# Omar A.

> 📚 Staff Product Designer @ Quizlet | ex-Nextdoor | 2x Founder

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/omara1

Designer & startup founder with roots in software engineering. I have a passion for crafting intuitive, delightful experiences that empower people to better utilize technology in service of their goals. In the last 10+ years, I was fortunate to have designed several consumer products used by tens of millions of people all around the world, most of which has been in the 0-1 space.

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer @ Quizlet
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA
Leading design systems & building the foundations that power quality and velocity at Quizlet

### Design Consultant / Advisor @ aleisa.me
Jan 2010 – Present
Working with startups & early stage founders providing consultation services for product design & strategy. My clients are backed by Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, QED Investors and others.

### Senior Product Designer @ Nextdoor
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Helped conceptualize & designed features that drove growth across the funnel, such as a 7% lift in digital invites sent leading to a similar increase in user growth rate.
- Designed several retention initiatives, driving a 0.2–2.7% increase in WAU.
- Led design efforts for a partnership with Microsoft on major roadmap features.
- Designed UI components & contributed to Nextdoor’s design system.

### Co-Founder / Advisor (Exited) @ Sibly
Jan 2016 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Sibly is a whole-person mental health platform that empowers organizations and their people by making science-based coaching accessible at anytime, extremely scalable, and effective at tackling the widest-range of concerns impacting people’s lives.

In 2024, Sibly exited through a merger to be part of Quarvis Health.

### Co-Founder / Head of Design & User Experience @ Sibly
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Responsible for designing end-to-end member & coach experience
- Hired & managed a full-time product designer, part-time illustrator & design agency
- Led design efforts & acted as interim product manager in an 8-month, multi-million dollar co-development project with Comcast to build the Sibly wellness platform

### Co-Founder / Head of Engineering @ Sibly
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
- Solely architected and developed the entire Sibly software system using technologies like node.js, MySQL, Objective-C, and HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
- Recruited & directly managed 3 software engineers.

### Product Design @ Flagship
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Helped establish product design at Flagship & bring the product to life.
- Owned designing the whole creator & shopper experience, conducted user interviews, worked on improving conversions, as well as product / design strategy.

Flagship aims to create a fair and equitable creator commerce ecosystem. The company is backed by Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures and several industry leaders from the leading platform and e-commerce brands.

### Co-Founder / Lead Product Designer @ Feelit, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Feelit's mission was to connect people around emotions. Under Feelit, we built and launched mobile & web consumer products used by 250,000+ users.

Our flagship product was Feelit, a social network that provided an intimate, safe space for people to form communities, express their feelings and communicate through them.

We also built Chubble, the private live-streaming app for friends and family, powered by emotions. I worked on increasing Chubble's activation numbers from 10% to 55% which led to 10x organic growth in 2 months & app trending as #1 in the iOS App Store.

### Co-Founder / Product Designer and Web Developer @ Wain Nakel (Where to Eat?)
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Solving the problem of deciding where to eat, mainly targeting locals in Saudi Arabia and the gulf region. The app was selected by Apple to be featured on the App Store.

### Summer Intern @ Elm Company
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Riyadh
- One of the largest tech companies in Saudi Arabia.
- Tasks included: UI/UX design, requirements analysis, and iOS development.

### Graphic Designer @ Tam Development LLC
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Graphic designer for a period of 2 months in iRead, a program by Saudi Aramco.

### Photographer @ The 11th Gifted Students Program at KFUPM
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Dhahran, Saudi Arabia


## Education
### B.S. degree (with honors) in Software Engineering
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Jan 2009 – Jan 2014

### Fall 2012 in Student Exchange Program
Texas A&M University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012

### July-August 2010 in English Summer Course
Vancouver English Center


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/omaraleisa
- Portfolio: https://aleisa.me

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Last updated: 2026-03-30