# Krisha Nalavadi > Product Designer at Meta Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/krishanalavadi Hi 👋 I'm a Product Designer with 7 years of experience from California. I love the creativity and problem solving that comes from this career. I've built intuitive, high-impact digital experiences for small companies and big tech. Feel free to check out some of my work: Portfolio: https://krishanalavadi.com/ ## Work Experience ### Product Designer @ Meta Jan 2024 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States Supporting media experiences on wearable devices: Jan 2025-current Supporting the SMB Ads team: June - Dec 2024 I was the main designer for launching ad creation on a new native app for small businesses on Whatsapp iOS. This new feature allowed advertisers to create new ads, including draft ads and video ads. The app can be downloaded on the apple store as “WA Business” I worked on on mid-flight guidances, entry points for Instagram linking on Pages, navigation improvements, improving the music experience on Reels for advertisers, and the design system. ### Senior Product Designer @ Handshake Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Worked on employer campaigns and messaging. The goal was to help recruiters get more qualified applicants for their jobs, while also driving student engagement through Gen AI and design improvements. Also supported the monetization and the subscription areas of the product to drive revenue through upsells, email, and design experiments. ### Product Designer @ Nextdoor Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California Designer supporting the growth and retention teams. Redesigned the login, registration/onboarding experiences. The first designer working on the new invitations feature, SEO, and contact sync. I'm the first designer for the sharekit API I and worked individually with partners like Microsoft, Meetup, Weather.com, GoFundme, Patch and Samsung to welcome more neighbors to Nextdoor. Key Metrics: Registration/onboarding saw 8.5% SWI impact due to decreased dropoff in the flow, increased functionality, and simplicity from redesign My work on invitations help drive 9% lift in unique digital inviters, 43% lift in registrations from digital invites, and 42% lift in VNs from digital invites. position eliminated through layoff ### Product Designer @ WeWork Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Part of the Core Platform Team working on responsive web and iOS design. The focus was on Grant: a member-facing product which allows enterprise customers to efficiently self-manage teams and access within WeWork spaces. Additional projects included mobile keycard access, set-up (creation) flows, and marketing web pages. - Worked in Sketch, Invision and Framer to build functional prototypes for testing and engineering - Designs included products for responsive web and native iOS apps - Presented at Design Reviews to get feedback on designs from engineering, product and design directors, leads and VP’s - Participated in Product and Engineering reviews to understand cross-functional goals and work collaboratively position eliminated through layoff ### UX Designer @ Prolific Interactive Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 Product design work for a creative agency focused on mobile first design. Products include building a complete service flow for AAA’s Home Manager App. (acquired by wework) ### UX Designer @ Ampush Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Brand Designer @ Webflow Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Responsibilities included conceptualizing and designing hero images for blog posts, along with wireframing, designing, and building team pages in Webflow. ### UX Designer/ Developer @ Linkd Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 Front end software development for a web-based MEAN application. ### SEO Analytics Intern @ Trulia Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Marketing and analytics to improve brand awareness and traffic through SEO ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (BA) Emory University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/krishanalavadi - Portfolio: https://krishanalavadi.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/krishanalavadi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/krishanalavadi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13