Dan Becker

Head of Design, Workspace Platform & Gemini Monetization

2024 - Current

Leading the Platform Monetization org focused on WS & Gemini Growth, Onboarding, Admin, and Reporting

Founder & Managing Partner

2020

In 2018, I founded Ligature: The Design VC with Daniel Scrivner. We're an early and growth stage venture fund. Our investments include over 60 investments including Public.com, AtoB, Array, Kittl, Opal, ZIINA, and Kick. We invest and then help founders build design into the DNA of their company from day one.

Advisor

2019

Collaborating on Fund II & Fund III with both Managing Partners on design and product guidance to portfolio companies, and evaluating potential investments through scouting and due diligence.

Head of Design

2023 - 2024

YC and Founders Fund backed company at the intersection of fintech and legal tech.

Head of Product Design, Content Ecosystems

2022 - 2023

Supporting an org building out new product experiences focused on the future of Content on Instagram. This includes Trend Discovery, Music/Audio, and IG's role in the Metaverse

Head of Product Design, Creators & Discovery

2019 - 2022

Built the org and supported teams focused on Creator Ecosystems, Creator Monetization, Global Search & Discovery, and Video Products.

Advisor

2021 - 2023

Advisor

2018 - 2022

Senior Manager, Experience Design

2016 - 2019

Led teams to build the tiering and verification platform for the Airbnb Plus sub-brand. Defined key strategies and drove initiatives for the guest experience at launch, then shifted focus to host onboarding and supply growth. After launch, efforts from my teams scaled Airbnb Plus, driving growth from 20 to 200 markets and revenue from $0 to $750M ARR in under 3 years.

Director, Co-head of Design

2015 - 2016

I led the design team at Strava during hypergrowth alongside Ryan Noonan. During this time I drove initiatives to help increase the Strava community from 8M to 45M+ athletes. United product and brand teams, implementing new design process and bringing a user-centric lens to the work of the team—resulting in award-winning work that accelerated community growth. Managed designers, contractors, vendors; key role in roadmapping, planning, operations with executives.

Product / UX Design Lead, R&D

2014 - 2015

Led R&D team at Airbnb focused on piloting new products to complement core business, under direction of co-founder and CPO Joe Gebbia. Launched Mobile Guidebooks, Experience Marketplace, Guest Trip Mementos, Pocket Concierge, and created strategy for Dynamic Trip Platform. Made significant progress developing entrepreneurial products before team was dissolved to sharpen focus on improving core experiences.