Matej Hrescak

Curriculum Vitae

I’m a product designer based in New York, originally from Slovakia. Currently, I serve as the Director of Product Design at Personio, a company that builds HR software. Before that, I led design at startups like Config and Prisma, following my time at Facebook. Originally trained as an industrial designer with a focus on transportation design.

2023

Joined Personio’s Design Architecture team, driving high-impact and company-wide initiatives. Personio is Europe’s leading HR platform.

K G Z C M P W

2021

My daughter was born.

2021

Started at Config as the sole designer. Config is a tool that streamlines hardware development, focusing on consumer electronics at the intersection of electrical, mechanical, and firmware engineering.

J J P K C

2020

Joined Prisma to lead a small product design team. Prisma is one of the most accessible and widely used tools for working with databases in web development.

J K S H E J

2019

Left Facebook and took a nine-month sabbatical to focus on home renovation and personal projects.

2018

Moved from Palo Alto to New York.

2017

My wife and I welcomed our son.

2013

The Storylane team was acqui-hired by Facebook. There, I initially worked on Profile and related projects before transitioning to the Marketplace team, working on the first version of Facebook Marketplace. Later, I joined the Design Tools team, owning Origami Studio and eventually leading the team and developing multiple internal design and collaboration tools.

J B M V K C J J H C S J C E

2012

Moved from Slovakia to Palo Alto to join Storylane. It was a fun product exploring identity through storytelling. We’ve arrived at it after pivoting from a professional reputation network.

J M S M

2010

Graduated with a degree in Transportation Design from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia. During this period, I worked on various client projects, and a couple of apps that you could call proto-startups.

The idea to include collaborators is very obviously lifted straight from read.cv, an awesome site that is ending its run soon. Thanks Andy!