About

I’m Sean Fitzmartin, a senior product designer at Meta in Seattle, working on the buying experience across Instagram and Facebook Shops.

For nine years I’ve gravitated toward the same kind of problem: complex, high-stakes surfaces where millions of people are trying to get something done — checking out, joining a call, finding their next game. The craft I care about is making those moments feel obvious, and the discipline I care about is proving they got better.

Outside of work I take photos, get outside, and build slightly too many Legos.

Currently
Meta · Seattle
Previously
Discord · Microsoft · EA
LinkedIn
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How I Work

/01

Outcomes, not artifacts

A design isn’t done when the mockup is polished; it’s done when the metric moves. I run my work as experiments, hold myself to the results, and treat a negative readout as diagnostic data rather than a failure.

/02

Prototype the argument

Working software is more persuasive than a deck. I frame problems with Claude, build real prototypes in Cursor and Claude Code on production components, and use Figma for systems and polish.

/03

Own it end to end

The best projects I’ve shipped had no PM at the start — I wrote the brief, worked the legal reviews, and carried it through launch. Scope is something you take, not something you’re given.

Experience

2023–
Meta
Senior Product Designer, Instagram & Facebook Shops
2022–23
Discord
Senior Product Designer, Gaming
2021–22
Microsoft
Product Designer, Microsoft Teams
2018–21
Electronic Arts
Experience Designer, EA Desktop
2016–22
Lost Pistachio
Founder & Freelance Designer

Honors Bachelor of Interaction Design, Sheridan College

If you’re working on something where the details matter, I’d like to hear about it. Say hello.