Kian Lavi
Senior Product Designer at WhatsApp
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKian Lavi is a Senior Product Designer based in Berkeley with 11 years of experience designing complex consumer and enterprise products, currently shaping WhatsApp’s Click-to-Message and business messaging strategy across India, Brazil, and legal partnerships. He spent eight years at Meta leading privacy and ads-targeting design efforts that balanced user agency with business impact, including work that influenced policy changes and large-scale product shifts. Kian also led an internal startup incubator project, Nextria, where he creative-directed cross-disciplinary teams to build an AI-driven multiplayer RPG, reflecting a rare blend of product design and worldbuilding. Earlier he ran a freelance design practice that seeded sustainable design programs for Bay Area startups, intentionally making himself obsolete by building teams and processes. A photographer and occasional writer, he brings cognitive-science-informed thinking and a hands-on engineering background to design problems, often surfacing non-obvious systems-level solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoUniversidad de Belgrano
English, Spanish, Persian, French
Github Skills (25)
product-design9
macbook-pro8
touchbar7
react6
sublime6
dock5
widgets5
macos-big-sur4
directive4
forum3
macos3
polymer3
spotify-api3
statusbar3
web-components2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kianlavi/bentley-pantone
Aug 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
kianlavi/nova
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:1 release, 108 pushes, 6 branches in 26 days
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