# Rıza Selçuk Saydam

> Design Leadership at Uber

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rza

Contact: rss.ems@gmail.com (personal) or selcuk@uber.com (work)

## Work Experience
### Design Leadership, Monetization @ Uber
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, CA
I lead monetization initiatives across Uber and Uber Eats, crafting intuitive consumer and business-facing experiences that make discovering affordable meals effortless while empowering merchants to grow.

This work strengthens the core marketplace and supports Uber Advertising, Offers and Promotions surpassing $xxB in annualized revenue, growing over 60% year over year, powered by a talented group of designers and managers across San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, and Bangalore.

### Head of Design @ Applied Intuition
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States
Led the multidisciplinary design function across human-machine interaction, simulation, data and AI products, as well as brand and communication design, to make it safer, easier and faster to bring autonomous vehicles to market; Applied Intuition is valued at $15 billion following its Series F fundraising

### Product Design Manager, Business Messaging Monetization @ Meta
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Menlo Park, California, United States
Supported Business Messaging Monetization efforts across Messenger, Instagram Direct and WhatsApp; 0 to $10 billion+ annual revenue

### Staff Product Designer, Messenger Monetization @ Meta
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020
Lead designer on the monetizing Messenger initiative; 0 to $1B+ annual revenue

### Senior Product Designer, Messenger Growth @ Meta
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
Grew Messenger from 400 million to 1.5 billion+ monthly active people

### Product Designer @ Nokta
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015
Designed products reaching 85% of all Turkish internet users each month, invested by Intel Capital


## Education
### Mathematics and Computer Science
Cankaya University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rssems
- Portfolio: http://www.rss.design

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Last updated: 2026-03-25