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Katya K.

Design Manager

United States12 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building high-performing design teams.
  • Proven track record in user-centered product design.
  • Strong background in AI-driven logistics systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Design Leader with expertise in User Experience and Design Strategy.

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Skills

Core Skills

User Experience DesignProduct StrategyDesign Direction

Other Skills

User ResearchHiringArchitectural DesignUrban DesignRevitAutoCADRhinoSketchUpSustainable DesignAdobe Creative SuiteLean ThinkingUser Experience TestingMobile DesignWeb DesignWeb Development

About

Interdisciplinary design leader passionate about building healthy, high-performing teams and creating high-quality products that solve real-world challenges. I have a keen eye for detail & craft and adept organizational and program management skills. I work well under deadlines in a changing environment, self-motivated and driven to see goals obtained.

Experience

Doordash

Senior Product Design Manager, New Verticals Fullfillment

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Supporting the New Verticals Fulfillment design team in developing customer-centric, AI-driven logistics systems and shopper experiences. Focused on enabling the company’s expansion into key verticals—grocery, convenience, retail, and alcohol—to strengthen local commerce and ensure every order is delivered quickly, accurately, and affordably.
User Experience DesignUser ResearchProduct Strategy

Meta

Senior Product Design Manager

Jun 2020May 2025 · 4 yrs 11 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · Remote

  • Led the design teams for the Metaverse Avatars & Identity org that’s responsible for ensuring a seamless and unified avatar experience across platforms. Our work spans all consumer-facing avatar experiences across Meta's current and future platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Quest and Horizon Worlds, and third-party applications that have integrated our Avatars SDK. My role involves overseeing teams focused on avatar creation, personalization, and new use cases such as expression and social connections.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Built and scaled the team from ground up, established ways of working & collaboration model
  • Established the design vision that defines how we can win with our product strategy
  • Upheld the quality and craft, defined visual design systems
  • Took a lead on a set of high-stakes strategic projects
HiringDesign DirectionProduct Strategy

Oculus vr

2 roles

Product Design Manager @ Reality Labs

Oct 2018Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Led the design teams on the Horizon community building & integrity and Quest Social Platform that’s responsible for the platform-level social layer and functionality across all Quest devices.

Product Designer

Sep 2016Sep 2018 · 2 yrs

  • Led the design for a range of products including 360 Media and Spatial Workstation (software suit for spatial audio), Facebook Spaces, Portal & Hardware Innovations lab, Facebook Horizon.

Emergent vr

Lead Product Designer

Dec 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr

  • Emergent is a platform that enables an accessible consumer capture of live action immersive videos using mobile that you can view & share in virtual reality. I led the design of our mobile and Gear VR social platforms including product strategy, branding and user research.

Wetravel.to

Lead Product Designer

Mar 2015Dec 2015 · 9 mos · San Francisco, CA

  • WeTravel is the online tool for anyone organizing a group trip. I led the cross-functional team in user research and re-design of WeTravel website and core product.

Perkins+will

Architect

Apr 2014Mar 2015 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Perkins+Will is an interdisciplinary, research-based architecture and design firm. I worked on a high-profile international project in Middle East and followed the project from concept design to construction documents.

Nautilus group, inc

Architectural Designer

Apr 2013Apr 2014 · 1 yr · Berkeley, CA

  • Nautilus Group is a vertically-integrated Design, Engineering, Construction, Manufacturing, Technology and Real Estate Development firm. I assisted with modular urban-infill projects through all stages of entitlement, design and construction documentation.

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) — Architecture

Jan 2011Jan 2013

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Architecture & Structural Engineering — Architecture

Jan 2008Jan 2011

Vyatka State University, Kirov, Russian Federation

Bachelor's degree — Civil Engineering

Jan 2004Jan 2007

Tradecraft

Product Design + Engineering

Jan 2015Present

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