# Steve Tamekuni

> Product designer

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

With over 15 years of work experience, I am a seasoned product designer who specializes in creating user-friendly and engaging solutions for complex problems. My mission is to empower job seekers and employers to connect and communicate effectively through intuitive and accessible platforms.

## Work Experience
### Product Designer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Currently working on the IeX Core Infra Design team, which focuses on designing core infrastructure products that support Meta's internal and external platforms. 

• Led the design on Resource Planner, a tool used within Monetization to order manage capacity
• Currently working on Infra Cloud Portal: Capacity (ICPC), Meta's unified platform for capacity management.

### Senior Product Designer @ Zoom
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Led the design for Zoom Workforce Management, a scheduling and forecasting tool for BCOs and in house customer support teams

### Staff Product Designer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
• Worked on the Job Seeker Experience on the Careers team, which was a part of Linkedin Talent Solutions.

• Worked on Job Search for job seekers. Improving the ability for job seekers to get their way to more relevant jobs. Specifically looking at end of results/no results scenarios. 

• Worked on apply integrations for recruiters. Improved ability for recruiters to connect and keep track of posting jobs to Application Tracking Systems.

### Senior Product Designer @ Malwarebytes
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Santa Clara, California
• Led the design for a stand alone VPN client, Malwareybytes Privacy. The product was taken from concept to deliverable in 6 months and has currently made more than $4 million in ARR

• Led the design for an endpoint monitoring tool for managed security providers. The product was expanded from a tool to a full cloud-based product.

• Led the creation of a redesign concept for the customer support site to improve usability and decrease time to solution

• Leads bi-weekly UX round tables for increased team chemistry and prevention of information siloing

• Works daily with a cross-functional team in an Agile environment

### Interaction Designer @ Ellie Mae
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Pleasanton, CA
• Led the design of a centralized management portal for essential mortgage services to create a consistent experience interacting with 100 different service providers

• Led a design update of the only communication gateway product between lender and consumer in order to address the top 3 customer pain points

• Created updated form patterns for increased usability across the most commonly used forms within the flagship product

• Worked daily with multiple cross-functional teams in an Agile environment

### User Experience Designer/Researcher @ IBM
Jan 2006 – Jan 2015 | San Jose, CA
• Created UX assets (wireframes, low/high fidelity prototypes, design specs) for several content management and discovery products

• Led redesign of two records manager products increasing overall usability scores by 20% and decreasing install time by 50%

• Organized and moderated regular user testing with users/clients in order to meet specific UX quality certification goals

### User Experience Consultant @ Cooliris
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Palo Alto, CA
• Organized and performed a heuristic evaluation of both desktop and mobile versions of LiveShare, a photo messaging application.

• Conducted qualitative research and created 3 key personas to better understand the end users. 

• Performed competitive analysis against ten other photo messaging/sharing applications

• Presented a final report to the CEO and Head of Engineering with prioritized design pain points and redesign suggestions

### User Research Intern @ Interface Analysis Associates
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | Cupertino, CA
• Assisted with data collection during rounds of user testing for a variety of products, both hardware and software.

• Setup user testing environments

• Analyzed quantitative and qualitative data to create summary reports


## Education
### MS in Human Factors/Ergonomics
San José State University

### BS in Cognitive Science w/ specilization in Human Cognition
UC San Diego


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-13