# Chelsea Otakan

> Staff Product Designer

Profile: https://flows.cv/chelsea

I've designed for and led teams at Stripe, Lattice, Sourcegraph and more. I love working at the intersection of design and engineering to build products and systems that bring teams joy and uplift humans. I have experience designing consumer and developer-focused products, building and architecting design systems, interviewing and hiring small design teams, and directing small cross-functional product teams. I want to work on building beautiful, scalable, and usable design systems for interesting and complex products.

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer @ Brex
Jan 2025 – Invalid Date | Seattle, Washington, United States

### Health and well-being @ Care.com
Jan 2022 – Invalid Date | Seattle, Washington, United States
Taking a breather. Will start considering what's next in 2025!

### Staff Product Designer @ Lattice
Jan 2022 – Invalid Date | Seattle, Washington, United States
Design systems, Talent Reviews, and Calibrations products

### Product Designer @ Stripe
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Still working on design systems!

### Product Design Manager @ Stripe
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Still supporting the design systems team, but from Seattle.

### Design Program Mentor @ TinkerU
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, Washington, United States

### Senior Designer / UI Developer @ Sourcegraph
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led design and front-end development efforts for user-facing features aimed at solving common developer productivity problems. I ran design sprints, designed major features, developed features using CSS, TypeScript, and React, and helped build the product team.

### Design Director @ Makeshift
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, CA
Youth wanted to increase access to credit and financial power for working Americans. I worked on building a design team, design systems/brand, and a product that I can be proud of.

### Product Designer @ Change.org
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, CA
Worked on the petition experience and user experience of team focused on decision-makers on the platform. As one-functioning as a product designer I worked on product strategy with my product manager, collaborated with engineers to scope and build features, ran user research to better understand our audiences, and interviewed users and gathers on Casted.me to better understand our audiences.

### UX Designer and Product Lead @ Teehen+lax
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Seattle, Washington, United States
I designed user interfaces, mapped out user flows, and directed a small team focused on the consumer experience.


## Education
### BA
University of Nevada, Reno
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011

### Course
Bloc
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016

### Fellowship
DesignerFund
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cotakan/
- Email: mailto:chelsea@placeholder.flows.cv

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Last updated: 2026-02-01