Resume
Julie Manzi
Senior Product Designer
Multidisciplinary designer focused on UX: creative, data-driven, and deeply curious about people and their needs, aspirations, and desires. With 3.5+ years at Meta and 8+ years at Vivint and Radius (Jabil), I design products in both the physical and digital space that make the world more convenient, safe, and delightful.
5+surfaces owned
1.5M+advertisers reached
2–3×goals exceeded
11+major launches
Experience
Product Designer · Meta
Sept 2022 – May 2026
Cross-Org Design Lead & Strategist (2025–2026)
- Led a cross-organizational personalization initiative across 4+ teams and 5+ product surfaces, reaching the majority of active advertisers globally.
- Defined a 2-year product vision presented to senior leadership, securing continued investment and new partnerships.
- Exceeded metric goals by 2–3× across all major launches, leading roadmap planning for key optimization features.
Multi-Project Design Lead (2024–2025)
- Redesigned a campaign optimization feature across desktop and mobile, exceeding revenue goal by roughly 3×; a companion notification framework enabled 5 new recommendation types.
- Designed an AI-powered advertiser support handoff, shipped to open beta, co-defining a vision that contributed to a multibillion-dollar AI advertising opportunity.
- Designed a personalized competitive benchmarking system across 5+ surfaces; a social proof experiment drove a 20%+ engagement improvement.
Platform Transition & 0-to-1 Design (2023–2024)
- Led 0-to-1 design of a performance snapshot analytics widget, launched to roughly 1.5M exposures (about 80% of the surface's active users) with no regressions.
- Designed a one-click budget resolution flow that drove a 25%+ improvement in adoption; the interaction pattern was adopted org-wide.
E-Commerce Product Designer (2022–2023)
- Designed a "best-selling" trust signal for two major mobile shopping platforms, shipped to roughly 20% of product page traffic and driving lifts in GMV, buyer conversion, and average order value.
- Contributed reusable components to the design system and built cross-functional relationships across engineering, data science, and product.
Lead UX Designer · Vivint Smart Home
Nov 2021 – Sep 2022
- Promoted to Lead after 2.5 years; mentored multiple designers across product streams.
- Led UX for core infrastructure products and a key DIY smart home initiative for iOS and Android, owning end-to-end design from concept through high-fidelity prototype.
- Established repeatable storyboarding, wireframing, and prototyping frameworks adopted by the broader design team.
Senior UX Designer · Vivint Smart Home
Jun 2019 – Nov 2021
- Designed across smart home and security product surfaces with deep focus on information architecture and complex user flows.
- Produced storyboards, journey maps, and high-fidelity prototypes to align stakeholders and engineering.
- Partnered with research to validate concepts through usability testing and iterative refinement.
Senior Designer → UX Designer → Industrial Design Intern · Radius Innovation & Development (Jabil)
May 2014 – Jun 2019 · Clinton & Waltham, MA
- Progressed from Industrial Design Intern to Senior Designer over 5 years at a Jabil innovation studio, building expertise in UX design, information architecture, design documentation, and user research across a range of physical and digital product domains.
Education
BFA, Industrial Design
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA · Class of 2014
Design tools
FigmaSketchFramerAdobe Creative Cloud
Practice
0-to-1 DesignMobile (iOS/Android)PrototypingWireframingStoryboardingJourney MappingDesign SystemsDesign SprintsWorkshop FacilitationDesign Governance
Research & data
A/B TestingExperiment DesignData VisualizationMetric-Driven DesignUser Research