# Maleesa C.

> Product Person

Location: Oakland, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/maleesa

Product Person: works at the intersection of product management and product design to build sticky experiences with genuinely happy users and measurable business impact

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Designer @ Pave
Jan 2024 – Present

### Product Person @ Timekeeping Startup
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Rebuilt product strategy and design by employing evidence-based product development framework

### Senior Product Designer @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2023
• Lead designer for Shopping on Search: Single-Entity Queries
• Managed design framework with 10 UX partners (UXR, VisD, UXW, UXE, IxD)
• Design Sprint Master
• Developed & taught distributed design sprint framework
• 2 Product Manager rotations

### Product Designer @ Product Design Pro
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021
Launched a 6-week online Product Design course
• Prototyped the first class, experimenting with a novel structure and curriculum delivery 
• Designed landing page and marketed to get 8 students enrolled in $699 beta course 
• Provided weekly feedback and critique for student projects 
• Iterated and improved the curriculum and content based on student feedback

### Product Designer (also Chief of Staff) @ Yes Inc ✌️
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto, CA
*Acquired by Twitter*

Designed an app from concept to launch 
• Led a design process that included 35 problem interviews, 3 clickable prototypes and 21 solution interviews before writing a single line of code.  
• Found product/market fit and then designed the user experience and high-fidelity mock-ups including the out-of-box experience, detail views, edge-case scenarios, and settings.
• Pushed code to perfect the visual design and added a few delightful details while teaching myself Objective-C.  
Results? Our users love it. We have an 8.33% day 14 unbounded daily retention rate and 5.99% click-through rate on our best performing ad.  

User experience, visual design and research for our flagship iOS app 
• Designed the first prototype of the initial concept, interpreting the CEO’s initial idea into something the CTO could start coding.
• As the team grew and a full-time senior visual designer was hired, I started doing more technical and process-driven work. Wrote simple Javascript prototypes for interaction ideas, led team meetings to brainstorm and prioritize new features based on user feedback, and designed and coded the landing page for launch.
• Once the app was designed, the most important thing to do was get users, so I created our Campus Ambassador program from scratch. In 4 months, I recruited, interviewed, and managed more than 30 Campus Ambassadors across 12 campuses for a program I designed and maintained. I also ran on-campus growth programs at Cal Poly and UC Berkeley like flash deals and orientation deals for thousands of students.

### Web Developer @ Nebo Agency
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto, CA
Built websites using PHP, Ruby, HTML5, CSS, JS, SASS
• Built responsive interface based on spec from designer
• Implemented Javascript and JQuery for form validation and website interactions
• Coded wireframes and PSD files to pixel-perfect compliant HTML & CSS
• Built out custom CMS features for sorting, location, and categories

### Designer @ Studio O+A
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco, CA
Designed workspaces for tech companies in San Francisco. Clients included Yelp, OpenTable, and Zazzle.


## Education
### B.Architecture in Architecture
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-13