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Francisco Guzman

Senior Staff Product Designer at Instagram

I’ve spent my career defining new products and making them coherent as they scale, from engineering at Stanford to becoming Instacart’s second designer and Nuro’s first. Today I set design direction for Instagram Shopping as a hands-on IC, guiding work across the area while owning its most ambiguous product problems. I’ve also led Instagram’s first Pro subscription and managed design teams of up to seven.

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Shop Everything

Building product discovery into the moment of inspiration

Instagram feed post showing a tagged Dissolve Mug and a View Products control
Product tags on content

I set design direction for Instagram’s Shop Everything work as a hands-on IC—guiding design across the area, aligning teams and leadership, and owning its most ambiguous product problems.

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Pro subscription

Building Instagram’s first subscription for Pros

Verified Instagram profile for Wind & Wool with a blue checkmark beside the handle
Verified Instagram Profile

I led design for Instagram’s first Pro subscription, shaping its benefits and core experience while guiding related design work across the broader program.

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Nuro

Designing delivery without a driver

A customer retrieving groceries from a Nuro autonomous delivery vehicle
Picking up delivery from the vehicle

As Nuro’s first product designer, I designed the delivery experience across consumer apps, vehicle interfaces, and in-store operations, while also conducting user research for the hardware experience.

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Instacart

Turning replacements into a shared decision

Francisco Guzman as an Instacart shopper standing in a grocery store beside the produce aisle
That's me! At Whole Foods

As Instacart’s second product designer, I owned design for logistics and fulfillment—the shopper, driver, in-store, and pickup systems that made grocery delivery work.

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Career

Early-stage startups to global scale.

  1. Instagram2020–now

    Senior Staff Product Designer

    Head product design for Instagram Shopping as a hands-on IC, after serving as Instagram design lead for its first Pro subscription. Previously managed seven designers across Shopping, Business Messaging, and new ad formats; hired three and coached three to promotion.

  2. Nuro2018–2019

    First product designer

    Designed across customer, vehicle, fleet, and remote-operations products.

  3. Instacart2015–2018

    Second product designer

    Led core logistics and fulfillment experiences across shopper and customer products.

  4. Prismatic2013–2014

    Interaction Designer

    Worked across product design and code on a 10-person team.

  5. Stanford UniversityEducation

    MS Symbolic Systems · Human-Computer Interaction

    BS Management Science & Engineering