# Maryna Cher > Product Designer || Puzzle Solver || Ex-Meta Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/maryna An inquisitive UX / Product designer with a decade of experience in Design, Product, and QA. I care about building high quality products that bring real value to people. I view problems as puzzles and approach them from different angles in order to find the best solutions. Always driven to ask the right questions, I learn new subjects and domains quickly and passionately. I am drawn to psychology, sociology, and figuring out the ways that humans work, which helps me focus directly on user needs and be the most empathetic designer I can be. A collaborative and optimistic team player, I am constantly looking for opportunities to help my teammates unlock their potential and gain more fulfillment from the work that they do. I actively seek out ways to optimize collaboration processes in order to improve the overall success of the team and the company. ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer @ Gem Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States Designing the future of recruiting with Gem ATS ✨ ### Senior Product Designer @ Knoetic | CPOHQ Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States I joined Knoetic as the Founding Designer in 2021. - As the first designer, owned everything from design system to tooling to user research to website wireframes to hi-fi product designs - Led the end-to-end design for both of Knoetic’s products (consumer and enterprise): CPOHQ Forum and People Analytics platform - Forum used by 1K+ users: redesigned from scratch, improved UX based on user research; the number of daily active users grew 3X following the redesign - Created the first user management flow in the People Analytics platform, Knoetic’s keystone product used by HR teams supporting 25K+ employees across ~50 companies (SAAS paid clients) - Implemented and maintained Knoetic’s first Design System - Interviewed and onboarded 2 senior designers - Led Sprint Retrospectives for Product, Design, and Engineering teams - Facilitated collaborative workshops for the company (process improvement, creative ideation, future product vision, competition analysis) ### Product Designer @ Facebook Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area At Facebook I designed user-friendly enterprise applications (friendly enterprise tools? strange?! I KNOW!), supporting such domains as employee productivity, finance, legal, supply chain, infrastructure planning, data centers, and technical project management (Via AlphaNet) - Owned 15 products during my time at Facebook, supporting 5 enterprise user groups; as the sole designer on the projects, led 3+ projects at any given time - Designed a Budget tool for managing $435M budget across 160 projects - Redesigned a Contracts tool used by 4K active users to manage ~9K contracts per month between Facebook and 60K third parties; ~$100B+ moved in contracts /year - Worked tirelessly to incorporate research into the process and make the products user-centric ### UX Designer @ East West Bank (Velo) Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area - My team and I designed a smooth, intuitive, and innovative Online Account Opening (OAO) flow for a mobile banking app for a particular target audience defined by the client: Experienced Professionals in China - After conducting extensive research and analyzing the data provided by the client, we came up with a simple onboarding flow - Based on the prominent trends among the target audience we included Voice Recognition, Image Parsing, and QR code scanning technology - After iterating on the solution and incorporating feedback, we created High-Fidelity wireframes in Figma following the client's style guide - To take it one step further, we provided the client with several screens showcasing our conceptual future design ideas - Velo was in stealth mode at the time I worked on this project ### UX Designer & Researcher @ General Assembly Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Product Owner @ Finastra Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area - Designed an API for creating organizations, accounts, and users in a management system used by one of the largest banks in the U.K. — Barclays - Defined the functionality and the look and feel (including UI mockups) of a new report feature within the existing reporting system to satisfy a client’s need for specific kind of data - Created User Stories for new features - Worked closely with developers in a cross-functional Scrum team - Contributed to prioritizing features for the Product Roadmap - Participated in Defect Triage meetings with the Architect and Lead Developers to assess the relative priority of the reported defects based on their impact on User Experience - Worked with 2 newly joined remote teams to assists them in learning the products and the processes ### Business System Analyst / Product Analyst @ Finastra Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area [ I joined D+H in 2016. The company got acquired and rebranded to Finastra in 2017 after joining forces with Misys ] - Analyzed the capabilities and limitations of the legacy applications in order to find ways to implement Product Vision - Supported enterprise level software for tracking various kinds of financial transactions — from cash payments to check scanning - Wrote detailed Functional Requirements for new development - Led meetings to present the requirements to developers and QA *D+H: https://www.linkedin.com/company/d-h/ **Misys: https://www.linkedin.com/company/misys/ ### QA Engineer @ AnchorFree Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 - Developed a complete test plan for manual and automated testing and led the QA process of the “Hotspot Shield” application for Windows - Took part in brainstorming sessions with the development team to define expected UX for new features - Regularly communicated the test results to the product manager and provided suggestions for design improvements based on the findings - Performed Functionality and Usability testing, and reported defects BONUS: - Mentored an intern who ended up joining the company full-time! - Worked in a fast-paced startup environment: stayed at work until 9 pm*, ate free avocados** etc. * not every day ** every day :) ### QA Engineer @ Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 ## Education ### UX Design General Assembly ### Software QA Portnov Computer School ### Sociology National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy ### Business Administration and Management Wisconsin International University (USA) in Ukraine ### Berkeley City College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/marynacher --- Source: https://flows.cv/maryna JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/maryna/resume.json Last updated: 2026-02-23