Portfolio · Brooklyn, NY
Maya Okonkwo
Senior Product Designer
maya.okonkwo@email.com · (415) 555-0148 · mayaokonkwo.design · linkedin.com/in/mokonkwo
About
Senior Product Designer with 8 years shaping end-to-end experiences for fintech and SaaS. Led design systems at a 120-person org, shipping tools used by 2M+ people. Equal parts systems thinker and ship-it operator.
Selected Work
2022-03 – Present
Lattice
Remote
Senior Product Designer
- —Led the redesign of the performance review flow, lifting completion rate from 61% to 88% across 4,200 customers.
- —Built and maintained the design system used by 14 designers and 40 engineers, cutting new-feature build time by ~30%.
- —Ran a quarterly research program surfacing 12+ synthesis insights that redirected the 2024 roadmap.
2019-06 – 2022-02
Stripe
Remote
Product Designer
- —Designed the onboarding experience for Stripe Capital, cutting time-to-first-offer from 9 days to 3.
- —Partnered with PM and eng to ship a customizable merchant dashboard used by 90k businesses.
- —Mentored two junior designers and ran the internal design critique forum.
2017-08 – 2019-05
Foursquare
New York, NY
Junior Designer
- —Shipped the city-guides editor used by 1,200+ contributors each month.
- —Owned the migration of the consumer app’s icon system to a unified set.
Skills
Education
BFA, Interaction Design · Parsons School of Design
2013 – 2017
New York, NY
Graduated with honors. Thesis on adaptive interfaces for low-bandwidth users.
Projects
Atlas Design System · github.com/mokonkwo/atlas
An open-source design system documentation tool with live code sandboxing.
React · TypeScript · Figma API
Certifications
Nielsen Norman UX Certification · NN/g
2021