# Shashank Khanna

> Design @ Meta. Leadership, AI Transformation. Ex: Upwork, Yahoo, Microsoft Research, Samsung

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

With 15+ years of design expertise, I've led design for global consumer and business products, elevating the day-to-day life of millions of users across the globe. My strategic leadership, people management, and hands-on design skills help drive business outcomes. I prioritize shaping the vision, nurturing teams, and advancing design maturity through meticulous craft, empathy, and scalable solutions.

## Work Experience
### Product Designer @ Meta
Jan 2026 – Present | United States

### Design Leader @ Upwork
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026
Designing for the AI-driven future of work.

### Yahoo Mail, Director Of Product Design @ Yahoo
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Jose, California, United States
Led Yahoo Mail's design organization as we transformed the personal inbox experience.

### Identity and Privacy Platforms, Sr. Principal Product Designer, Architect @ Yahoo
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Design for Security and Privacy. Led the entire portfolio of privacy, compliance, and identity platforms.

### Yahoo News, Lead Product Designer @ Yahoo
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Led the end-to-end design for the Yahoo newsroom app from 0-1 and global launch.

### Tumblr + (Premium Subscriptions) - Lead Product Designer @ Yahoo
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Yahoo Autos- Sr. Product Designer @ Yahoo
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Yahoo Groups - Sr. Product Designer @ Yahoo
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

### Yahoo Ads and Technology- Product Designer @ Yahoo
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

### Research Intern (User Experience) @ Microsoft Research
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
User Experience Research (Worked on the research project "Supplementary Income Generation through Micro-Tasks for Low-Income Novice Computer Users) under Aishwarya Ratan, Bill Thies, Prof James Davis (UC Santa Cruz) and Prof Anirudha Joshi (IDC, IIT Bombay) at Technology for Emerging Markets Group at Microsoft Research, India.

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=143361

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1926195

Research paper published at ACM SIGDEV, London 2010:
http://sigdev.news.cs.nyu.edu/program

Research Paper: "Evaluating and Improving the Usability of Mechanical Turk for Low-Income Workers in India." Shashank Khanna, Aishwarya Ratan, James Davis, William Thies
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/thies/thies-dev10.pdf

Some online reviews about this project: 

The researchers observed the workers as they plodded along, and decided to design a solution.

The Microsoft interface was much simpler. It used clear, illustrated instructions for each task, which was divided into numbered steps. It cleared out a lot of the visual junk that had distracted the workers, eliminating a complex banner of unrelated links. And it fixed a glitch where hitting the backspace key while outside of a text box reset the entire task.

And as soon as MTurk and competing sites take the lessons of the Microsoft team to heart, making their interfaces more intuitive, microtasks could begin to reach a much broader base of low-income workers, elevating conditions abroad and serving more companies in need of "artificial artificial intelligence."

Article:
http://www.fastcompany.com/1713300/how-amazon-mechanical-turk-fails-but-could-succeed-in-helping-low-income-workers

### UX Intern at Samsung Design Delhi @ Samsung
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009
Interaction Design Internship

### Conservation Architect for Lodhi Gardens @ INTACH
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008

### Architecture Design Intern @ Pankaj Vaid Associates
Jan 2006 – Jan 2006


## Education
### M Des in Interaction Design
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010

### B. ARCH in Architecture
D C R University of Science & Technology, Haryana
Jan 2003 – Jan 2008

### Schooling
Bal Bharti Public School, Pitampura
Jan 1999 – Jan 2003


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khannashashank

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Last updated: 2026-04-07