# Abhishek N. > Design Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/abhishekn Design leader with a deep technical background and extensive experience in product strategy, visual, interaction, and motion design. Over the course of my career, I've led the design of multiple platforms and shipped highly successful hardware and software products — across smart TV, web, mobile, and AR/VR — building, managing, and mentoring product design teams in large and small organizations. ## Work Experience ### Product Design Leadership, Reality Labs @ Meta Jan 2024 – Present I manage the exceptionally talented craftspeople building the economic foundations for Horizon—our mixed reality OS and developer ecosystem—to catalyze the next generation of digital commerce, spanning our AR/VR and family of apps products. ### Head of Product Design, Payments + Connect @ Stripe Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 I led the team of design managers and makers who craft products that power the internet's economy; this includes the products businesses know and love like Checkout, Payment Links, Elements, Radar and Terminal, and the experiences other platforms (food, ridesharing, ecommerce, etc) use to extend our services to the businesses and consumers they serve. ### Product Design Manager @ Meta Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States 2019 - 2022 | Oculus Quest VR OS At Meta's Reality Labs group, I led the teams that built VROS and the web platform spanning AR/VR products. My teams advanced VR and the open web to build a new kind of computer – one simultaneously more immersive and enabling a feeling of presence. 2018 - 2019 | Instagram Shopping I led design for Instagram’s Merchant Platform helping onboard thousands of digital native brands to Instagram, matching them with millions of creators to establish brand partnerships, and providing them world-class insights to grow their distribution, sales and conversion. 2016 - 2018 | Facebook Payments Platform Stood up Facebook's horizontal payments platform, and built modular Checkout, Peer-to-Peer Payments, and Merchant Payouts products that are now used across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. I also led the team's global growth, enabling transactions in over 35 payment methods, simplifying support, refunds and reconciliation and building many new vertical integrations across the company including Instagram Shopping, Facebook Marketplace, Donations on IG/FB, etc. ### Product Design Lead @ Telenav Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Design Lead for Telenav's mapping and navigation products for Mobile, Watch and Car products. ### Experience Designer @ Yahoo Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Experience Lead on Yahoo's core search products, redefining consumer experiences around Movie Ticketing, Financial Planning, Music, Restaurants and Local Businesses ### Product Design Prototyper @ Amazon Lab126 Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Motion design and prototyping for Amazon's Operating System for TV and Media products (incl Fire TV) ### Various Roles @ Various Companies Jan 2007 – Jan 2012 Designer and development studio supporting popular startups and small businesses. ## Education ### Master of Science (MS) in Human Computer Interaction Georgia Institute of Technology ### Master of Science (MS) in Informatics Delhi University ### Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Computer Science Delhi University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/xabhishek - Portfolio: http://abhishek.im/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/abhishekn JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/abhishekn/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13