15+ years · Seattle, WA
Resumé
Karim Naguib's product design, research, and executive leadership experience.
Profile
Product design and research leader with 15+ years across A Place for Mom, Indeed, Booking.com, and SkillAcademy. Grew distributed teams from 3 to 20+, managed managers, led platform work used by 400+ partners, and shipped 90 successful experiments to millions of Booking.com visitors. Studied engineering and still prototypes and writes code. Native Arabic speaker with product and research experience across left-to-right and right-to-left markets.
- Lead Product Design and Research across the connected family, provider, and advisor experience.
- Set the product vision and research agenda for high-stakes senior-care decisions, bringing customer evidence into strategy and delivery.
- Build the design foundations, research practices, partnerships, and quality bar needed to connect family needs with measurable product outcomes.
- Unified fragmented AI screening and automation work into a shared platform across employer and job-seeker experiences on mobile and desktop.
- Ran rapid RITE research so teams could test ideas together and make launch decisions from shared evidence.
- Created prompt and evaluation templates, launch-readiness reviews, a weekly AI Demo Hour for approximately 65 attendees, and a self-serve prototyping stack that shortened concept-to-prototype cycles.
- Led 10+ designers, researchers, and content designers across the portfolio.
- Led design for Interview Agent within Career Scout, enabling job seekers to schedule, reschedule, and manage interviews in natural language.
- Resolved resourcing and prioritization conflicts across teams so the product could meet launch deadlines.
- Owned the product experience for real-time interviews that instantly matched job seekers and employers.
- Set the vision, strategy, and roadmap with product and engineering leaders, then installed sprint planning, design reviews, and research-sharing cadences to move it toward launch.
- Directed the product's launch story across video and internal and external marketing.
- Launched Indeed Talent Scout, formerly Indeed Assistant, bringing Indeed workflows directly into employer ATS and CRM tools.
- Defined the zero-to-one vision, pitched it to executives, secured resources, and kept partner teams aligned through launch.
- Built team ceremonies, performance systems, and growth paths that supported multiple promotions.
- Managed managers and led a 20+ person organization across design, research, content design, and design technology.
- Launched Indeed's Developer Experience Platform across Partner Home, Developer Home, and Developer Documentation.
- Delivered documentation, SDKs, test tooling, and sample applications, with contribution and review workflows that improved partner reliability and reuse.
- Improved onboarding for 400+ ATS partners so teams could build, test, and launch integrations with less friction.
- Defined interoperability between Indeed and third-party hiring platforms and launched the Integration Marketplace and ATS Sync experience.
- Standardized partner onboarding and integration patterns so teams could build and launch integrations faster and more consistently.
- Led a six-person design and research team from strategy through delivery for SMB and enterprise sourcing products.
- Contributed to 16× ARR growth from 2017 to 2021 by connecting the long-term Smart Sourcing vision to a coordinated family of Indeed services across SMB and enterprise customers.
- Developed designers and strengthened planning, research, and delivery across the team.
- Designed and shipped traveler and property-partner experiences across localization, consumer behavior, experimentation, and property management.
- Executed hundreds of A/B tests, delivering 90 successful experiments that scaled to millions of visitors.
- Served as the MENA product strategy subject-matter expert and led international research and testing.
- Designed and coded experiments in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and helped maintain reusable sitewide components that improved consistency and reduced repeated implementation work.
- Designed and implemented the initial end-to-end education platform across desktop and mobile.
- Led online user research and created the acquisition, onboarding, navigation, and core learning flows that formed the company's first market offering.
German University in Cairo
- Designed and launched internal staff and student platforms that made student-teacher communication easier and reduced administrative work.
Education
German University in Cairo
BSc, Digital Media Engineering. Human-Computer Interaction thesis and research at the University of Augsburg: Exploring Direct Interaction Between Mobile Devices and Public Displays.
Languages & global work
Native Arabic speaker; professional English; cross-cultural research and product experience across international markets.
Capabilities
- Executive leadership and organization design
- Product strategy, vision, and zero-to-one development
- Consumer, B2B, enterprise, SaaS, and marketplaces
- Design research, experimentation, analytics, and personalization
- AI products, evaluation, human-in-the-loop systems, and automation
- Design engineering, technical prototyping, developer experience, and partner platforms
- Internationalization, localization, Arabic, and RTL/LTR interfaces
- Design systems, accessibility, product quality, and delivery operations
