# Arvi Raquel-Santos > UX Manager, Google Search App and Design Systems // ex-Instacart, Meta (Facebook), Fitbit, Glassdoor Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/arvi Arvi is a San Francisco based designer and educator with over 15+ years of product and brand design experiences. Arvi is currently a UX Manager at Google. Previously, Arvi was a Sr. Product Design Manager at Instacart. Prior to Instacart, Arvi was a Director at Glassdoor leading the B2C team, a Product Design Lead and Manager for Fitbit and a Product Designer at Facebook. Arvi’s work has been recognized by a number of design shows and publications including: Graphis, AR100, Communication Arts, PRINT, HOW, the BoNE show (Best of New England), Graphic Design USA, The Big Book of Logos, 1,000 Greetings, Best of Brochure Design, Fingerprint 2 and most recently Just Design. Arvi has been invited to judge for various design shows and has spoken at various venues on the subject of the power of Design for Social Good. ## Work Experience ### Sr. Staff UX Manager, Google Search App & Design Systems @ Google Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Sr. UX Manager, Google Search App & Design Systems @ Google Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Mentor @ adplist.org Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Helping people become a better version of themselves. ### Sr. Product Design Manager, Tools @ Instacart Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Leading Merchandising & Marketing and Insights building tools that enable Retailers, CPGs, and Marketers to promote, merchandise, and manage their business on Instacart. ### Sr. Product Design Manager, Shopper & Fulfillment and Support & Protect @ Instacart Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States Currently leading the Shopper Design Org to power the fulfillment of every grocery transaction, creating meaningful work & earning for shoppers and delivering with quality for customers ### Sr. Product Design Manager, Growth @ Instacart Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Led design for Growth at Instacart across Acquisition, Activation (new user conversion), early Retention and Resurrection, and Incentives. I managed a team of Product Designers with cross-functional partners in Product, User Research, Data Science, and Content Design. ### Director, B2C @ Glassdoor Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Sr. Product Design Manager @ Glassdoor Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Product Design Lead @ SoFi Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Product Design Lead on SoFi Money — https://www.sofi.com/money/ ### Product Design Lead, Manager @ Fitbit Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Product Designer @ Facebook Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 Building products that are used by over a billion people around the world. While at Facebook, Arvi designed and built product experiences for Facebook’s ad and commerce group. Products built while at Facebook included: Page Insights, Audience Insights, Payments & Commerce, and Legacy. ### Senior Visual Designer @ Hot Studio Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco, CA Creative direction and design development of user experience and interface design helping to envision, design, and build digital products and experiences for a wide range of nationally recognized clients in the technology, education, and lifestyle industry. Hot Studio was acquired in 2013 by Facebook. ### Design Director @ Weymouth Design Jan 2003 – Jan 2012 Creative direction, strategy, design development, project and client management of award-winning work for clients in the technology, education, financial, and consumer industry. Arvi led a team of designers and developers to create strategically and beautifully designed projects ranging from annual reports, corporate identity, integrated branding systems, marketing communications, websites and video. For nearly a decade, Arvi co-chaired Sappi’s Ideas that Matter, the industry’s only grant program aimed at helping designers to contribute their talent to charitable causes. This included playing a strategic role in developing the program to enable Sappi to become a thought leader; garnering participation for the grant program within the design community; leading the design team and developing the Ideas that Matter brand for North American for nearly a decade. To date, Sappi has contributed over $15 million dollars worldwide to causes that enhance our lives and communities. Other clients include: GE Healthcare, AIGA, The Gillette Corporation, Dodge & Cox, Georgetown Cupcake, Life Technologies, and EMC. ### Social Impact Co-Chair @ AIGA San Francisco Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 As AIGA SF's social impact chair, Arvi promoted and supported design for social good through networking and collaboration with like-minded individuals and organizations. We foster close working relationships between designers and the non-profit community. We provide a forum for socially responsible design through cause/affect, an international biennial design competition that celebrates the work of designers and organizations who set out to positively impact our society. • Created awareness and education around how designers and the non-profit community can mutually benefit from closer working relationships. • Provided guidance, leadership and resources to the design community and encouraged corporations and individuals to follow best practices with regard to socially responsible design. • Led AIGA SF efforts on social impact advocacy and advocated the responsibility of design for social good to AIGA National. ### Adjunct Professor @ Academy of Art University Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 Classroom, one-on-one instruction, lectures and group critique through a type systems class. Students not only learned how to design but also learned to self initiate, explore and conceptualize intelligent and thoughtful design solutions. ### Senior Designer @ Selbert Perkins Design Jan 1999 – Jan 2003 ### Adjunct Professor @ Suffolk University Jan 2000 – Jan 2002 ### Senior Designer @ Tomlinson Designs, Inc. Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 ### Designer @ Lehman Millet Incorporated Jan 1997 – Jan 1998 ### Designer @ O Design Jan 1997 – Jan 1998 ### Designer @ MicroInteractive Jan 1996 – Jan 1996 ## Education ### BFA in Illustration/Communications Design/Business Management Syracuse University ### Xavier High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arvir - Portfolio: http://www.nexusexperiment.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/arvi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/arvi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13