Leo Succar — Resume

Design Business Company

Web, Design Systems Designer

2025–Present, Remote

Client: Anthropic

Projects: Claude.ai and Anthropic.com (ongoing)

Tight collaboration with 2 lead designers composing, refining, and documenting nearly every page, section, component, animation, and interaction as well as exhaustive quality assurance with developers and client designers and managers.
Employing Figma's best practices, I extended and applied multi-theme system variables, styles, properties, and components across all designs to achieve precision and consistency, as well as extensive reusability and configurability, helping our small team move fast at a high bar.
Detailed rapid prototyping and design engineering with Claude Code.

Sania Saleh Studio

Product, Web Designer

2025, Remote

Client: Sapien

Partnering with Sania, we designed every view, component, and flow of the core consumer-facing product as well as various visually rich and interactive website landing pages for an AI model-training platform where users conduct multi-step tasks and earn rewards and compensation.
Visual explorations and experiments with AI code tools and assistants like Cursor and Claude Code.

Meta

Senior Product Designer

2024–'25, Remote

Team: Identity and Multi-profile Experiences

I used internal AI tools and traditional methods to gather, document, and share deep UX problems and opportunities.
Provided major updates to our guidance, architecture, and patterns, and delivering end-to-end flows for Facebook's cross-platform (iOS, Android, and web) push and in-app notifications from all of a user's additional profiles across diverse use cases—professional and personal—inline with precise internal systems.
Partnered on design for simplifying the management of multiple profile roles and types.

BitGo

Senior Product, Design Systems Designer

2023–'24, Remote

With 5 designers and many more PMs/engineers, we collected user feedback and delivered data-driven interface and flows for innovative financial web apps, including onboarding, dashboards, and global trading and transactions.
Upgraded, extended, iterated, documented, and maintained a large, token/variable-heavy atomic design system, including layouts, templates, flows, patterns, and content/copy.

Plasmic

Founding Designer

2020–'24, San Francisco, CA and Remote

Supporting a global team of up to 14 engineers, I led the design of every interface, component, and flow for a low-code visual design and development tool helping people be expressive and productive when creating for the web.
Work also included feature ideation, documentation, crafting templates, implementation, as well as company branding and communication design.

Facebook

Product, Design Systems Designer

2018–'20, Menlo Park, CA

Teams: xDesign, Core Systems

1 other designer and I oversaw the customer feedback and interview-driven designs of a complex suite of software engineering/developer tools and web applications supporting Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, Oculus, and more.
Alongside 3 other designers, we spearheaded a highly-demanded unifying React-based atomic design system for teams company-wide resulting in a visual and UX reshaping of 100s of internal tools and products, with some branding.
Collaborated closely with PMs, engineers, designers, and managers on cross-company, high-impact, often drastically unassociated systems, tools, and products—providing design services to a handful of unique teams.
I introduced and championed Figma to internal-facing design teams—creating shared resources and libraries—helping to vastly speedup their flows.

Sourcegraph

Senior Product Designer

2017–'18, San Francisco, CA

Mostly a solo designer to a company of all engineers, I led design strategy, user interviews, explorations, custom icons, flows, and prototypes for a web app and Chrome/VS Code extensions that allowed large developer teams to search and manage their company codebases—along with branding, sales, and growth-led projects.

Zenefits

Product Designer

2016, San Francisco, CA

Together with PMs and engineers, I completed entire designs for 1 internal and 3 customer-facing core web app products, including new, comprehensive consumer-facing employee payroll and PTO SaaS web apps while contributing to extensive candidate hiring, team growth, and training.