Melanie Araujo

Founder & Leadership Development Coach

Part-time, self-employed · Remote, NL/EU-based

• Lead an independent leadership development and coaching practice supporting professionals and leaders through leadership growth, career transitions, and organizational change.
• Design and deliver structured coaching engagements and leadership development programs grounded in behavioral science and human-centered design.

Leadership Coach

Part-time · Remote, US-based

• Coached more than 40 professionals across individual-contributor, manager, and executive levels on leadership effectiveness, executive presence, and organizational dynamics.
• Designed and launched a leadership coaching program for women leaders across North America, Europe, and Africa.
• Facilitated leadership development workshops for professionals at Google, Meta, and Salesforce, supporting career transitions and team effectiveness.

Design Program Manager

Full-time, contract · San Francisco, CA, USA

• Managed operations, onboarding, and internal communications for a 40-person design organization, redesigning workflows and documentation to strengthen cross-functional collaboration.
• Improved new-hire ramp-up time and team effectiveness through streamlined onboarding processes.

Product Designer

Full-time · Menlo Park, CA, USA

• Partnered with Trust & Safety, Operations, Policy, and Engineering teams to design and scale content-moderation systems across 24 locations and 100+ languages, balancing user needs, operational effectiveness, and regulatory compliance.
• Mentored early-career designers through the Women of Facebook Design program and led internal community-building initiatives.

Senior Product Designer

Full-time · San Francisco, CA, USA

• Led multi-platform product redesigns across consumer healthcare products, contributing to 76% business growth and $194.9M in annual recurring revenue; established design-operations initiatives that improved design-to-engineering workflows.

Senior Product Designer

Full-time · San Francisco, CA, USA

• Partnered with YouTube’s Strategic Partnerships team to deliver a sales-enablement catalog used across 35 international markets; designed digital products for early-stage startups.

Founder & Design Mentor

Self-employed · San Francisco, CA, USA

• Founded and led a mentorship and leadership-development program for underrepresented designers in technology, supporting mentees through one-on-one mentoring and skills-based workshops.
• Placed mentees into roles at Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta, among other organizations.

Lead Interaction Designer

Full-time · Sunnyvale, CA, USA

• Led user research initiatives informing product strategy for flagship mobile apps; designed and facilitated monthly learning-and-development sessions for design, product management, and engineering teams.

Product & Market Researcher

Full-time · Berkeley, CA, USA

• Led more than 50 market-research studies for global clients including Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble. Directed distributed research teams across the United States, Mexico, and Japan to deliver consumer insights for multinational clients.