Steven Schafer

Steven Schafer

Designer in San Francisco/Stockholm, he/him

I'm a Staff Product Designer at WhatsApp currently based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Prior to WhatsApp, I was a design lead at Spotify introducing Spotify's third content type — audiobooks. Before Spotify I spent 8 years working in Silicon Valley and San Francisco in product & interaction design including at Instagram and Facebook where I helped to scale these products into household names to over a billion people worldwide.

When I'm not at work, I like to nerd out on espresso machines and spend time with my wife and two daughters. I also try and build iOS apps however I’m a lot better at design. Playing around with technologies has enabled me to empathize a lot with engineers during the product development process and has enabled me to produce very high fidelity prototypes.

Work Experience

2023 — Now
Staff Product Designer at WhatsApp
Stockholm, Sweden
2023 — 2023
Stockholm

Focusing on access models and audiobook format innovation.

2021 — 2023
Stockholm

Focused on bringing Audiobooks to market, access models and format innovation.

2021 — 2021
Stockholm

Scaling the design system, product foundation, and design tooling.

2018 — 2021
San Francisco

People engage with businesses in a huge way on Instagram. Business profiles, places, and transaction tools are some of the things that increase valuable interactions between people and businesses on our platform.

2015 — 2018
2014 — 2015
Instagram