Rıza Saydam
Senior Product Design Manager at Uber
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRıza Saydam is a Senior Product Design Manager based in San Francisco with 14 years of experience shaping high-impact consumer and autonomous-vehicle products. He has led design teams at Uber, Applied Intuition, and Meta, driving monetization efforts that scaled messaging products from zero to billions in annual revenue and growing Messenger from 400M to 1.5B+ monthly users. At Applied Intuition he ran a multidisciplinary design function bridging human-machine interaction, simulation, data products and brand for a company valued at $6B. He combines a strong mathematical and CS foundation with a pragmatic product sensibility, shipping designs that balance technical constraints and business outcomes. Known for scaling design organization and cross-functional collaboration, he excels at translating complex systems into simple, usable experiences. He also brings international product roots—having designed for a Turkish audience reaching 85% of internet users there—bringing a global perspective to product decisions.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Cankaya University
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Github contributions (5)
rssems/Coast-Guide-of-Turkey
Dec 2018 - Jun 2025
Contributions:1 push in 6 years 6 months
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