I'm a design leader who still builds, and believe that this is how one leads in an AI-first world. I've been a hands-on leader at all shapes and sizes of companies - from FAANG+ (Google, Meta, Microsoft) to startups (including UberEats when it was still an experiment).
I'm a maker-manager and have lived it in every role in my career. There isn't a week I'm not designing in some shape or form, even when my title describes me as a lead, manager, director, or head of design.
I've founded multiple companies, including MTCHMKR, an AI-powered platform for marketers, and a boutique agency in the early NYC tech scene that helped scale businesses like Uber.
I'm drawn to design leadership roles where building and leading aren't separate jobs.
Formative: Writings on Product/Design →
Detailed case studies available upon request
Shopify
Director of Product Design
2025
Responsible for the customer experience for Shopify’s Checkout and Shop Pay products, which transact ~$300B in sales annually.
Launched new payment methods, including Apple Pay and a Coinbase Cryptocurrency partnership (video courtesy of CNBC)
Collaborated with C-level executives on a vision, roadmap and three iterative launch plans for a top company-wide initiative
Partnered with external companies on opportunities to leverage Shopify Checkout for agentic (AI) commerce
Championed and taught internal courses on new AI tool workflows for Design, including Figma MCP, Cursor, Midjourney, and Prompt Engineering for Designers
“Elegant. Mega work.”
Walmart
Director of Product Design
2024
Led a team of designers, design managers and user research to design Walmart’s first Enterprise AI products to run all buyer activities, from product discovery, sourcing and pricing to in-store and online merchandising.
Led Walmart’s first Generative AI for Enterprise application for business strategy, consumer insights, trend forecasting and more.
Responsible for the Buyer experience, including product assortment, inventory, pricing, buyer/supplier touchpoints (all departments, $500B+ revenue).
Physical store retail strategy for 4,600+ stores and eCommerce platform for Walmart’s consumer website and mobile shopping app.
“Some of the best work I’ve seen to come out of this team.”
Meta
Head of Platform & OS
2022
Led a patent-producing design team building a new device category for Meta—including a brand new operating system, design system—leveraging bleeding edge AR/VR technology.
Led a multi-disciplinary design team (product design, research, content) responsible for the operating system and design system for a new hardware product.
Shipped an OS comprised of over 80+ features supporting dozens of product teams including hundreds of engineers.
I worked across teams on hardware divisions on strategic investments across AR and VR in the midst of a company-wide rebrand from Facebook to Meta.
Stood up Craft and Collaboration processes and a shared vision of a platform for connection across products and devices.
“Great job facilitating collaboration in a time of turbulence and ambiguity.”
Product Design Lead
2020
Launched the biggest changes to Google's Local Search in over 5 years to create a more contextual, personalized and visual search (powered by AI/ML) to attract new audiences, particularly GenZ and international users.
Responsible for helping billions of daily users to seek out local destinations such as restaurants, shopping, services and attractions for Google's Local Search.
Set the foundation for a more visual search results and personalized categorical search experience across hundreds of local verticals, including Dining, Shopping, Services, Leisure, Commodities.
“Ron brings a high degree of compassion and humanity to our design practice. He’s not afraid to be vulnerable and lead with his heart.”
Uber Eats
Product Design Lead
2017
When Uber Eats was just an experiment, I was responsible for outlining a vision for how to scale the courier network by 10x while unifying Uber’s Rides and Delivery businesses into a single app for the first time.
Redesigned the Uber Eats delivery experience as it scaled from an experiment in 22 cities, to a $3B revenue business in 120+ cities.
Launched Uber Eats’ first internal research program, in which employees do deliveries to identify gaps and opportunities
Pitched/launched a global philanthropic food donation program delivering thousands of pounds of food to those in need
I am a builder.
With a background in both design and computer science, I’ve fully embraced AI as a way to rethink how we design and build products. I experiment and build both on the job and on my free time, and share my learnings to advance how we work smarter and faster while keeping a high bar.
I lead by example.
I’m a maker at heart and I’ve never stopped designing. I proactively roll up my sleeves when the need arises. I’m able to show rather than just tell, and visualize ideas in a way that can bring designers and cross-functional partners around the work.
Even in an AI world, humans matter.
As a trained researcher with a background on social psychology, I bring heart to raw data and user insight, focusing teams on “who” and “why”. I inspire teams by bringing user insight to life to both build empathy and ensure we’re solving real problems.
I have a systems mindset.
I design product frameworks for scale, future-proofing, and efficiency. I’ve led design systems from scratch, iterated through major rebrands, and worked on complex operating systems for new device categories.