# Michal Vaško

> Product Design Lead @ Meta | Leading Vision & Strategy for AI Inspiration Team

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michalvako

## Work Experience
### Product Design Lead @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Leading Vision & Strategy for an Inspirational AI Team.

### Staff Product Designer @ Meta
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
Leading 0-1 design innovation work streams to empower new participation experiences within Facebook Groups by enabling anonymous and pseudonymous presence. Close partnerships with Leadership XFN, leveraging data, research and AI to implement user-centered design approaches to deliver efficient and delightful solutions.

🏆 Successfully relaunched an anonymous posting feature in Groups in 2023, resulting in 7000% year-over-year increase in adoption/participation. This significant launch had a positive impact on the entire Facebook app metrics, contributing to a notable +0.03% increase y/y.

### Senior Product Designer @ Meta
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, California, United States
As a first hire on commerce design team, I played a pivotal role in conceptulizing, prototyping and and successfully launching the "Shops" feature on FB and IG, enhancing the user experience by streamlining the discovery, engagement, and purchasing process for Shops on Facebook and Instagram.

### Senior Product Designer @ Meta
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, California
Shipped variety of features to improve and scale Marketplace experiences. My focus was on creating user-friendly and scalable system that enhanced discovery framework, simplified navigation and focused on seller retention. I believe in the power of collaboration and thoughtful design to make each user's journey seamless and engaging. It was a privilege to be part of the great design team very early in the Marketplace's journey.

### Product Design Manager @ LinkedIn
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Leading an amazing team of 8 designers to innovate, scale and deliver attractive and valuable product solutions for one of the Linkedin's B2B flagship products for sales and business professional, LinkedIn Sales Navigator.

• Close collaboration with Design, VP, PMs, DS, UXR and ENG.
• Strategy, innovation and execution

### Staff User Experience Designer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Leading the design team and closely collaborated with leadership to define the strategy of the new features and planned launches of the new product offering for LinkedIn Sales Solutions.

### Senior User Experience Designer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Head of Product Design @ Voxer
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led small team of designers to support all design and design strategy efforts for iOS, Android and web products.

### Head Of Design @ Badoo
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | London, United Kingdom
Badoo is a dating-focused social network operating in 190 countries and is available in 47 different languages, making it the world's most widely used dating network. The app is available on iOS, Android, and the web.

### Founder @ wacho.me
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013

### Design Team Lead @ ShipServ
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | London, United Kingdom
World leaders in the online marine supplies & online marine chandlery business, ShipServ helps buyers and sellers of marine supplies to save time and money.

### Senior Designer - Freelance @ Sunday
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | London, United Kingdom

### Senior Product Designer @ VisualDNA
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
VisualDNA helps you to know yourself better. Over 40 million people have taken our free visual personality test. Try it too and find out more about who you are.

### Senior Web Designer @ Brand New Vision
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | London, United Kingdom

### Middleweight Designer @ Goose Creative Ltd
Jan 2006 – Jan 2009 | London, United Kingdom

### Web Designer @ TSM London
Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 | London, England, United Kingdom

### Junior Designer @ Rivera Advertising Company & Freelance
Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 | Spišská Nová Ves, Kosice, Slovakia


## Education
### Extended Studies in d.School - Design Thinking: Design Implementation
Stanford University

### Graphic Design
Kingston University

### Multimedia Technologies
University of Zilina

### Information Technology
Gymnázium Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michalvasko
- Portfolio: https://www.wacho.me/
- Portfolio: http://bento.me/wacho

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Last updated: 2026-04-13