# C. Skyler Rodriguez > Senior Product Designer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/cskylerrodriguez ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer @ Lyft Urban Solutions Jan 2026 – Present ### Senior Product Designer @ Scout Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area As the first full time designer at Scout, I strived for design to showcase the power of how visual and experiential quality can lead to user growth and retention. I championed our design system and led initiatives to work with engineers to ensure a one to one execution between our design library and code base. I worked on large zero to one features like bookkeeping, and LLCs as well as consistent small wins through improvements in content, account consolidation and login flows. I strive for cross org collaboration through pooling our sales and support teams to provide athlete feedback that could be turned into personas and user journeys. I took our qualitative findings and existing user data to drive design proposals that fed into both our short term roadmaps and our long-term product vision. ### Designer @ Meta Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Leading product design under the new Friending team with the Social Design org. Connecting friending experiences through projects within presence and active status settings, People You May Know and cross-app experiences. Prior to friending I worked on social connections where I was focused on top-of-home new user experiences. ### Senior Product Designer @ OfOne (YC W23) Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | South San Francisco, California, United States As the first designer for a Y-Combinator backed startup focused on transforming the restaurant experience with AI technology, I led the development and implementation of the drive-thru ordering kiosk’s design system, ensuring it met the needs of various client types. I closely collaborated with engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of design and technology, fostering robust engineering partnerships. Additionally, I crafted a unique voice animation style and managed design quality assurance, culminating in successful in-person trials with our client, Krispy Kreme. ### Product Designer, Creator Growth @ Pinterest Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States Lead Designer on the Creator Growth team. Played a key role in driving the Creator Growth roadmap by instilling alignment between design, engineering, product management, and corporate leadership through the implementation of comprehensive data analysis, experimentation, and visual enhancements. Focused on working with the design systems team to ensure cohesive and scalable solutions around our Creator Acquisition Email series, making a comprehensive email template now leveraged by various growth partners and teams. Partnered with various disciplines and 3rd-party data providers to conduct experiments aimed at converting potential Creators into active users. Strategically leveraged email and in-app frameworks. Achieved an impressive 50% growth (25k new Creators) in our cohort throughout 2021, with a consistent 5% year-over-year growth. Spearheaded a redesign of our overall Creator correspondence framework, collaborating closely with content designers, data analysts, and engineering teams to align with our company’s new mission in increasing original content. This included introducing data-focused emails and enhancing in-product experiences such as Monthly Creator stats and Creation trends. Resulted in a significant bump in retention, as creators who actively engaged with these new features were three times more likely to continue creating week over week. ### Product Designer, Creators and Video @ Pinterest Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Led the design process for the new business navigation and the Engagement Tab, while working within various Creators and Video teams. Collaborated with design systems teams to gain buy-in for the new business navigation, ensuring consistency and efficiency. Redesigned the Engagement tab while apart of the Creator Platform team, creating new patterns for commenting and engagement within our greater design system. Partnered with engineering teams to integrate design improvements seamlessly into the video viewing experience for both Pinners and Video Creators. Enhanced the content upload system workflow and optimized the experience of video ad formats through strong engineering partnerships. ### UX Designer @ AJ+ Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 A key contributor in the development of products across the entire Al Jazeera network, my responsibilities were expansive, covering product research, innovation, and comprehensive UX/UI production design. This collaborative role involved making critical decisions on products, resulting in the establishment of enduring product workflows. ### UX Designer for Amazon Instant Video @ Amazon Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 As a visual and UX designer, significant contributions were made to the development of video applications across Amazon's mobile, living room, and web platforms. A compelling visual design language was created to actively guide designers working on navigation and aesthetics for the next generation of video platforms. ### Product Development Intern @ Boeing Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Everrett WA As an Intern the focus was on the strategic development of an intricate process plan for pioneering airplane configuration changes. The design and meticulous categorization of all requests were orchestrated, resulting in the seamless execution of transformative alterations to the original blueprint of the aircraft. ## Education ### Bachelor of Design in Interaction Design University of Washington ### Running Start in Business Administration and Management, General Cascadia College ### inglemoor high school ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/skyrod - Portfolio: https://skyler.design --- Source: https://flows.cv/cskylerrodriguez JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/cskylerrodriguez/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13