Maya Okonkwo
Senior Product Designer
- Location
- San Francisco
- Experience
- 8 years
- Rate
- $120/hr
- Response
- 92% · 1 day
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02·About
Summary
Maya is a senior product designer with 8 years of experience shipping product surfaces at high-growth software companies. Currently open to offers — open to full-time and contract roles in San Francisco or remote.
03·Impact
Numbers that matter
A snapshot of what Maya has moved the needle on across recent roles.
12+
Products shipped
3.4M
Users reached
42%
Avg. activation lift
04·Experience
Career highlights
- L2022 — Present
Senior Product Designer
Linear
Owns core product surfaces end-to-end. Partners with engineering leads on architecture decisions and mentors mid-level seniors across the team.
- P2019 — 2022
Mid-level Designer
Prior company
Grew product depth on core surfaces, launched a redesigned onboarding flow, and helped set up the design systems team.
- E2016 — 2019
Junior Designer
Early company
First product hire. Contributed across product, brand, and marketing surfaces in a small team.
05·Portfolio
Selected work
Recent projects shipped end-to-end. Case studies available on request.
06·Skills & tools
What they work with
Core strengths
07·Education
Where they studied
Rhode Island School of Design
2012 — 2016BFA, Graphic Design
Graduated with honors. Thesis on adaptive typography systems.
Interaction Design Foundation
2018Certificate, UX Research
Advanced coursework on qualitative research and usability testing.
08·Looking for
Ideal next role
- Role type
- Full-time · Contract
- Work style
- Remote-first · Hybrid OK
- Team size
- Series A–C, 20–200 people
- Comp range
- $120/hr/yr + equity
- Notice period
- 2 weeks
- Relocation
- Open to NYC, Berlin, Lisbon
09·Recommendation
What colleagues say
Working with Maya raised the bar for everyone. Rare mix of taste, systems thinking, and a bias for shipping. Would hire again in a heartbeat.
Priya Ramanathan
VP Design, Linear
10·Languages
Speaks
English
Native
Spanish
Professional
Portuguese
Conversational
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