Sam Ahmed
Senior Product Designer at Affirm
Senior Product Designer at Affirm, Ex-Amazon, Zulily
I believe that design is the merging of storytelling with usability. I am most passionate about creating a better world, emotional communication, and doing work that impacts the everyday person.
Affirm
https://www.linkedin.com/company/affirm
Senior Product Designer
Affirm is a financial lender of installment loans for consumers to use at the point of sale to finance a purchase. My role focuses on the marketplace, helping consumers make purchases directly from the Affirm app and connect with the growing number of partnered stores.
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Zulily
https://www.linkedin.com/company/zulily
Senior Product Designer
Zulily is an e-commerce daily deals company specializing in women, children, and family. I focused on product discovery, with work including web design, app design, and long-term vision work. Major projects include a long-term vision for the Zulily homepage, v1 components for that homepage redesign, and redesigning search filters.
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Impactive
https://www.linkedin.com/company/impactive-io
Freelance Senior Product Designer
(Collaboration with Biden 2020 campaign) Impactive is a startup offering a political & activist organizing platform on web and app. I designed major features supporting the Biden 2020 whitelabel release including messaging, voter registration, and copy-paste scripts for canvassing. I was the single designer at Impactive, working directly with the CEO and engineering. This was a contract thru STG, a political and public affairs advocacy firm.
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Various
Freelance Creative Director & Dancer
Contract work in the dance and entertainment industry. Work included dance performance, creative direction, choreography, and event production. I debuted my full-length show "Love Letters" in February 2019 to a fully sold out run, supported by a creative residency at Velocity Dance Center. Notable credits include Amazon Prime Day, Seattle Mariners, ESPN Monday Night Football, Seattle Pridefest, Paper Magazine, etc.
Greater Los Angeles Area
Amazon
https://www.linkedin.com/company/amazon
UX Designer II
Lead designer for multiple teams including Customer Reviews, Mobile & App Navigation, Profile, Social Gamification, Shop by Interest, etc. Led vision work and research studies, designed Amazon-wide systems and UI components, launched new products in close collaboration with business and development. Was an established thought leader in social gamified experiences, ethical design, mobile patterns, and defining future visions. (Connected with previous role reflecting internal promotion.)
Greater Seattle Area
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Amazon
https://www.linkedin.com/company/amazon
UX Designer I
Created social experiences involving digital identity and community interaction. Supported Amazon Profile, Follow, and Social Gamification as part of the Engagement Design Group.
Greater Seattle Area
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Carnegie Mellon University
https://www.linkedin.com/company/carnegie-mellon-university
Head of Design & Marketing: Spring Carnival
Carnival is Carnegie Mellon's biggest alumni event. As part of my role on the executive board, I advised our chair on overall strategy and ran a committee which executed our marketing campaign. I designed the 2015 wordmark, website, and marketing materials, as well as launched the first Carnival fundraiser supporting Habitat for Humanity Pittsburgh.
Greater Pittsburgh Area
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Amazon
https://www.linkedin.com/company/amazon
UX Design Intern
Created a design proposal for interfaces in the games section of the Kindle Fire tablet, including both UX and UI/visual design. Focus was on motivating consistent gameplay and discovery thru community engagement. Designed and conducted a research study supporting the final proposal.
Seattle, WA
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National Flag Foundation
Identity Designer
- Conceptualized the ideas of the organization into a visual language and identity.
- Developed a powerful wordmark, website, posters, and stationery package.
- Presented a final brand guideline which allowed for further expansion.
Greater Pittsburgh Area
Vanessa German & Steeltown Entertainment
Design & Social Media Intern
- Worked with artist Vanessa German and Steeltown Entertainment to crowdsource over $13,000 to start a local art-based community center for children.
- Designed the branding of the campaign and carried it through various media (print, web, and social).
- Managed multiple social media platforms (Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter).
Greater Pittsburgh Area
Carnegie Mellon University
https://www.linkedin.com/company/carnegie-mellon-university
Art & Design Assistant
- Produced informational pamphlets and posters to communicate the services provided.
- Merged student priorities with staff resources to improve communications.
Greater Pittsburgh Area
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Communication Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.)
Carnegie Mellon University
https://www.linkedin.com/school/carnegie-mellon-university/
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Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts Dean's List
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Design Portfolio
Showcase of recent work from various projects. Work encompasses book design, web design, mobile design, animation, kinetic typography, publicity design, information design, and photography.
http://www.aahmedsam.com
My Heart Is In the Work
An installation show on "stress culture," a term that refers to an environment where students take on too much, and view high levels of stress as normal. The show displays hundreds of comments by CMU students taken from social media, news articles, interviews, and surveys. How do we define success? How does that begin to affect our relationships with one another?
https://aahmedsam.com/work/my-heart-is-in-the-work
https://www.linkedin.com/in/beanicolas
Beatriz Nicolas
Designer at Zulily
Everett, WA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-godfrey-07502317
Anna Godfrey
Senior Principal Designer
Miami, FL
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyleeabbott
Kylee Abbott
Senior UX Designer at Expedia Group
Seattle, WA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/suprithasuresh
Supritha Suresh
Making Zulily more personalised for you!
Redmond, WA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferctse
Jennifer Tse
Analytics Manager at Zulily
Greater Seattle Area
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuliyabaran
Yuliya Baran
Senior UX Designer at Microsoft
Seattle, WA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicia-kim-17192827
Alicia Kim
Senior Director of Product at HOMER
Portland, OR
https://www.linkedin.com/in/achong
Adrian Chong
Design Leadership @ Shopify
United States
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-shapiro-ux
Rebecca Shapiro
Director Of User Experience at Indeed.com | ex-Amazon, Nordstrom
Seattle, WA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/prashant-jattepalli-1828296b
Prashant Jattepalli
Senior Software Engineer at zulily
Everett, WA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacky-boehm-99b16898
Jacky Boehm
Digital Graphic Designer at GAP
Brooklyn, NY
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeromezhong
Jerome Zhong
Product Design at Cash App
Pittsburgh, PA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/madisonzeller
Madison Zeller
Innovation + Design at Silicon Valley Bank
San Francisco, CA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/constance-chin-93940b3a
Constance Chin
Design Manager at Google—I'm hiring!
Seattle, WA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivy-t-6367a33a
Ivy T.
Senior Manager - Customer Support
Portland, OR
https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-vasquez-97731a14
Victor Vasquez
Graphic Design Professional
Phoenix, AZ
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrod-larson
Jerrod Larson
Sr. Manager, User Experience @ Google
Greater Seattle Area
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yingyanwang
Samantha Wang
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Greater Seattle Area
https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterychau
Peter Chau, MBA
Product Leadership | Agile Coach | Director at MyFitnessPal
Atlanta, GA
https://kr.linkedin.com/in/peter-kim-17a78b2
Peter Kim
Design at Shopify · Hiring. Interested?
Seoul, South Korea
SAM AHMED
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samahmed4440
|US Citizen| As a Senior QA Automation Engineer, with over 8 yrs of Manual and Automation experience in agile development environment Expert in Java, Selenium, BDD ,TDD, Hybrid, UI, Database, API and Mobile validation
New York, NY
Sam Ahmed
https://sg.linkedin.com/in/sam-ahmed-9426a034
Digital Commerce|Fintech|HBS Alumni|Scaling with a mission
Singapore
Sam Ahmed
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-ahmed-0388461ab
Undergraduate student at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service
Dallas, TX
Sam A.
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sam-a-5ba2a5b3
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London
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Delta Tau Delta Fraternity
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/38476
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Carnegie Mellon University
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/131910
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CMU School of Design: Official Alumni Group
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3579592