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Katie Dill

Katie Dill is a design executive whom public sources from 2021 to 2023 describe as Head of Design at the payments company Stripe. She previously led design at Lyft and Airbnb and earlier worked at the design consultancy frog design.

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Before 2017Working at frog design and Airbnb

Dill was a creative director at the design consultancy frog design in San Francisco, and also served as a partner at Greenstart Ventures and taught in the graduate design program at California College of the Arts (CCA).⁠[1][2]

She then joined Airbnb as Director of Experience Design, where she led the company’s rebrand and grew the team from about 10 to about 100 people.⁠[2][1]

October 2017Becoming VP of Design at Lyft

In October 2017, ride-hailing company Lyft announced that it had hired Dill as Vice President of Design. The design group she led at Lyft spanned digital, service and industrial design, along with illustration, animation, writing and research.⁠[1][2]

2017–2019Industry Recognition

She was named one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2017, one of Business InsiderBusiness InsiderBusiness Insider is a digital business-news organization.Open the full entry’s 10 People Transforming Technology in 2019, and received Girls in Tech’s “Creator of the Year” award the same year.⁠[2][3]

As of September 2021: Head of Design at Stripe

An article published by Designer Fund in September 2021 described Dill as Stripe’s new Head of Design; a Lenny’s Podcast interview released in October 2023 still introduced her in that role.⁠[4][5]

Related Organizations, Websites, and Public Accounts

X: Public account: https://x.com/lil_dill (opens in a new window)⁠[5]

Sources

  1. Lyft hires Katie Dill as VP of Design (opens in a new window)
  2. Katie Dill (opens in a new window)
  3. Katie Dill (opens in a new window)
  4. Embedding Design into the Fiber of Fintech (opens in a new window)
  5. Building beautiful products with Stripe’s Head of Design | Katie Dill (Stripe, Airbnb, Lyft) (opens in a new window)