Dana Sasinowski

Design Manager

Seattle, Washington, United States18 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 15 years of experience in human-centered design.
  • Led cross-functional teams at Meta and Amazon.
  • Designed products used by hundreds of millions globally.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Consumer Electronics and Education specialist with a strong focus on user experience design.

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I'm a human centered designer and have spent my last 15 years in tech leading cross functional teams to ship products spanning consumer hardware, AI, B2B platforms, multimodal and futuristic interaction design spaces. I’ve learned how to motivate and support multi-disciplinary teams, scale global product launches, and design lovable experiences used by hundreds of millions of customers.

Experience

Meta

3 roles

Senior Product Design Manager

Promoted

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Leading the Wearables Interaction Model design team, which is responsible for creating coherent, consistent, and predictable input & interaction systems for novel tech like AR and AI glasses.

Principal Product Designer

Feb 2023Aug 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Systems UX Design Lead supporting multi disciplinary teams building interaction models for smart glasses. Advocate for big idea design thinking across different audiences and all levels of the organization including executive management.

Senior Product Designer

Aug 2020Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Designing voice and AI experiences for new hardware in Reality Labs, with a focus on smart glasses, augmented reality, interaction models, privacy, and responsible innovation.

School of visual concepts

Voice UX Instructor

Feb 2019Jun 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • I teach workshops on voice user interface design, covering foundational concepts of human verbal communication, speech recognition technology, and how human-centered design is applied to voice product design.

Amazon

2 roles

Senior Voice UX Designer

Promoted

Jul 2017Jul 2020 · 3 yrs

  • Designing lovable Alexa experiences used by millions of people globally. Working across the speech technology pipeline (ASR, NLU, dialog management, neural TTS) to design conversational features, new hardware, multimodal design, and persona development.

Lead UX PM

Feb 2014Jul 2017 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Oversee a team of User Experience Designers, Researchers, and Design Technologists, partnering with business and technology teams. Institute a design-centric workflow for product launches, optimizing for the planning, design, and implementation of the highest quality creative product for UX deliverables.

Prime research

Sr Manager - product management

Sep 2010Feb 2014 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Led team expansion and analyst methodology for the financial industry, a new client sector, from the ground up. On-boarded several of PRIME's largest accounts to date, including communications and public relations executives from (5) Fortune 500 corporations. Managed and grew a global 50 + person organization to support expanding financial sector client base.

Self-employed

French Tutor

Aug 2010Aug 2011 · 1 yr · Brighton, MI

Michigan state university | language learning center

Instructor

Oct 2008Sep 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos · East Lansing, MI

Brighton area schools

Preschool Teacher

May 2007Sep 2010 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Brighton, MI

Education

University of Washington

Master’s Degree — Human Centered Design & Engineering

Michigan State University

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