Mat Klicz

I’m a designer who enjoys working on complex problems — from product platforms to brand systems — and making them feel simple and human.

Portrait

Experience

Head Of Design

  • Led and scaled the design function across product, brand, and marketing, owning the end-to-end experience across all customer touchpoints.
  • Operated with a high level of autonomy, tackling complex and often undefined challenges across product, brand, and marketing.
  • Defined and drove design strategy, shaping product direction, feature definition, and prioritisation.
  • Shaped core product experiences hands-on, designing interaction models for a remote-first, lean-back TV environment.
  • Oversaw end-to-end design delivery across key product areas, from concept through execution.
  • Built and mentored a multidisciplinary design team, establishing processes, raising quality standards, and improving consistency.
  • Drove cross-functional rollout of product and design initiatives across multiple markets, ensuring alignment across teams.
  • Established and scaled design systems across product and marketing, improving efficiency and consistency.
  • Directed creative output across TV advertising, on-platform visuals, and marketing campaigns, ensuring a cohesive experience.
  • Shaped a TV-aligned app experience supporting US market expansion, contributing to investor confidence and growth initiatives.

UI Designer

  • Led design across integrated campaigns, connecting brand, digital, and product touchpoints into cohesive user experiences.
  • Drove creative direction from brief to execution, aligning brand objectives with user experience and engagement.
  • Worked across multidisciplinary teams (strategy, copy, motion, development), driving consistency and quality across outputs.
  • Delivered end-to-end design for campaigns, from concept through execution across multiple channels.
  • Applied design thinking to campaign development, improving clarity, usability, and overall effectiveness of digital experiences.
  • Shaped digital experiences and user flows within campaigns, ensuring usability alongside strong visual direction.
  • Contributed to pitching and concept development, shaping ideas that supported business growth and client acquisition.
  • Ensured consistency of visual language and experience across campaigns and platforms.
  • Acted as a bridge between brand and digital, aligning creative output with user experience and product-like thinking.

Global Visual Designer

  • Led design across marketing and CRM collateral, improving quality and alignment for multiple global betting brands.
  • Worked within a large-scale external team embedded inside the wider group.
  • Contributed to a full brand rollout, supporting activation across acquisition, CRM, product, and marketing touchpoints.
  • Defined campaign concepts and execution in collaboration with multiple teams and stakeholders.
  • Refined promotional assets and product-led visual experiences, ensuring clarity and impact across sportsbook and casino products.
  • Played a key role in identity rollout and visual consistency across bwin touchpoints.
  • Collaborated closely with senior teams in leadership, brand, product, and design to ensure cohesive delivery.

Freelance & Contract Designer

Various roles including studios and leading brands.

  • Delivered end-to-end design across websites, digital products, and interactive experiences, adapting to different business needs and project scopes.
  • Led design initiatives from concept to execution, ensuring alignment between business goals, user needs, and visual direction.
  • Designed primarily marketing and product websites, alongside selected lightweight digital products and interactive presentations.
  • Worked across multidisciplinary teams, collaborating with product, marketing, and development stakeholders.
  • Provided design leadership on selected projects, shaping direction, improving quality, and supporting delivery.
  • Managed multiple projects simultaneously, maintaining high standards and meeting tight deadlines.
  • Delivered projects for leading agencies including McCann, FCB Inferno, WCRS, Geometry Global, and Kitcatt Nohr.

Digital Designer

  • Worked on integrated campaigns for major brands including McDonald’s, Aussie, and Max Factor, contributing to both concept development and execution.
  • Designed campaign assets across digital, print, and out-of-home, including Piccadilly Circus screen work.
  • Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams across art direction, copywriting, and strategy to deliver cohesive creative output.
  • Contributed to early digital and product work, including design of a tablet-based retail application for in-store use.
  • Contributed to establishing one of the first digital-focused teams within the London office.
  • Supported development of creative concepts from initial ideas through to final execution in a fast-paced agency environment.

Graphic Designer

Various roles including printing.com and Sandals Resorts.

  • Built foundational knowledge in branding, print, and production across agency and in-house roles.
  • Co-founded a small design initiative, delivering freelance work alongside studies.

Education

BA (Hons) Graphic Design – First Class

Focus on visual communication, typography, and digital design. Early hands-on experience through co-founding a small design studio alongside studies.

Skills

  • Integrated design across product, brand, and marketing
  • Connecting product, brand, and marketing into cohesive experiences
  • Design systems and scalable design
  • Cross-functional collaboration (product, engineering, marketing)
  • Translating business goals into clear and effective design solutions
  • Team mentoring and design leadership
  • User experience and interaction design

Tools & Technologies

Figma, Adobe Creative Suite
HTML, CSS, Webflow
Jira, Slack, Miro
AI: Claude, Codex, Midjourney, Firefly, Veo

Interests

  • Graffiti and street art
  • Producing UK garage, drum & bass, and hip-hop
  • Mobile gaming
  • Go-karting

Mat Klicz

I’m a designer who enjoys working on complex problems — from product platforms to brand systems — and making them feel simple and human.

Portrait

Experience

Head Of Design

  • Led and scaled the design function across product, brand, and marketing, owning the end-to-end experience across all customer touchpoints.
  • Operated with a high level of autonomy, tackling complex and often undefined challenges across product, brand, and marketing.
  • Defined and drove design strategy, shaping product direction, feature definition, and prioritisation.
  • Shaped core product experiences hands-on, designing interaction models for a remote-first, lean-back TV environment.
  • Oversaw end-to-end design delivery across key product areas, from concept through execution.
  • Built and mentored a multidisciplinary design team, establishing processes, raising quality standards, and improving consistency.
  • Drove cross-functional rollout of product and design initiatives across multiple markets, ensuring alignment across teams.
  • Established and scaled design systems across product and marketing, improving efficiency and consistency.
  • Directed creative output across TV advertising, on-platform visuals, and marketing campaigns, ensuring a cohesive experience.
  • Shaped a TV-aligned app experience supporting US market expansion, contributing to investor confidence and growth initiatives.

UI Designer

  • Led design across integrated campaigns, connecting brand, digital, and product touchpoints into cohesive user experiences.
  • Drove creative direction from brief to execution, aligning brand objectives with user experience and engagement.
  • Worked across multidisciplinary teams (strategy, copy, motion, development), driving consistency and quality across outputs.
  • Delivered end-to-end design for campaigns, from concept through execution across multiple channels.
  • Applied design thinking to campaign development, improving clarity, usability, and overall effectiveness of digital experiences.
  • Shaped digital experiences and user flows within campaigns, ensuring usability alongside strong visual direction.
  • Contributed to pitching and concept development, shaping ideas that supported business growth and client acquisition.
  • Ensured consistency of visual language and experience across campaigns and platforms.
  • Acted as a bridge between brand and digital, aligning creative output with user experience and product-like thinking.

Global Visual Designer

  • Led design across marketing and CRM collateral, improving quality and alignment for multiple global betting brands.
  • Worked within a large-scale external team embedded inside the wider group.
  • Contributed to a full brand rollout, supporting activation across acquisition, CRM, product, and marketing touchpoints.
  • Defined campaign concepts and execution in collaboration with multiple teams and stakeholders.
  • Refined promotional assets and product-led visual experiences, ensuring clarity and impact across sportsbook and casino products.
  • Played a key role in identity rollout and visual consistency across bwin touchpoints.
  • Collaborated closely with senior teams in leadership, brand, product, and design to ensure cohesive delivery.

Freelance & Contract Designer

Various roles including studios and leading brands.

  • Delivered end-to-end design across websites, digital products, and interactive experiences, adapting to different business needs and project scopes.
  • Led design initiatives from concept to execution, ensuring alignment between business goals, user needs, and visual direction.
  • Designed primarily marketing and product websites, alongside selected lightweight digital products and interactive presentations.
  • Worked across multidisciplinary teams, collaborating with product, marketing, and development stakeholders.
  • Provided design leadership on selected projects, shaping direction, improving quality, and supporting delivery.
  • Managed multiple projects simultaneously, maintaining high standards and meeting tight deadlines.
  • Delivered projects for leading agencies including McCann, FCB Inferno, WCRS, Geometry Global, and Kitcatt Nohr.

Digital Designer

  • Worked on integrated campaigns for major brands including McDonald’s, Aussie, and Max Factor, contributing to both concept development and execution.
  • Designed campaign assets across digital, print, and out-of-home, including Piccadilly Circus screen work.
  • Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams across art direction, copywriting, and strategy to deliver cohesive creative output.
  • Contributed to early digital and product work, including design of a tablet-based retail application for in-store use.
  • Contributed to establishing one of the first digital-focused teams within the London office.
  • Supported development of creative concepts from initial ideas through to final execution in a fast-paced agency environment.

Graphic Designer

Various roles including printing.com and Sandals Resorts.

  • Built foundational knowledge in branding, print, and production across agency and in-house roles.
  • Co-founded a small design initiative, delivering freelance work alongside studies.

Education

BA (Hons) Graphic Design – First Class

Focus on visual communication, typography, and digital design. Early hands-on experience through co-founding a small design studio alongside studies.

Skills

  • Integrated design across product, brand, and marketing
  • Connecting product, brand, and marketing into cohesive experiences
  • Design systems and scalable design
  • Cross-functional collaboration (product, engineering, marketing)
  • Translating business goals into clear and effective design solutions
  • Team mentoring and design leadership
  • User experience and interaction design

Tools & Technologies

Figma, Adobe Creative Suite
HTML, CSS, Webflow
Jira, Slack, Miro
AI: Claude, Codex, Midjourney, Firefly, Veo

Interests

  • Graffiti and street art
  • Producing UK garage, drum & bass, and hip-hop
  • Mobile gaming
  • Go-karting

Mat Klicz

I’m a designer who enjoys working on complex problems — from product platforms to brand systems — and making them feel simple and human.

Portrait

Experience

Head Of Design

  • Led and scaled the design function across product, brand, and marketing, owning the end-to-end experience across all customer touchpoints.
  • Operated with a high level of autonomy, tackling complex and often undefined challenges across product, brand, and marketing.
  • Defined and drove design strategy, shaping product direction, feature definition, and prioritisation.
  • Shaped core product experiences hands-on, designing interaction models for a remote-first, lean-back TV environment.
  • Oversaw end-to-end design delivery across key product areas, from concept through execution.
  • Built and mentored a multidisciplinary design team, establishing processes, raising quality standards, and improving consistency.
  • Drove cross-functional rollout of product and design initiatives across multiple markets, ensuring alignment across teams.
  • Established and scaled design systems across product and marketing, improving efficiency and consistency.
  • Directed creative output across TV advertising, on-platform visuals, and marketing campaigns, ensuring a cohesive experience.
  • Shaped a TV-aligned app experience supporting US market expansion, contributing to investor confidence and growth initiatives.

UI Designer

  • Led design across integrated campaigns, connecting brand, digital, and product touchpoints into cohesive user experiences.
  • Drove creative direction from brief to execution, aligning brand objectives with user experience and engagement.
  • Worked across multidisciplinary teams (strategy, copy, motion, development), driving consistency and quality across outputs.
  • Delivered end-to-end design for campaigns, from concept through execution across multiple channels.
  • Applied design thinking to campaign development, improving clarity, usability, and overall effectiveness of digital experiences.
  • Shaped digital experiences and user flows within campaigns, ensuring usability alongside strong visual direction.
  • Contributed to pitching and concept development, shaping ideas that supported business growth and client acquisition.
  • Ensured consistency of visual language and experience across campaigns and platforms.
  • Acted as a bridge between brand and digital, aligning creative output with user experience and product-like thinking.

Global Visual Designer

  • Led design across marketing and CRM collateral, improving quality and alignment for multiple global betting brands.
  • Worked within a large-scale external team embedded inside the wider group.
  • Contributed to a full brand rollout, supporting activation across acquisition, CRM, product, and marketing touchpoints.
  • Defined campaign concepts and execution in collaboration with multiple teams and stakeholders.
  • Refined promotional assets and product-led visual experiences, ensuring clarity and impact across sportsbook and casino products.
  • Played a key role in identity rollout and visual consistency across bwin touchpoints.
  • Collaborated closely with senior teams in leadership, brand, product, and design to ensure cohesive delivery.

Freelance & Contract Designer

Various roles including studios and leading brands.

  • Delivered end-to-end design across websites, digital products, and interactive experiences, adapting to different business needs and project scopes.
  • Led design initiatives from concept to execution, ensuring alignment between business goals, user needs, and visual direction.
  • Designed primarily marketing and product websites, alongside selected lightweight digital products and interactive presentations.
  • Worked across multidisciplinary teams, collaborating with product, marketing, and development stakeholders.
  • Provided design leadership on selected projects, shaping direction, improving quality, and supporting delivery.
  • Managed multiple projects simultaneously, maintaining high standards and meeting tight deadlines.
  • Delivered projects for leading agencies including McCann, FCB Inferno, WCRS, Geometry Global, and Kitcatt Nohr.

Digital Designer

  • Worked on integrated campaigns for major brands including McDonald’s, Aussie, and Max Factor, contributing to both concept development and execution.
  • Designed campaign assets across digital, print, and out-of-home, including Piccadilly Circus screen work.
  • Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams across art direction, copywriting, and strategy to deliver cohesive creative output.
  • Contributed to early digital and product work, including design of a tablet-based retail application for in-store use.
  • Contributed to establishing one of the first digital-focused teams within the London office.
  • Supported development of creative concepts from initial ideas through to final execution in a fast-paced agency environment.

Graphic Designer

Various roles including printing.com and Sandals Resorts.

  • Built foundational knowledge in branding, print, and production across agency and in-house roles.
  • Co-founded a small design initiative, delivering freelance work alongside studies.

Education

BA (Hons) Graphic Design – First Class

Focus on visual communication, typography, and digital design. Early hands-on experience through co-founding a small design studio alongside studies.

Skills

  • Integrated design across product, brand, and marketing
  • Connecting product, brand, and marketing into cohesive experiences
  • Design systems and scalable design
  • Cross-functional collaboration (product, engineering, marketing)
  • Translating business goals into clear and effective design solutions
  • Team mentoring and design leadership
  • User experience and interaction design

Tools & Technologies

Figma, Adobe Creative Suite
HTML, CSS, Webflow
Jira, Slack, Miro
AI: Claude, Codex, Midjourney, Firefly, Veo

Interests

  • Graffiti and street art
  • Producing UK garage, drum & bass, and hip-hop
  • Mobile gaming
  • Go-karting

Mat Klicz

I’m a designer who enjoys working on complex problems — from product platforms to brand systems — and making them feel simple and human.

Portrait

Experience

Head Of Design

  • Led and scaled the design function across product, brand, and marketing, owning the end-to-end experience across all customer touchpoints.
  • Operated with a high level of autonomy, tackling complex and often undefined challenges across product, brand, and marketing.
  • Defined and drove design strategy, shaping product direction, feature definition, and prioritisation.
  • Shaped core product experiences hands-on, designing interaction models for a remote-first, lean-back TV environment.
  • Oversaw end-to-end design delivery across key product areas, from concept through execution.
  • Built and mentored a multidisciplinary design team, establishing processes, raising quality standards, and improving consistency.
  • Drove cross-functional rollout of product and design initiatives across multiple markets, ensuring alignment across teams.
  • Established and scaled design systems across product and marketing, improving efficiency and consistency.
  • Directed creative output across TV advertising, on-platform visuals, and marketing campaigns, ensuring a cohesive experience.
  • Shaped a TV-aligned app experience supporting US market expansion, contributing to investor confidence and growth initiatives.

UI Designer

  • Led design across integrated campaigns, connecting brand, digital, and product touchpoints into cohesive user experiences.
  • Drove creative direction from brief to execution, aligning brand objectives with user experience and engagement.
  • Worked across multidisciplinary teams (strategy, copy, motion, development), driving consistency and quality across outputs.
  • Delivered end-to-end design for campaigns, from concept through execution across multiple channels.
  • Applied design thinking to campaign development, improving clarity, usability, and overall effectiveness of digital experiences.
  • Shaped digital experiences and user flows within campaigns, ensuring usability alongside strong visual direction.
  • Contributed to pitching and concept development, shaping ideas that supported business growth and client acquisition.
  • Ensured consistency of visual language and experience across campaigns and platforms.
  • Acted as a bridge between brand and digital, aligning creative output with user experience and product-like thinking.

Global Visual Designer

  • Led design across marketing and CRM collateral, improving quality and alignment for multiple global betting brands.
  • Worked within a large-scale external team embedded inside the wider group.
  • Contributed to a full brand rollout, supporting activation across acquisition, CRM, product, and marketing touchpoints.
  • Defined campaign concepts and execution in collaboration with multiple teams and stakeholders.
  • Refined promotional assets and product-led visual experiences, ensuring clarity and impact across sportsbook and casino products.
  • Played a key role in identity rollout and visual consistency across bwin touchpoints.
  • Collaborated closely with senior teams in leadership, brand, product, and design to ensure cohesive delivery.

Freelance & Contract Designer

Various roles including studios and leading brands.

  • Delivered end-to-end design across websites, digital products, and interactive experiences, adapting to different business needs and project scopes.
  • Led design initiatives from concept to execution, ensuring alignment between business goals, user needs, and visual direction.
  • Designed primarily marketing and product websites, alongside selected lightweight digital products and interactive presentations.
  • Worked across multidisciplinary teams, collaborating with product, marketing, and development stakeholders.
  • Provided design leadership on selected projects, shaping direction, improving quality, and supporting delivery.
  • Managed multiple projects simultaneously, maintaining high standards and meeting tight deadlines.
  • Delivered projects for leading agencies including McCann, FCB Inferno, WCRS, Geometry Global, and Kitcatt Nohr.

Digital Designer

  • Worked on integrated campaigns for major brands including McDonald’s, Aussie, and Max Factor, contributing to both concept development and execution.
  • Designed campaign assets across digital, print, and out-of-home, including Piccadilly Circus screen work.
  • Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams across art direction, copywriting, and strategy to deliver cohesive creative output.
  • Contributed to early digital and product work, including design of a tablet-based retail application for in-store use.
  • Contributed to establishing one of the first digital-focused teams within the London office.
  • Supported development of creative concepts from initial ideas through to final execution in a fast-paced agency environment.

Graphic Designer

Various roles including printing.com and Sandals Resorts.

  • Built foundational knowledge in branding, print, and production across agency and in-house roles.
  • Co-founded a small design initiative, delivering freelance work alongside studies.

Education

BA (Hons) Graphic Design – First Class

Focus on visual communication, typography, and digital design. Early hands-on experience through co-founding a small design studio alongside studies.

Skills

  • Integrated design across product, brand, and marketing
  • Connecting product, brand, and marketing into cohesive experiences
  • Design systems and scalable design
  • Cross-functional collaboration (product, engineering, marketing)
  • Translating business goals into clear and effective design solutions
  • Team mentoring and design leadership
  • User experience and interaction design

Tools & Technologies

Figma, Adobe Creative Suite
HTML, CSS, Webflow
Jira, Slack, Miro
AI: Claude, Codex, Midjourney, Firefly, Veo

Interests

  • Graffiti and street art
  • Producing UK garage, drum & bass, and hip-hop
  • Mobile gaming
  • Go-karting