# Ben Kucsan

> Product Designer at WhatsApp

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/benkucsan

Working on the Core Consumer team at WhatsApp in Menlo Park, focusing on the app’s core messaging experiences across platforms.

## Work Experience
### Product Designer @ WhatsApp
Jan 2021 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States
Working on the Core Consumer team at WhatsApp in Menlo Park, focusing on the app’s core messaging experiences across platforms.

### Product Designer • WhatsApp @ Meta
Jan 2021 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States
Working on the Core Consumer team at WhatsApp in Menlo Park, focusing on the app’s core messaging experiences across platforms.

### Product Designer • Portal @ Meta
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | London, England, United Kingdom
Led design on the zero to one effort of building Live for Portal touch and TV devices and spearheaded a product quality and accessibility initiative aiming to promote IC product ownership.

### Product Designer • Enterprise Engineering @ Meta
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | London, England, United Kingdom
Led design on Facebook’s proprietary video conferencing and way-finding products.

### Co-founder & Head of Design @ Thread
Jan 2012 – Jan 2017 | London, England, United Kingdom
Co-founded and served as the Head of Design at the company, building a truly personal commerce experience using a mixture of human expertise and data science. Helped raise over $40M from Y Combinator, Balderton Capital and H&M among others. Led the design team, oversaw brand and product development, and served on the board of directors.

### Product Designer @ Silverorange
Jan 2006 – Jan 2012 | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Led design on the initial product for Xamarin (acquired by Microsoft in 2016), on the iOS application for Summify (acquired by Twitter in 2012), on video integration in a tweet for Twitter, on early product explorations for Duolingo, and on two major Firefox and Thunderbird launches for Mozilla.


## Education
### Startup Fund and Program
Y Combinator

### Master of Arts (MA) in Design
University for the Creative Arts

### Diploma in Information Management and Information Technology
Bundeshandelsakademie und Bundeshandelsschule Wiener Neustadt


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/benkucsan
- Website: https://benkucsan.com
- Website: https://whatsapp.com
- Website: https://meta.com

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Last updated: 2026-02-23