# Benji Kuroda

> Design Lead working at Instagram @ Meta. Previously Gen AI & OpenSea.

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

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer @ Instagram
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Generative AI, Staff Product Designer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States

### Head of Design @ OpenSea
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States
Team leader and IC lead. Highlights:

- Design team hiring, allocation, and health
- Developed the company's Creator vision and roadmap, and executed key projects as an IC
- Led design system update efforts, including visuals, components, responsive type, and color systems
- Launched OpenSea's first foray into primary drops, a new business line for the company at the time

### Product Design Lead @ OpenSea
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States

### Staff Product Design Lead @ Instagram
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
- Led Shop Tab consumer experience on Instagram
- Led Shops, a surface for businesses to create digital storefronts across Meta's family of apps
- Shipped shopping on LIVE videos
- Shipped the ability for businesses to drop their products on Instagram
- Shipped the first version of IGTVs creator tools

### Product Designer @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Venice Beach, CA

### Product Designer @ Instagram
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Menlo Park, CA
Highlights:

- Shipped the first version of Instagram Save and Collections
- Led the company's branded content design strategy
- Designed and optimized the first versions of Instagram's feed and story ad formats

### Interaction Design Intern @ frog
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Seattle, Washington
Automotive and mobile digital experiences

### User Experience Intern @ Google
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Zurich, Switzerland
Google Calendar

### Program Manager @ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford ( d.school )
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Palo Alto, CA
Program manager for a Stanford D.School education program called SparkTruck.

### Design Intern @ Motorola Mobility
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Sunnyvale, CA
3D printing and prototyping at Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP)


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Industrial and Product Design
ArtCenter College of Design


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/benji-kuroda-93722360
- Portfolio: https://www.renzokuroda.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-29