# Adam Schwabe

> Design leadership at Ramp

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/adamschwabe

## Work Experience
### Principal Product Designer @ Ramp
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States
Leading the growth design team

### Senior Staff Experience Designer @ Airbnb
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
Designing experiences that go beyond Airbnb's core business.

### Senior Staff Product Designer @ Faire
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States
Worked as the company's most senior designer. Developed a role that partnered with design leadership and worked horizontally across most product divisions on strategy, vision, and launching projects tactically in partnership with product teams. Coached and mentored other designers. Worked with design leadership to streamline crit and review processes.

### Staff Product Designer @ Faire
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Principal Product Designer @ Tonal
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Staff Product Designer @ Tonal
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California
– Strategy for improving motivation and workout frequency among members
– Delivered design projects across Tonal’s strength-training home trainer and Mobile app
– Developed product principles that help guide the how and why of all projects

### Staff Product Designer @ Uber
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Lead design on the Uber Freight team. Working in expansion verticals, across all teams to elevate design, and working with senior leadership to develop the vision and principles that guide our work.

### Senior Product Designer II @ Uber
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Designer for the Uber Freight carrier/driver app, working with a cross-functional team of engineers, project managers, researchers, and data scientists to build the foundational features of the app: search, onboarding, map view, and facility ratings.

### Senior Product Designer @ Uber
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led design of the Entertainment/Engagement program, launching new music and entertainment platforms for both riders and drivers. Led design on special projects related to the platform's future vision and new rider/driver use cases.

### User Experience Designer @ Apple
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Cupertino
– Led interaction design of Apple Store for 
iPhone 3.0 (Launched September 2014)
– Led user experience design of Apple Online Store (Launched September 2014)
– Worked in a group of teams to help imagine the future of retail at Apple

### Principal Interaction Designer @ IDEO
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area
– Led design teams at the world renowned innovation and design firm
– Developed wireframes, visual designs, and prototypes
– Prepared and presenting designs to clients

### Founder @ Rocket Radar
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013
Created an app to determine when the next streetcar or bus will arrive where you're standing.

### Associate Partner @ Teehan+Lax
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | Toronto, Canada Area
– Led design teams from project inception to build and delivery.
– Collaborated with designers, developers and a wide variety of UX associates. 
– Interfaced with clients to gain insight, learn business objectives and ultimately present designs.
– Writing and thought leadership on the company blog.

### User Experience Specialist @ IBM
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009
– Guiding IBM client projects in terms of usability and human interface design. 
– Developing and restructuring client content. 
– Designing user interface design specifications for software releases.

### Information Developer @ IBM
Jan 2005 – Jan 2007
– Developing and providing customer documentation, demos, tutorials, samples, language-sensitive help, and help information center content for users.
– Updating and maintaining the WDSC, WDS and iSeries product sites (ibm.com). 
– Developing Flash/XML-based marketing CD for IBM customers and IBM Business Partner customers.

### Writer and Photographer @ BlogTO
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008
Writing and photography for blogTO.com, Toronto's leading hyper-local blog covering arts, entertainment, music, and all things Toronto.

### Analyst @ University Health Network
Jan 2004 – Jan 2004
– Designed and maintained a support database (Access, SQL). 
– Developed scripts for user emulation and automated testing tools. 
– Implemented and documented system-wide Electronic Patient Record (EPR) fixes and upgrades.

### Information Techology Technician @ New Horizons System Solutions
Jan 2003 – Jan 2003
– Co-ordinated system upgrade efforts and system inventory. 
– Prepared equipment for Pickering/Darlington Nuclear Plant distribution. 
– Responded to Help Desk tickets and provided technical support.

### Web Designer @ Durham District School Board
Jan 2002 – Jan 2002
– Designed a multi-media repository for the Virtual Campus. 
– Implemented a user friendly interface to be used by teachers.


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Computing in Distributed Computing
University of Guelph

### Diploma in Wireless Telecommunications
Humber College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adamschwabe
- Website: https://adamschwabe.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-07