# Steve Selzer

> Design leader, entrepreneur, and 0-to-1 builder

Location: Oakland, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/steveselzer

## Work Experience
### Principal Product Designer, Alexa AI @ Amazon
Jan 2024 – Present
Shaping the future of Alexa.

### Sr. Staff Product Designer @ Cruise
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Led cross-functional initiatives to build trust and achieve product-market fit among riders and the public. Evolved the mobile app for current riders and defined in-cabin UX for future vehicles.

### Director, Head of Design @ Bungalow
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
Led design for a 2-sided real estate marketplace startup (from Series A-to-C). Hands-on building product, brand, and a design practice with a small but mighty team.

### Design Consultant @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Led design initiatives to transform the Google Cloud web experience including navigation, information architecture, interactive technical demos, and the home page.

### Sr. Design Manager @ Airbnb
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018
Led and scaled design across a portfolio of products and business units including Experiences, Airbnb for Work, Payments, and more. Managed ICs, design managers, and cross-functional partners (dotted-line reporting).

Transformed business travel at Airbnb into a corporate offering called Airbnb for Work. Led design, strategy, vision, and roadmap to go beyond travel into offsites, team-building, and professional development as a way to help companies grow and retain their talent.

### Design Director @ frog
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Led client engagements end-to-end. Expertise in research, design, strategy, business development, and recruiting. Managed junior and senior designers including interaction, visual, and brand design.

Clients include Chase, Verizon, Disney, Westfield, Dolby, Skype, Asurion, Amgen, Faraday Future, and many more.

### Associate Design Director @ frog
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014

### Principal Designer @ frog
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013

### Senior Interaction Designer @ frog
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012

### Interaction Designer II @ frog
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011

### Principal, Cofounder @ Switchboard International
Jan 2005 – Jan 2010
Cofounded a 501(c)3 nonprofit that built high-impact, low-cost program and technology solutions in Africa through design-led research, innovation, and strategic partnerships.

### Adjunct Instructor @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009
Developed robust curriculum and co-taught Designing for Service graduate studio course working with Pittsburgh's Post-Gazette, covering fundamentals of services & design theory. Taught students client project process, design research methods, synthesizing & modeling insights, idea generation, and creating compelling arguments.


## Education
### Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering + Chinese Studies (Minor)
UC San Diego


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-13