# Katya K.

> Senior Product Design Manager at Doordash

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/katyak

Interdisciplinary design leader passionate about building healthy, high-performing teams and creating high-quality products that solve real-world challenges.

I have a keen eye for detail & craft and adept organizational and program management skills. I work well under deadlines in a changing environment, self-motivated and driven to see goals obtained.

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Design Manager, New Verticals Fullfillment @ DoorDash
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Supporting the New Verticals Fulfillment design team in developing customer-centric, AI-driven logistics systems and shopper experiences. Focused on enabling the company’s expansion into key verticals—grocery, convenience, retail, and alcohol—to strengthen local commerce and ensure every order is delivered quickly, accurately, and affordably.

### Senior Product Design Manager @ Meta
Jan 2020 – Jan 2025 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Led the design teams for the Metaverse Avatars & Identity org that’s responsible for ensuring a seamless and unified avatar experience across platforms. Our work spans all consumer-facing avatar experiences across Meta's current and future platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Quest and Horizon Worlds, and third-party applications that have integrated our Avatars SDK. My role involves overseeing teams focused on avatar creation, personalization, and new use cases such as expression and social connections.

Responsibilities: 
- Built and scaled the team from ground up, established ways of working & collaboration model
- Established the design vision that defines how we can win with our product strategy 
- Upheld the quality and craft, defined visual design systems
- Took a lead on a set of high-stakes strategic projects

### Product Design Manager @ Reality Labs @ Oculus VR
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Burlingame, California, United States
Led the design teams on the Horizon community building & integrity and Quest Social Platform that’s responsible for the platform-level social layer and functionality across all Quest devices.

### Product Designer @ Oculus VR
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
Led the design for a range of products including 360 Media and Spatial Workstation (software suit for spatial audio), Facebook Spaces, Portal & Hardware Innovations lab, Facebook Horizon.

### Lead Product Designer @ Emergent VR
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Emergent is a platform that enables an accessible consumer capture of live action immersive videos using mobile that you can view & share in virtual reality. I led the design of our mobile and Gear VR social platforms including product strategy, branding and user research.

### Lead Product Designer @ wetravel.to
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, CA
WeTravel is the online tool for anyone organizing a group trip. I led the cross-functional team in user research and re-design of WeTravel website and core product.

### Architect @ Perkins+Will
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
Perkins+Will is an interdisciplinary, research-based architecture and design firm. I worked on a high-profile international project in Middle East and followed the project from concept design to construction documents.

### Architectural Designer @ Nautilus Group, Inc
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Berkeley, CA
Nautilus Group is a vertically-integrated Design, Engineering, Construction, Manufacturing, Technology and Real Estate Development firm. I assisted with modular urban-infill projects through all stages of entitlement, design and construction documentation.


## Education
### Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) in Architecture
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013

### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Architecture & Structural Engineering in Architecture
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011

### Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering
Vyatka State University, Kirov, Russian Federation
Jan 2004 – Jan 2007

### Product Design + Engineering
Tradecraft
Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katyakostyukova

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Last updated: 2026-04-07