Georgie Bird

Head of Design, Hatch

Sydney

Georgie is the head of design at Hatch, where she started as the first employee tasked with building & launching the MVP, and now leads product strategy & design. Hatch is a startup on a mission to help all people find & do meaningful work, originally focused on students & graduates, placing students in employers like Westpac, Domain, Atlassian, J.P. Morgan, Qantas & Spotify. More recently Hatch has rapidly launched the Hatch Exchange in response to COVID-19 - a labour exchange to help stood down workers find redeployment opportunities during the crisis.

Georgie has a mix of UX/UI, product & startup experience. She is passionate about mission led design & seeks to build technology that positively contributes to our collective human experience, and gives more democratic access to the benefits of the digital economy - one of the most critical being fair access to stable & meaningful work.