PJ Mason

Design Leader | Industrial & UX/UI Design | 20+ Years Experience

About

Designer, maker, leader, entrepreneur, mentor, and lecturer with over 20 years of corporate and consulting experience in Industrial and UX/UI Design. I believe that great product experiences are built on a strong strategic foundation of deep user empathy, and are delivered via hands-on prototyping, rapid visualization, and user co-creation. I am a highly motivated leader and collaborator with a passion for creating and enabling teams and capabilities that create value and opportunities to step change industries.

Experience Highlights

P&G Oral Care & Smart Products

Senior Director, Design | 2014–Present

Leading design organizations across North America, China, and Europe. Responsible for vision development and category re-platforming programs delivering hundreds of millions in topline growth.

Oral-B iO

Design Leadership

Led vision and design development for award-winning Oral-B iO platform. Multiple international design awards including German Design Award Gold, iF Design Award, Red Dot, and CES Innovation Award.

Digital Design Capability

P&G First

Led development of P&G's first Digital Design Capability, transitioning from external resources to fully internalized capability deployed against the category's biggest consumer Jobs-to-be-Done.

Core Capabilities

Design Leadership Design Thinking UX/UI Design Industrial Design Prototyping Innovation Strategy Portfolio Management Team Building Fusion 360 Figma Adobe Creative Suite Front-end Development

Recognition

German Design Award - Gold Oral-B iO, Oral-B Clic, Oral-B Smart Series 7000 App
iF Design Award Oral-B iO, Oral-B Clic
Red Dot Award Oral-B iO, Oral-B Clic, Oral-B Smart Series 7000 App
CES Innovation Award Oral-B iO
Cannes Lion - Bronze Oral-B Smart Series 7000 App
Nielsen Norman Group User Experience Certification

Education

University of Cincinnati
Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design, 1999
Industrial Design Student of the Year


Harvard Business School - Executive Education
Launching New Ventures (2014)
Leading Product Innovation (2010)