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Francisco Guzman

Senior Staff Product Designer at Instagram

I like building things that don’t exist yet.I’ve spent my career taking new products from 0 to 1, working as a hands-on designer, leading design teams, and sometimes doing both. That path started with engineering and HCI at Stanford and led into startups, where I was Instacart’s second product designer and Nuro’s first. Today I head product design for Shopping, after serving as design lead for Instagram’s first Pro subscription for creators and businesses.

Shop Everything

Building product discovery into the moment of inspiration

Celine Dion in an Instagram Shopping campaign frame with a Michael Kors product tag

I head product design for Instagram Shopping as a hands-on IC. I directly own key product work and set direction across discovery, creator and seller tools, Visual Search, and AI, keeping the experience cohesive across teams.

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Pro subscription

Building Instagram’s first subscription for Pros

Meta Verified badge beside Instagram creator and business subscription surfaces

I was Instagram’s design lead for Meta Verified, its first platform subscription for creators and businesses. I led the core benefits from concept through launch, then took on growth, while guiding product and design across onboarding, account management, and the free-versus-paid model. Meta Verified became a meaningful new business for Meta and helped pave the way for broader investment in subscriptions.

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Nuro

Designing delivery without a driver

A customer retrieving groceries from a Nuro autonomous delivery vehicle

As Nuro’s first product designer, I mapped the decisions a driver normally handled across customer, vehicle, autonomy, and operations systems, and helped launch one connected service.

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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

As Instacart’s second product designer, I turned replacements into a shared fulfillment state for shoppers and customers while the order was underway.

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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