# Akhil Patel > Senior Designer @Meta Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/akhilpatel Hi, I’m Akhil. Designing in pixels & thinking in systems. My strength lies in storytelling, architecting systems, and crafting gripping visuals+interactions. I have an entrepreneurial mindset and I thrive in complexity, ambiguity, constraints, and ambitious teams. I've always had a knack for improving product experiences, even before I entered the design domain. And naturally, designing digital experiences, later on, felt like home to me. Over the years, I've developed an affinity for tackling complex interaction and behavioral problems. I can think in various levels of abstraction, ranging from micro-level visual design & interactions to macro-level system challenges. I've created 0→1 experiences as well as owned design for products used by 100s of millions of people. My goal is to positively touch a billion lives and I believe there isn't a better time to do that. Contact: hi.akhilpatel@gmail.com ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer - Ads & Monetization @ Meta Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Designing advertiser UX for retailers and RMNs (retail media networks). ### Senior Product Designer - GenAI Video @ Meta Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 Led E2E design for the progressive-scripting AI VideoGen advertiser experience. ### Founding Designer - Mobile / Voice / AI @ Hero Assistant Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Founding designer (first US hire) for a one of a kind, all-in-one daily assistant powered by voice and AI auto-complete. 500,000+ users with 4.9⭐️ rating on the app store. Consistently ranked within the top #200 productivity apps. Designed the e2e UX, brand identity, design system, and everything in between. Supported the team go from whiteboard to launch to product-market-fit. ### Senior Product Designer - Growth @ Ramp Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Worked briefly on Growth acquisition efforts and helped design the Ramp Advisor Console. ### Senior Product Designer - Platform @ BoomPop Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Product Designer II - Search / Ads @ Microsoft Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 ### Product Designer I - Search / E-commerce / Ads @ Microsoft Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Hyderabad Area, India • I work on the retail segment of Microsoft Bing, crafting e-commerce focused scalable experiences across surfaces. • I have designed & shipped multiple high-volume experiences (80M+ monthly active users) which contribute to the $100M+ revenue annually. • Some key shipped experiences include Shop Hub, Offers on Bing, Black Friday/weekly ads, product ads revamp, brand storefronts, etc. • I am the user advocate in the larger product team and work extensively on strategy, visual design, research, motion design & prototyping. ### Founder @ Guidr Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Hyderabad, Telangana, India • Created a marketplace platform for people to get quality consultation and help in different domains from industry experts. Launched the mobile app in July ‘19. • Did the marketing, content creation, operations, legal, customer support, and experience design. Hired an intern for development work. • Currently repivoting this idea based on pilot feedback to bring something more exciting in the market. ### Co-Founder @ Pakit Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Guwahati Area, India • Pakit is a global peer-to-peer platform for connecting senders, travelers, and buyers. • Travelers can earn money by utilizing their unused baggage space while traveling across countries, state or cities whereas senders can ship items at cheaper rates from one place to another with their help. • People across the globe wish for things which are expensive or not available in their vicinity and travelers can help them by delivering it. • Working towards creating an unmatched and reliable user experience for the peer-to-peer sharing community through trustworthy design. ### Product Design Intern - Skype @ Microsoft Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Hyderabad, Telangana, India • Conceptualized and designed a chatbot from scratch for Skype (all platforms). • Conceptualized a user engagement model for high user retention and accordingly designed scenarios, bot personality, conversation flow and new features to accomplish the business goals of the project. • Managed a team of 4 developers and drove the project to successful implementation (complete ship-ready product) within the deadlines. ## Education ### Master's degree in Interaction Design California College of the Arts ### Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akhil-patel --- Source: https://flows.cv/akhilpatel JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/akhilpatel/resume.json Last updated: 2026-02-23