Yulia Amin
Design Manager at Meta
“I managed Marie for the entirety of her time at Meta, across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger, and she is among the most capable people I have had the privilege to lead. She has the design instinct and technical craft to build genuinely novel products from the ground up at lightning speed, as well as the organizational gravity to align a dozen teams behind her. She operated in this exceptional mode repeatedly, on multi-year efforts of serious complexity, several of which were significant enough to be publicly announced by Zuckerberg himself.
What distinguishes her beyond the work, is that she manages to be the connective tissue of the team. She is the person who brings the team together, and she does it with generosity and warmth. I recommend her without reservation; any organization is better off with her there.”
Kristy Willard
Product Marketing at Meta
“Marie is one of the strongest product designers I've worked with. We collaborated closely at Meta and she was instrumental at helping push forward product vision for a number of top priority launches for business messaging across WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram. She has strong expertise in enterprise and APIs, fantastic person to work with, and highly recommend her!”
Mike Nieman
Content Designer at Meta
“Stop scrolling. Hire Marie Lee!
She owns products end to end. Strategy, design, delivery. She makes every team around her better. If you need someone who can lead complex projects with real measurable impact, Marie is your person.
I worked with Marie for 4 years at Meta. We were a PD/CD pair on some of the most complex projects in Business Messaging. I’ve never had a more reliable, thoughtful, or driven design partner.
Marie led WhatsApp API coexistence from concept through general launch. That project now powers over $7B in enabled revenue and has onboarded 500K+ business accounts. The simplified onboarding framework she built got adopted by multiple teams across Meta. It didn’t just ship a product. It became the foundation other teams built on.
On WhatsApp Calling API and Messenger Calling, Marie ran 4 workstreams across 3 products at the same time. Messenger Calling API saw a 380% increase in call volume. Retention for user-initiated calls hit 43 to 50%, well above targets. The experience was genuinely great, and the numbers proved it.
Engineering, PM, data science. Everyone wants Marie in the room. She runs tight feedback sessions, translates technical constraints into clear design decisions, and keeps partners aligned without slowing anyone down. People trust her to lead because she earns it every time.
When AI tools started changing design workflows, Marie didn’t wait around. She picked up Claude Code and second-brain methods early and got more efficient without losing craft. That’s just how she operates.
What I respect most is that Marie cares equally about shipping on time and shipping something great. She never trades 1 for the other. Every project we worked on together launched on schedule and made things better for users.
I have nothing but respect for Marie and her dedication to her craft and her team. Whoever works with her next is lucky.”
Kimberly Callery
Watson Design Program Director, Data & AI, IBM
“Marie joined our team with her running shoes on. She jumped into Watson Assistant Actions and showed she could think through a problem, wrangle stakeholders and get to a solution in an acceptable amount of time. From this success we moved her to leading the IA Mission and she did stellar. I think Marie is strong in breaking down a problem, understanding the intertwining features and technology and being super organized.“
Cale Vardy
Head of Design, Varicent
Master Inventor, Design Director for Business Analytics, Data & AI, IBM
“Marie initially joined as an early professional, and her commitment to remain curious in the emerging technology industry has led her to becoming a key player on our team. She is a pleasure to work with, and has grown exponentially as a designer in the areas of communication, attention to detail, and leadership skills.
As a whole, Marie continues to prove not only her strong ability to think critically and create, but her tact in managing and guiding design conversations within an environment of complex stakeholders.”
Marc-James Abi-Jaoude
Design Strategist Lead for
Business Analytics, Data & AI, IBM
“It has been a wonderful learning experience working with you on the Mobile App and Watson Moments team. IBM and our design team are better because of your positive contributions to the product and culture. Keep up your "Work hard, but have fun do it" attitude.”
Jennie Heo
Design Researcher at Google;
Former colleague at IBM: Business Analytics, Data & AI
“Whenever I work with you, I am consistently reminded of how much you care and believe in the value of user research. This motivates me to want to continue working with you and to make sure that our design decisions and product roadmap is discussed with our users in mind. Ever since the beginning, you have always demonstrated a strong leadership not just for the design but with the development and offering management teams as well.”
Aparna Satoor
Design Lead at Google;
Former colleague at IBM: Business Analytics, Data & AI
“You are an amazing colleague, your dedication to craft and contributions to the team are admirable.”
