Caitlin Osbahr, product designer
Caitlin Osbahr, product designer
Caitlin Osbahr,
product designer
Experience
Yahoo
Lead Product Designer, Weather
2024-Present
Principal of Design, Commerce
2023–2024
I'm currently designing the first refresh of Yahoo Weather in a decade, starting with a revamp of our web properties.
Prior to joining Weather, I was the Principal of Product Design for Commerce, co-leading the team and doing things like:
Coaching designers on craft, collaboration, and communication
Prototyping a strategy for Yahoo Shopping
Leading Yahoo's first design mentorship program
Establishing and refining critique processes
Conducting UX research
Running retrospectives, workshops, and design sprints
Yahoo
Lead Product Designer, Weather
2024-Present
Principal of Design, Commerce
2023–2024
I'm currently designing the first refresh of Yahoo Weather in a decade, starting with a revamp of our web properties.
Prior to joining Weather, I was the Principal of Product Design for Commerce, co-leading the team and doing things like:
Coaching designers on craft, collaboration, and communication
Prototyping a strategy for Yahoo Shopping
Leading Yahoo's first design mentorship program
Establishing and refining critique processes
Conducting UX research
Running retrospectives, workshops, and design sprints
Yahoo
Lead Product Designer, Weather
2024-Present
Principal of Design, Commerce
2023–2024
I'm currently designing the first refresh of Yahoo Weather in a decade, starting with a revamp of our web properties.
Prior to joining Weather, I was the Principal of Product Design for Commerce, co-leading the team and doing things like:
Coaching designers on craft, collaboration, and communication
Prototyping a strategy for Yahoo Shopping
Leading Yahoo's first design mentorship program
Establishing and refining critique processes
Conducting UX research
Running retrospectives, workshops, and design sprints
Asana
IC Lead, Essentials Pillar
2023
IC Lead, Align + Coordinate Areas
2023
Staff Product Designer
2021-2023
As the principal designer (IC Design Lead) for Asana’s NYC-based product areas, Align and Coordinate, I worked with 7 squads to raise the quality and consistency bar. I was later promoted to lead all program teams under the Essentials pillar, covering features from Tasks and Projects to Workflow and Pay products. Prior to becoming IC Lead, I designed for core experience teams like Search, Goals, and Portfolios. My responsibilities as Lead included:
Defining “quality” and elevating design craft and execution
Connecting the dots across all product surfaces
Mentoring designers
Filling whitespace as a product designer on ambiguous, high-impact programs
Driving and defining executable strategies to improve core features and creating new business use cases
Asana
IC Lead, Essentials Pillar
2023
IC Lead, Align + Coordinate Areas
2023
Staff Product Designer
2021-2023
As the principal designer (IC Design Lead) for Asana’s NYC-based product areas, Align and Coordinate, I worked with 7 squads to raise the quality and consistency bar. I was later promoted to lead all program teams under the Essentials pillar, covering features from Tasks and Projects to Workflow and Pay products. Prior to becoming IC Lead, I designed for core experience teams like Search, Goals, and Portfolios. My responsibilities as Lead included:
Defining “quality” and elevating design craft and execution
Connecting the dots across all product surfaces
Mentoring designers
Filling whitespace as a product designer on ambiguous, high-impact programs
Driving and defining executable strategies to improve core features and creating new business use cases
Asana
IC Lead, Essentials Pillar
2023
IC Lead, Align + Coordinate Areas
2023
Staff Product Designer
2021-2023
As the principal designer (IC Design Lead) for Asana’s NYC-based product areas, Align and Coordinate, I worked with 7 squads to raise the quality and consistency bar. I was later promoted to lead all program teams under the Essentials pillar, covering features from Tasks and Projects to Workflow and Pay products. Prior to becoming IC Lead, I designed for core experience teams like Search, Goals, and Portfolios. My responsibilities as Lead included:
Defining “quality” and elevating design craft and execution
Connecting the dots across all product surfaces
Mentoring designers
Filling whitespace as a product designer on ambiguous, high-impact programs
Driving and defining executable strategies to improve core features and creating new business use cases
Lyft
Staff Designer
2020–2021
Product Designer
2018–2020
On the Trip Experience team, I designed across high-impact areas in Lyft's core products, like:
Designing driver-rider communication tools, boosting long-term retention
Enhancing driver location info while maintaining data privacy
Improving the rider feedback ecosystem for more actionable insights
Educating product managers and designers on experimentation with Data Science
Reducing rider wait times and cancellations with a flexible, scalable platform
Lyft
Staff Designer
2020–2021
Product Designer
2018–2020
On the Trip Experience team, I designed across high-impact areas in Lyft's core products, like:
Designing driver-rider communication tools, boosting long-term retention
Enhancing driver location info while maintaining data privacy
Improving the rider feedback ecosystem for more actionable insights
Educating product managers and designers on experimentation with Data Science
Reducing rider wait times and cancellations with a flexible, scalable platform
Lyft
Staff Designer
2020–2021
Product Designer
2018–2020
On the Trip Experience team, I designed across high-impact areas in Lyft's core products, like:
Designing driver-rider communication tools, boosting long-term retention
Enhancing driver location info while maintaining data privacy
Improving the rider feedback ecosystem for more actionable insights
Educating product managers and designers on experimentation with Data Science
Reducing rider wait times and cancellations with a flexible, scalable platform
BuzzFeed
Senior Product Designer
2015-2018
As lead product designer for Tasty, I helped define, design, and build cross-platform (and connected device) products from 0-1, monetizing the popular social-first brand.
Prior to my work on Tasty, I also worked on a design system for the BuzzFeed News App and designed and prototyped fun and engaging features like quizzes for the core BuzzFeed app on iOS and Android.
BuzzFeed
Senior Product Designer
2015-2018
As lead product designer for Tasty, I helped define, design, and build cross-platform (and connected device) products from 0-1, monetizing the popular social-first brand.
Prior to my work on Tasty, I also worked on a design system for the BuzzFeed News App and designed and prototyped fun and engaging features like quizzes for the core BuzzFeed app on iOS and Android.
BuzzFeed
Senior Product Designer
2015-2018
As lead product designer for Tasty, I helped define, design, and build cross-platform (and connected device) products from 0-1, monetizing the popular social-first brand.
Prior to my work on Tasty, I also worked on a design system for the BuzzFeed News App and designed and prototyped fun and engaging features like quizzes for the core BuzzFeed app on iOS and Android.
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
BFA, Communication Design
2004–2008
Graduated with University and College Honors. Design Merit Award for work in Communication design, 2008.
Carnegie Mellon University
BFA, Communication Design
2004–2008
Graduated with University and College Honors. Design Merit Award for work in Communication design, 2008.
Carnegie Mellon University
BFA, Communication Design
2004–2008
Graduated with University and College Honors. Design Merit Award for work in Communication design, 2008.
Skills
ux
ui
design strategy
a11y
experimentation
writing
SaaS
mentorship
prototyping
usability testing
ux research
collaborative leadership
figma
cross-platform design
css
iOS
Android
Caitlin Osbahr, product designer
Caitlin Osbahr, product designer
Caitlin Osbahr, product designer