Maya Okafor.
Head of Product Design at Meridian Health
Primary Role
Design Leadership
Experience
9+ years
Late Career
Open To
Full-time, Advising
Desired Compensation
$180,000–$220,000
Where they work
About
I'm a product design leader with 12 years of experience building design systems and shipping consumer products at scale. I've led design for teams of up to 18 people across fintech, health, and edtech. I care deeply about accessibility, craft, and creating environments where designers do their best work. Before design, I studied architecture — which still shapes how I think about structure, systems, and the relationship between form and function.
Last updated
April 28, 2026
Availability
Available to start
Immediately
Remote preference
Remote only
Preferred Company Size
Seed
11–50 employees
Early
51–200 employees
Mid
201–500 employees
Skills & Tools
Industries
Featured Work
Built Meridian's end-to-end design system from scratch, reducing design-to-dev handoff time by 60% across 6 product teams.
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Led a complete onboarding redesign for a telehealth platform, increasing 30-day retention from 41% to 67%.
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Directed a full WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility audit and remediation effort affecting 3 million users.
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Beyond the Work
Fun facts
I give a talk every year at a local design school about why every designer should study a physical craft. Mine is ceramics. I also once accidentally designed a billboard that ended up in a Drake music video.
Most proud of
Hiring and mentoring 11 designers who have all since gone on to senior and lead roles at companies like Stripe, Figma, and Airbnb.
Pets
One very opinionated tabby cat named Pantone.
Recently read
The Design of Everyday Things (re-reading it for the fourth time — it keeps hitting differently), and Abolish Silicon Valley by Wendy Liu.
Instruments
Classical piano — badly, but enthusiastically.
Hobbies
Ceramics, hiking, obsessively organizing my Figma component library on weekends.
Languages spoken
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