Lily Konings

Lily Konings

Product Design Manager in San Francisco, CA, she/her

Work Experience

2020 — Now
Product Design Manager at Instagram
San Francisco

Leading the Instagram Reels team to build the best consumption experience for short-form videos. Prior, supported the launch of Community Chats, a 0-to-1 product integrating real-time messaging into communities within Meta, such as Facebook Groups and Instagram creator-driven followers.

2021 — 2023
Design Advisor at Startups

Advising early startups, helping them with product direction, building the first product milestones, and hiring talent to grow a robust team.

2018 — 2020
San Francisco, CA

Led redesign of Company Profiles to 3x user signup and application conversions. Hired the company's first dedicated UXR.

2016 — 2018
Software Developer & Designer at IBM
Boston, MA

Incubated new products at the intersection of AI and healthcare, such as:
• Care Advisor for Breast, reads screening mammograms
• Watson Imaging Clinical Review 2.0, detects discrepancies within hospital documentation
• Partnership with the American Cancer Society to improve patients' understanding of their cancer

2013 — 2015
Freelance at ~7 Startups
Ithaca, NY

Projects

2020

A career advice newsletter for budding designers.

2020

A conference for 4k+ women on how to become better investors, stronger negotiators, and overall more educated financial decision-makers.

Side Projects

2017

Password protect Jekyll posts

2016

A Jekyll portfolio template

2014

Simplifying Wikipedia

Education

2012 — 2016
Computer Science at Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

Contact

Twitter
LinkedIn
Instagram

Teams

Current
Figma Design