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Paul Gubbay
Chief Product Officer at Squarespace
Paul Gubbay is the Chief Product Officer at Squarespace, the design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online, where he leads the company’s rapidly expanding product management and product design operations.
With more than two decades of experience in design-forward, product-led initiatives, Gubbay oversees the continuing integration and growth of Squarespace’s suite of products, which brings award-winning design and world-class engineering to millions of creators and small businesses. Under Paul’s leadership, Squarespace has further diversified its ecommerce offering, enabling customers to explore multimodal selling through products, services, content and community.
Paul has spent over 25 years providing solutions for creative professionals and business communicators with extensive leadership experience, industry knowledge, and scale. Most recently, Paul spent 15 years at Adobe as VP of Design and Web Engineering, focused on a wide span of Adobe's Creative Cloud products including Illustrator, Indesign, XD and Spark. In that time, he also acquired 4 companies for Adobe. He joined Adobe through its acquisition of Macromedia in 2005, where he ran product development for multiple products including Flash Professional, FlexBuilder 1.0, Dreamweaver and Flash Remoting. Before that, he was Co-Founder and CEO of CyberSage, a flash application software company that was acquired by Macromedia in 2003.
