# Leon Bayliss

> Product Design Lead at Meta

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/leonbayliss

Technical Designer & Leader with 15+ years shipping hardware and software at Google and Meta. I've co-authored PRDs that drove hardware improvements, built production features end-to-end, and led design and engineering teams from scratch — often on the same product.

## Work Experience
### Product Design Lead & Prototyper, Wearables @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Present | Burlingame, CA
Part of the Discovery team, defining the product strategy & design for next-gen devices in Meta's wearables portfolio, including a heavy focus on AI.

### Investor @ Chimnie
Jan 2021 – Present
The definitive source of UK property data intelligence for leading insurers, lenders and property experts.

### Product Design Lead, Google Pixel Watch @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States
Shipped hardware & software innovations for Google Pixel Watch by building & leading a multidisciplinary R&D team of Product Designers & Prototypers/Engineers, focused on early stage validation of promising new hardware & software technologies.

### Staff Product Designer/Engineer, Google Stadia @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, CA
Led design for Google Stadia's most complex user journey (playing a game) while also prototyping & shipping production code for major parts of the product and across multiple form factors.

Built up the Product/UX Engineering team from scratch, growing it into a team that took on (and solved) complex design challenges, prototyped innovative new features, and shipped high priority features.

### Creative/Engineer, The ZOO (Creative Marketing & Technology group) @ Google
Jan 2011 – Jan 2018 | London, United Kingdom
Launched creative experiences for Google's most important clients spanning multiple industries (e.g. automotive, entertainment, and fashion) across EMEA & North America

Combined Google's technologies with creative ideas & some of the most powerful brands in the world to deliver unique experiences, partnering with some of the world's most talented creative/production agencies to refine & build them.

### Senior Product Designer/Engineer @ Rock Kitchen Harris
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011
Led & shipped the frontend and backend UI for Police.UK - the UK Government's biggest website, funneling all 43 English & Welsh police forces into a single and accessible crime mapping website for the general public.


## Education
### 1:1 - BSc in Multimedia Computing
De Montfort University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-05