Chris Ota
Staff Product Designer at LinkedIn
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Ota is a San Francisco–based Staff Product Designer with 12 years of experience shaping complex B2B and consumer products, most recently leading design for Lyft Business and now at LinkedIn. Originally from Hawaii, he blends island-honed community sensibilities with Silicon Valley rigor to drive product strategy, growth, and platform design across large-scale systems. His background includes UI work at Apple Maps and a steady progression from web and interface design roles to senior leadership, demonstrating deep domain expertise in travel, admin, and concierge workflows. Chris is equally comfortable shipping pixel-perfect interfaces and influencing cross-functional roadmaps, mentoring teams to turn ambiguous problems into measurable outcomes. He maintains a public creative presence (see codepen.io/chrisota) that reflects a hands-on craft orientation beyond corporate design work. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic designer who surfaces elegant solutions while keeping operational scale and business impact front and center.
12 years of coding experience
AS Interface Design, AS Interface Design at Kapi‘olani Community CollegeGithub contributions (1)
ikayzo/indri
Aug 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:44 commits in 2 months
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