes us unique.

#### **Customer Empathy**

Everything we do is in service of making life easier, more delightful, and more secure for our customers.

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**Teamwork**

We promote proactive communication and open feedback, solving problems and celebrating wins as a team.

#### **Growth Mindset**

We believe in the importance of embracing failure, learning from mistakes, and iterating quickly.

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**Craft**

We hold ourselves to a high standard, continuously improving in order to achieve mastery in our given fields.

Magic is dedicated to providing best-in-class onboarding experiences and authentication services for developers and their end-users.

We have two core products: **Magic Auth** and **Magic Connect**.

### Magic Auth

Magic Auth is our fully-customizable developer SDK that offers Web3 builders passwordless user authentication paired with decentralized key management.

In other words, when a developer integrates Magic Auth, their users can sign in with traditional methods like email or phone number and generate an associated crypto wallet in the process.

Magic Auth is white-labeled and highly configurable, supporting a wide variety of login methods, development frameworks, blockchain networks, and other customizations. We provide the Lego blocks and let our customers' imaginations run wild.

### Magic Connect

Magic Connect is our new flagship crypto wallet, complete with mainstream-friendly login methods, fiat on-ramps, transaction signing, account management, data sharing, and more.

With Magic Connect, we are able to fully own the end-to-end user experience. We strive to be opinionated, challenging existing Web3 paradigms that are impeding widespread adoption.

Hidden Door is a game technology studio building the first narrative AI — a platform that transforms any work of fiction into an infinite social roleplaying experience, bringing together players, authors and other creators.

We're hiring! <https://www.hiddendoor.co/jobs>\
Join the community: <https://discord.gg/hiddendoor>

At Hidden Door we love games, stories, AI, and AI storytelling games! You can always find us chatting in our community and on Slack.

Every Monday we play a game together! Each week we alternate a fun game (for team bonding) and a research game (for learning from the design). Some games are both, of course.

Also, the whole team meets up quarterly IRL, often internationally, for planning and fun. Recently we've been to New Orleans and Lisbon! Expect adventure 🚀

We try to meet at least 2 x weekly. The majority of us work remotely, and it’s a great chance to bounce ideas around, catch up on projects, discuss things outside of work and have fun.

### Design Review

Weekly on Wednesday with everyone in design and leadership, to review specific UI and UX directions and final screens.

### Designer Aligner

A weekly, hour-long hang out where we typically don’t (usually) talk about work.

Previously, Chelsea taught us an Introduction to Calligraphy inside GoodNotes. Leo guided us to make a Cantonese soup. And in our kitchens, Kim led us in cocktail-making.

We’ve played gartic.io and compared our illustrating abilities… But also watched Teletubbies and heard one speaking Cantonese. And we tried to name every country in the world (all 196) within 15 minutes. We got 157!

### Design Retro

Once per cycle (6 weeks) as a function we’ll talk about what to start, stop, and continue. It’s typically in FigJam.

Figma, UserInterviews, Dovetail, Reduct, Lookback, Typeform, Slack.

We sometimes bring in a different tool for a specific task but this top line are our day in, day out.

Share an interesting side project from a team member

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Software Engineer

Product Designer

Director, Product Design, Growth

Lead Product Designer

Senior Product Designer

Design Partner

Designer, Web Presence

Design Engineer

Head of Design

Founding Engineer

Product Designer, Mobile

Content Marketing Manager

Carbon Strategist

Visual Designer

Product Designers (Multiple)

Product Design Leads (Multiple)

Senior Product Designer, Financial Services

Product Designer - Visual Design

Senior Product Designer - Global (Products)

Senior Product Designer - Health

Senior Product Designer - Core App

Marketing Designer

Brand Designer

Sr. Digital Designer

Senior Product Designer, Web Experiences

Sr. Interaction Designer, Sports

Content Designer (UX Writer) 🇪🇸/🇬🇧

Senior Product Designer 

Recruiting Coordinator

Senior Recruiter - Design

Senior Recruiter - GTM

Director, Product Design

Design Operations Manager

Manager, Product Design

Product Design Managers

Senior Product Designers

Senior Backend Engineer

Software Engineer (Front-end)

Customer Experience and Growth, Manager

Operations Associate

Senior Product Designer: Shop Pay, Loyalty 

Staff Product Designer: Shopping, Consideration

Staff Product Designer: Shopping, Discovery

Senior UX Manager: Shop Pay, Checkout

Product Design Lead 

UX Designer

Sr. Visual Designer

Digital Product Designer

Project Manager / Producer

Working Student Design

Mid-Weight Product Designer

Lead Product Designer, User Motivation

Principal Game Designer, User Motivation

Staff Brand Designer

Staff User Researcher

Senior Product Designer, Activation

Senior User Researcher

Senior Brand Designer, Creative

Senior Product Designer, Designer

User Researcher

Product Designer (Design Systems)

Product Designer (Internal Tools)

Product Engineer, Web

Machine Learning Engineer

Social Media Intern

Design Manager

Senior Product Designer (Growth)

Principal Product Designer

Head of Marketing

co-founder, CEO

co-founder, head of product

Security Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Front-End Engineer

Solidity Engineer

Midweight Frontend Developer

Product Designer, Merchant (Mid-level or Senior, NYC)

Product Designer, Consumer (Mid-level or Senior, NYC or SF)

Front-end Engineer

Back-end Engineer

Web App Engineer

Sr. Full-Stack Engineer

Product Designer, FigJam

Design Manager, Editor

Product Designer, Enterprise

Product Designer, Growth

Head of Communications

UX Writer

Senior DevOps Engineer

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