Marlena Morshead

“Marlena is a smart, thoughtful and passionate designer. She is guided by strong design principles in pursuit of clarity, consistency and quality. She sees the bigger picture (even while working in the weeds) and is strong both tactically and theoretically, moving back and forth between execution and conceptualization with ease.”

“She manages to strike a balance between inclusively taking feedback from the team and representing a strong design POV. This behavior has established her as a respected leader on the team—open to incorporating signal/perspectives in the design, but also influencing us towards her recommended solution.”

“I think Marlena is a natural leader, and if set up in the right place, she’s able to rally any team around her ideas. Her communication skills are impeccable, and her opinion is very well thought out and customer focused.”

“Marlena has again been an amazing partner to me and the team last half. I am always in awe of how much she supports and her productivity. I’ve said it multiple times, but Marlena is the best designer I’ve worked with.”

“I also loved that very frequently someone else on the product team would ask “Have we considered....?” and Marlena would 90% of the time have an alternately-explored design board in Figma she could just send over with a “yep!” ”

“Marlena is able to influence other teams and their designs by strategically using user data and research to back up her proposals, which goes a long way in driving credibility for herself as a designer and in representing our team. I’ve seen her do this firsthand with the Instagram, WhatsApp and Marketplace teams.”

“Marlena has served as a phenomenal mentor over the course of Q2, especially through her great work organizing the career growth workshop and dedicated 1:1s with me. She has been instrumental in helping me map out my career growth as a designer, both within the scope of Facebook and beyond.”

“Marlena has the super power of taking my words/strategy and beautifully/concretely and strategically putting it on a deck and making it super easy for everyone to understand. ”

“Apart from her support in evangelizing our big bets, her ability to churn out designs quickly has unblocked eng in more occasions than one. She has consistently shown that she is capable of handling a breadth of scope, without dropping the ball on execution and delivery. Her ability to take critical feedback objectively has made it such a delight to work with her- knowing that there is a safe space to speak one’s mind and see it reflected in the designs.”

“Marlena is a strong product designer who designs from first principles. She has an uncanny ability to be able to visually communicate our strategy discussions, which makes it easy for XFN to understand and internalize the next leap forward in an efficient manner.”