# Chris Konings > Staff Product Designer at Meta Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/chriskonings Designing how 3.5B+ users share across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads. Previously designed Meta HorizonOS Core Gaming and Developer Dashboard. Before that I was founding designer at two startups where I built design systems and UI standards from scratch. ## Work Experience ### Staff Product Designer - Sharing @ Meta Jan 2026 – Present | New York, New York, United States Designing how 3.5B+ users share across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads. ### Staff Product Designer - Core Gaming @ Meta Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | New York, New York, United States Building the next generation of console experiences on Meta Reality Labs devices. ### Staff Product Designer - HorizonOS @ Meta Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States Building the HorizonOS developer/creator platform to support our content ecosystem; from Applications to Worlds, and beyond. ### Senior Product Designer - Reality Labs @ Meta Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Burlingame, California, United States Responsible for web/developer platform surfaces and supporting immersive in-headset experiences for partners, studios, and indie developers. ### Senior Product Designer - Design Systems @ Meta Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States Building our internal design system; empowering Meta designers/engineers to build and maintain 3000+ tools across infra and enterprise. ### Product Designer - Infra Experiences @ Meta Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, California, United States I lead design and set vision for Diagnostics tooling across Meta; helping employees track and improve metrics which drive mobile/web experiences, including: performance, speed, and reliability. ### Product Designer @ Cobalt.io Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States * Cobalt (Pentesting As A Service) is redefining the modern pentest for companies who want serious hacker-like testing built into their development cycle. * As Product Designer for customer experience I listened to the needs of customers and collaborated with other designers, engineers and product managers to directly improve our customers pentesting and security maintenance experience. * I researched, interviewed and analyzed data to validate problems, refine ideas, and iterate on designs. * Established maintained Cobalt Design System. Worked with engineers to build a component library and apply consistency across the platform. ### Product designer + engineer @ Calipsa Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | London, England, United Kingdom * Lead design as Calipsa's first Product Designer, hired to set a foundation for design, introduce processes to highlight user needs, and define product strategy. * I conducted research and collaborated closely with the CEO and CTO to translate user needs in to business opportunities (the product eliminates 70% of false security alarms by using machine-learning and provides analytics). * Designed and implemented an internal design system (including typography, layout, and components) to establish visual and functional alignment throughout the product. The system set the standard for UI for the future.  * Aggregated data to produce visualisations and simplify complex AI model output. * Contributed to production code by building UI Components using HTML, SCSS, VueJS, D3.js and Git for version control. ### Product Designer @ IBM Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Hursley, England, United Kingdom Collaborated with the IBM App Connect design team to identify user needs and design effective solutions. Conducted user research and testing to iterate on designs, facilitating workshops to address pain points. ### Front End Engineer @ IBM Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Hursley, England, United Kingdom Hired as a Frontend Developer within the IBM API Test engineering team to collaborate closely with design and ensure the user experience aligned with the final solution. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Digital Media Development University of Winchester ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chris-konings-664ba235 - Portfolio: http://chriskonings.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/chriskonings JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/chriskonings/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29