# Marisa Ansari > AI Lead @ Atlassian Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/marisaansari As a seasoned technical software designer and leader in emerging technology, I am motivated by learning that pushes innovation forward. I have been leading new initiatives, 0 to 1 products, and deep technical strategy at enterprise tech companies for the last eight years with a strong focus on product market fit, competitive landscapes, and my personal secret sauce-- leveraging design thinking for business strategy. More notably, I am known to have an efficient design processes with a focus on research, usability data, and collaborative workshopping. ## Work Experience ### Lead Product Designer, AI (Platform) @ Atlassian Jan 2025 – Present | New York, NY ### Lead Product Designer, Confluence AI @ Atlassian Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States ### Principal Product Designer, New Ventures, AI @ Toast Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States • Founding Designer & Lead on three 0 to 1 products • New Ventures Product Founder - Voice & Conversational AI ### Senior UX Designer, Multicloud @ LiveRamp Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States Led a 0 to 1 Federated Data Platform Product focusing on a secure multi-cloud solution ### UI/UX Designer, Core @ Salesforce Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York • Led discovery and prototyping for augmented reality on Commerce Cloud • Led a multifaceted UX research program for Q-Branch at Salesforce, including comprehensive customer experience audits • Conduct customer research, ultimately developing tools and processes that improve quality, value, and up-selling of products. • Advocate for the customer by articulating findings and concepts through thoughtful and precise presentations to stakeholders, C-suites, and executives demonstrating improvements for user experience • Run complex customer-centric workshops to identify business challenges and uncover actionable insights • Provide strategic POV consults to account teams, with a focus on tying Salesforce products and integration capabilities to enhance end-user experience and create upselling opportunities for clients • A Community Cloud expert, creating new ways for our customer's customer to connect, collaborate, and self-service all in one space • Creating consonance between developers, designers, researchers, strategists, engineers, and executives, as cross-functional partners, to drive our company forward and create user centered decisions • Manage project queue for entire team, leading teammates on projects, managing workloads • Enterprise Business Unit expert • Active seat on the Equality Council with the focus on creating non-bias, fair and equal opportunities for every human across the org • Leader on empowering others at Salesforce to conduct their own research, as well as giving them the tools to design, and make customer-centric decisions as a thoughtful advocate for our customers • Independently execute high quality research and prototypes from story conception to final deliverable, in a fast-paced environment ### Associate UI/UX Designer, Core @ Salesforce Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York • Led research, product design launches, and define measurements of success in collaboration with a cross-functional team of executives, architects, designers, strategists and engineers • Drove research and product roadmaps on every project to deliver and enable strategic insights • Conceptualized high level ideas into a beautiful design flow and experience • Brought an iconic story telling and UX workshop to the team creating an end-to-end contribution in high-level strategic decisions • Known for taking all my work above and beyond to identify meaningful users needs and advise with the best product ### Associate UX Designer, Marketing Cloud @ Salesforce Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York Initiatives • Chairman of a Customer Facing Opportunity team, setting the way for in the room initiatives • Assisting with the planning, presenting, organizing, and content of a Co-Lab team. This gave way to networking and collaboration across the company by sharing experiences that ultimately provide customer success • Took my learnings beyond the office and am involved with multiple creative groups • Member of Salesforce internal FitForce NYC • Member of Salesforce internal Women's Networking Group • Member of Salesforce internal Yoga Pilot Program; Yogarama Workshops • Based off my training, I was able to bring an iconic story telling workshop to our team. By doing this it set the tone for the rest of the year that our team wanted to lead more in the room workshops • Was asked to observe all different kind of workshops across Salesforce and find bridges where there seemed to be gaps in the workshopping system • Lead and assisted in multiple UX/UI based workshops for different industry clients Day-to-day • I was in charge of what was shown in the room. Alongside the SE's demo's, I created strategic story telling assets from UI screens, demo maps, presentations, brochure's, posters, books, ebooks, and any custom asset I felt was needed to really convey our solution to the client. • Manage Junior SE's on rotation. • Conduct Quarterly Business Reviews on progression, trajectory, and analytics. Achievements • Brought in over 4M in ACV just in Q4 • Two internal Innovation Awards • One internal Chief Success Office Award • Two of my projects were chosen to be "Best of the Best" to be shared company wide • Ranger Status on our internal platform • Making professional, personal, and health related goals at the beginning of each year and doing a quarterly review with my manager to make sure I am on track for completion ### Solutions Engineer Designer @ Salesforce Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Indianapolis, Indiana First participant in a diverse skill set pilot program; a 6-month immersive training consisting of designers, solution engineers, and business analysts with all different backgrounds. As a creative design team member, I enabled how to successfully communicate visually, create prototypes, and conduct customer journey story telling and mapping workshops. The greatest take-away from this experience was the collaboration across industries, jobs, and backgrounds. We became better together by teaching each other, daily, new approaches to problem solving, critical thinking, and finding each other's strengths. ### Global New Business Designer @ gyro Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Cincinnati, Ohio & New York, New York Worked alongside the creative team and new business team creating a perfect balance of agency experience. New Business Team • In one year's time, I have assisted with bringing in over 15 million dollars worth of work to gyro:Cincinnati and gyro:New York. • Taken my same design discipline, expertise, and expectations of excellence to gyro:New York opportunities. • Go-to resource to create the most insanely awesome new business work for gyro:Cincinnati and gyro:New York • Directed gyro:New York's pitch team with my knowledge of new business through multiple pitches and proposals in a weeks time leading our team to victory and reinforcing timelines in order to get the work to the translators. • Strategically design, and coordinate, all of our local and international pitches/proposals to gain new business. • Never shying away from hands-on work, I jam a 60+ hour work week in Monday-Friday on a regular business (while smiling!) Creative Team • Produced 2018 award-nominated digital creative for BtoB marketing agency. • Self-motivating on all projects, excelling when under pressure; I live for the time crunch and impossible deadlines. • Using my expertise in Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, SketchUp, Rhino, and Strata I have been able to collaborate, concept, and produce a variety of projects such as identity, print ads, brochures, interactive marketing, direct mail, emails, presentations, and print books Leadership • Provide leadership on company-wide initiatives. • By proving what I strive to live for each and everyday of my life, I was selected by corporate to be the Ambassador of Diversity & Inclusion out of hundreds of other candidates. • Assisting gyro's COO in organizing a network wide women's leadership program. ### Design Co-op @ InnoMark Communications Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 Created concepts and worked on many different brands including, but not limited to, Kroger, PEPSI, Dick's Sporting Goods, Express, Disney, and Innomark Communications. Learned how to use die cuts digitally and on machines while learning different print techniques. Worked in teams to collaborate on each brand and get feedback from each other. ### Visual Communication Design Co-Op @ University of Cincinnati Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cincinnati, Ohio Carry out brand standard designs created by LPK Advertisement. Design posters, tablecloths, brochures, YouTube interface, along with several other forms of advertisement. Process and execute print and digital collateral to continue the new brand standards. Able to bring my creative, authentic, and unique designs and concepts to the ProPEL Division. ### Peer Leader @ University of Cincinnati Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Instructing the Exploring Art + Design course made up of college freshman. This exploratory course is for the crowd that could not get into the creative program they wanted to, or want to gain more experience in the field. ### Marketing Graphic Design Co-op @ Assurex Health Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Design and create case studies, various educational pieces, and signage. Hired through their marketing department I have had the privilege of being a part of many different advertisements and published work. One of the bigger accomplishments I have made recently was designing graphs and charts for a combinatorial pharmacogenomics paper that was published through Yale University. ### Server / Trainer / 3-Way Connoisseur @ Skyline Chili Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 Promoted to server in advance because of fast learning capabilities, and working well with other employees. Assisting all managers with counting the money, helping them with their customers, and helping in the back. Prioritized and handled several demanding tasks at once when understaffed and scarce help was provided. ## Education ### Master's degree in Technology Management, AI/ML Columbia University ### Bachelor's degree in College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, Graphic Design University of Cincinnati ### Certification in Human Computer Interaction Massachusetts Institute of Technology ### Psychology The University of Texas at Austin ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/marisamahinansari - Portfolio: https://marisamahinansari.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/marisaansari JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/marisaansari/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30