Meta

Navigating the Cross-Meta Support Ecosystem

Role

Principal Product Designer

Outcome

Delivered a 7% increase in resolution rates and a 14% reduction in total resolution time for high-value advertisers

As a Principal Designer, I led the strategic design for a support ecosystem serving 3 billion users and 200 million businesses across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. I operated as the senior design voice in a three-continent, async-first team (London, SF, Singapore), translating high-level business ambiguity into a unified strategy.

UI for internal (agent-facing) support workflow
UI for internal (agent-facing) support workflow

The Challenge: Fragmented Complexity

Meta's support infrastructure was a collection of fragmented tools that struggled to identify and prioritize high-revenue cases, resulting in significant revenue friction. My task was to de-risk the roadmap by moving the organization from a feature mindset to a systems mindset.

Mapping the support flow
Mapping the support flow

The Strategy: Revenue-Driven Prioritization

I led the Advertiser Issue Prioritization initiative to ensure the largest revenue-potential cases reached the right agents first.

Data-Led Decisioning

I partnered with Data Science and Engineering to define a logic funnel — Triage, Prioritize, and Assign — that replaced 'first-come, first-served' with revenue-optimized routing.

Autopilots

To handle the massive volume of 'stale' cases (cases awaiting customer response), I designed Autopilots— configurable automations that allowed agents to focus on active resolution while the system handled manual follow-ups.

UI for Autopilot configuration
UI for Autopilot configuration

Influencing the Meta Machine

Operating at an IC6 level meant my primary artifact was often clarity rather than just pixels.

Storyboarding over Spreadsheets

I noticed deep research insights were often lost in dense spreadsheets. I proposed and directed visual storyboards to articulate user pain points, which became the primary narrative tool for roadmapping and stakeholder alignment.

Operational Rituals

I upskilled the design team in video-led communication (Loom walkthroughs) to maintain velocity across time zones and spearheaded the 'Support OS' rebranding to align the cross-functional team under a single mission.

Storyboarding the entire support process
Storyboarding the entire support process

Results

Beyond the 14% reduction in resolution time, my work was used by senior leadership in strategic readouts to CEO Mark Zuckerberg to define the future of the org.

Gaining alignment through a simple explainer diagram
Gaining alignment through a simple explainer diagram

Ed is a designer that sees the forest from the trees—he is excellent at communicating the bigger picture to foster shared understanding amongst the cross-functional team as they tackle problems.

Mat, UX Researcher

Ed has an extraordinary ability to articulate complex systems and ideas. He was a strategic partner who helped the team shape and validate the direction for our flagship projects.

Mo, Lead Software Engineer

Ed is a fantastic design partner and empathetic leader. In high-pressure, stressful environments, he is quick to turn negative energy into actionable design-thinking exercises that move the team forward.

Kelly, Product Designer