Sahil Khoja
Product Designer/Manager in New York City
About
Skills: Javascript, HTML/CSS, React, Vue.js, Gatsby, Figma
Work Experience
• Shipped headless commerce solutions using Hydrogen and Shopify API to multi-billion dollar retailers
• Worked with OpenAI to implement AI solutions in React on Shopify's Native App
• Built internal spin instances using GraphQL to help teams query sample products (see mock.shop)
• Implemented pixel and SEO tracking using Singular API to track session to downloads from web to iOS
• Led large scale projects using Git with 8-12 engineers, 2 designers
• Instagram TV: launched captions on IGTV in React
• Central Integrity: reallocated $XXM of wasteful spend to active human review
• Instagram Stories: 3x'd GIFs usage in Stories
• Facebook Portal: doubled WAP of Portal Mobile App, increased app store rating from 3.3 to 4.8, shipped end-to-end photo sharing experience featured in F8
• Lift Black Voices Hub: helped launch hub on FB Newsfeed for Juneteenth featuring Black creators and shops
Build social feeds with your friends. Worked with creators like Mr. Beast, Alex Botez, Jake Paul and more. Left after company pivoted. Funded by Electric Capital & Chapter One.
• Redesigned the log-in experience throughout the platform to accommodate multiple accounts. 1.3M+ saved their accounts as a result (Summer 2018)
• Designed & shipped a new advertising format for FB Pages. Increased revenue/year by $XX million.
Also designed and shipped Desktop Kit—over 10k downloads.
Taught INFO 1998: Introduction to Digital Product Design with a couple of other student instructors. The class taught 20+ students every semester about product design and helped students land internships/jobs at Facebook, Salesforce, Microsoft, Vox, Apple, and more. The class was entirely student taught and led.
Clients: Nox (Sam Altman, Village Global), Intuit, Intercom, Function of Beauty, Moments (Chapter One, Electric Capital) Trestle (YC '19), Avro Life Sciences (YC '18), NewCraft (YC '18), TrapFi (YC '18), Abacus (YC '18), NewCraft (YC '18), Slapdash (YC '19), Playbook (askplaybook.com) / etc.
An online course teaching and mentoring students in helping them go from 0 to a product design job in 12 months.
Previously a video & podcast series featuring 16 design students from unconventional backgrounds. Raised grants from Facebook Design, NewCraft, and Cornell. Thousands impressions per episode, all organic marketing.
Designed a mobile version of ProConnect Tax Online for accountants.