# Shawn Elson

> Lead Product Designer | (x Meta, Electronic Arts, Workday, Netscape)

Location: San Carlos, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/shawnelson

T shape skill set with deep UI/UX/Visual and Product Management experience.

## Work Experience
### Head of Design @ Stealth AI Startup
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Building an AI powered consumer platform. Backed by a tier-1 VC.

### Product Designer @ Meta
Jan 2017 – Jan 2024 | Menlo Park
Projects included the Meta messaging ecosytem including Meta AI, helping Creators with inspiration, trends and publishing, building a cross-Meta insights platform for the music industry, helping copyright holders manage and monetize the use of their content on the Meta platform, and supported Meta's XR ecommerce efforts.

### UX Lead @ Meta
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Menlo Park, CA
Focused on improving the Facebook Business experience for advertisers.

### UX Advisor @ VectorCare Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco
Advising on mobile and desktop user experience for the Medlert Emergency Response System.

### UX Lead, Art Director @ Electronic Arts (EA)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Redwood Shores
Worked as UI/UX Lead and Art Director for Scrabble app.  I had individual duties which included wireframing, prototyping and developing visual designs as well as management duties that included leading production art teams in Redwood Shores, Toronto and Saint Petersburg, Russia.

### Founder @ Speedette
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Speedette is a tool for tracking the topics that matter most to you.

### Consultant @ StumbleUpon
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco, CA
Individual contributor as UX researcher, designer and manager.  Created a user panel and research program.  Researched the core StumbleUpon experience and worked with product teams to apply findings to the redesign of the StumbleUpon mobile and Web experiences.

### Senior UX Manager @ Workday
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Managed UX for Mobile, Social, and HTML5.  Product owner for core UI team.

### Senior UX Designer @ Workday
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012

### Principal @ Elson User Experience, LLC
Jan 2002 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco, CA
Elson User Experience has been providing research, design, and strategy services to Fortune 500 and other companies since 2002. Our efforts have been based on our belief that research and design direction should be integrated with our client's organization and goals, rather than be dictated from an external design "expert."

### Usability Architect @ VeriSign
Jan 1998 – Jan 2002

### UI Design @ Netscape Communications
Jan 1996 – Jan 1998


## Education
### MS in Information Design and Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology

### BA in English
Tufts University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-08