Stories

Curiosity and creativity fuel Abbigail as she crafts seamless, delightful experiences. She loves teaming up with others to make every meal memorable for our diners while supporting her fellow designers. At home, she mixes things up with colorful interior design, singing her heart out and teaching the next generation of UX designers.

Aimee is a Product Design Manager, currently overseeing OpenTable’s restaurant-facing product. Before OT, she designed healthcare technology where she cut her chops on designing simple solutions for complex environments. She loves using her expertise to make restaurateurs' daily lives easier and supporting the team to do the same.

After 15 years in hospitality as a chef, restaurant manager, and business owner, Albert seamlessly transitioned his craft, creativity, and customer experience to Product Design at OpenTable, where his passion for hospitality and design converge. Otherwise he fathered, cook, bicycle, smile, skate, surf, love, climb, run, swim, travel and more.

Anneliese is a product designer whose formative years in DC’s restaurant industry—as a server, host, and line cook—shaped her approach. She later led design on high-impact products for government agencies. Now in Utah with her partner and cats, she enjoys connecting with her local community at her favorite spin studio.

Annie is a Research Operations Specialist focused on streamlining processes to help product teams conduct research more efficiently. Outside of work, she enjoys playing tennis, hosting board game nights, and trying new recipes.

Asaf is a Senior Brand Designer with 20 years of experience in print, advertising, and branding specializing in bringing creative solutions to life through typography, image making, and conceptual thinking. When he's not designing, you’ll find him experimenting with music production, enjoying movie marathons, or exploring the worlds of scents and digital art.

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Az Pishneshin is a creative with over a decade of experience working with brands like McDonald’s, Disney and more. He approaches design strategy holistically, building architecture for brands with a global reach. Outside of the day-to-day, Az enjoys photography and a good cup of coffee.

Azhar is a Design Manager with over a decade of experience in design and UX, backed by a strong arts and graphic design background. Having worked across B2B and B2C industries in the UK, Switzerland, and Italy, she’s passionate about creating meaningful user experiences, leading teams, and supporting individual growth.

Britt is a Senior Product Designer who has worked on experiences both on the consumer and restaurant side. She’s now focusing her energy back on the restaurant side within the Hospitality line of business. When not crafting seamless experiences for users, you’ll probably find Britt surfing somewhere in Hawai’i.

Chandni Thawani is a Senior Brand Designer at OpenTable, specializing in bringing the brand come to life through campaigns, events, and social media. Her standout work is showcased on Instagram, where she merges her sophisticated design style with current social trends. Prior to OpenTable, she worked at KAYAK and managed her own small business.

Cris is a former restauranteur and product designer with over 15 years in the industry working for companies such as GoDaddy and Verizon. A veteran in the B2B space, Cris aims to create harmony between humans and machines, while creating products that are accessible, inclusive, and delightful. Outside of work Cris is a volunteer for Big Brothers, an avid surfer and illustrator.

Daniel Chen is a Senior Product Designer at OpenTable with a focus on solving restaurant’s challenges in innovative and impactful ways. Based in Boulder, Colorado he spends his time outside climbing, biking and playing volleyball.

By day, Darren serves as a Principal Product Designer, building better tools that empower restaurants to deliver seamless service. By night, he's usually in the kitchen trying a new recipe. He spent 15+ years in San Francisco at companies like Inkling and UserTesting before moving back home to Hawai'i.

A motivated, outside-of-the-box thinker. Team player. Always eager to learn. Devona is a Montreal-based Senior Product Designer who is passionate about pushing boundaries to the intersection of simplicity, function and delight. Outside of work, you’ll probably find Devona punching things (boxing), building things (DIY), and exploring places on her Honda Ruckus.


Elizabeth Miller has nearly a decade of experience working for brands like Apple, Airbnb, Target, and Levi Strauss. She’s currently focused on telling OpenTable’s brand story through campaigns, events, and design systems, and she’s constantly striving to make OpenTable restaurants the stars of that show.

Emily is a Senior Product Designer at OpenTable, dedicated to addressing the unique challenges of the restaurant industry through innovative and impactful design solutions. Based in Toronto, she enjoys exploring local food scenes, walks with her dogs, and hosting dinner parties for her friends.

Erich Grois is a curious, charismatic creative who loves cross-functional collaboration. He has been working as a creative lead in the Bay Area for over a decade at places like Yelp, NerdWallet, and LivingSocial. Now, Erich works nonstop at OpenTable to lead creative efforts across marketing and product channels.

Erika McLepke is a Lead Product Designer who leverages strategic thinking and user experience expertise to create engaging and functional diner spaces. When she’s not designing, you’ll find her getting her hands dirty with pottery, knitting cozy creations, or lost in a fantasy novel.

Evie is a Lead Product Designer dedicated to transforming complex challenges into intuitive solutions that help restaurants optimize their daily operations and enhancing guest experiences. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling, mostly for the food, and dabbles in drawing and painting.

Greyson MacAlpine, lead product designer at OpenTable, leverages her entrepreneurial background as an agency owner to champion thoughtful human-centric design. She's also a certified integrative nutrition coach, enjoys writing about entrepreneurship and performance, reads a lot of sci-fi, and often explores the outdoors with her pup.

Ivan is a motion designer at OpenTable, specializing in creating captivating and dynamic projects. In addition to his motion design skills, he has extensive experience in video editing. He's passionate about bringing static visuals to life through animation and seamlessly integrating them into video projects.

Jasmine is a Product Designer at OpenTable with a deep passion for the restaurant industry. With over a decade of experience in food service, she thrives on creating products tailored for restaurants. Based in Toronto, you can find her trying to avoid Canada’s winter.

A problem solver in mind, a creative at heart. Focused on the root of a challenge Jason looks to translate business goals in to experiences that best service our restaurants and diners. Outside OpenTable you can find Jason at gigs blasting his ears with metal and exploring new restaurants ordering a bit of everything!

Julia Borghini has dedicated her career to helping companies define, redefine, and grow their brands—overseeing everything from campaigns to product development at places like Landor and PayPal. Now at OpenTable, Julia helps our brand be the best it’s ever been.

I’m Komal, a Senior Product Designer on the Restaurant Platform team, based in India. I bring my B2B SaaS experience into crafting thoughtful, human-centric designs. While I suck at math, there’s one equation I always get right: Beautiful UI + Great Experience + User Delight = A timeless product (one that makes life a little easier—even if it’s just by a pixel a day).

Lauren is a product designer, helping restaurants build loyalty with their guests through intuitive and impactful experiences. With a background in logistics, she enjoys tackling complex problems and designing thoughtful solutions. When not working, she can be found outdoors or pursuing creative projects like photography and woodworking.

Lily Samimi brings over a decade of experience leading UX in B2B companies, like GE and Cisco. At OpenTable, she champions product design for restaurant-facing products, delivering the very best solutions for restaurants so they can focus on delivering exceptional hospitality. Outside of work, Lily is always dreaming about where to travel to and eat next.

Liz is a London based Senior Product Designer that prides in creating meaningful and intuitive experiences for the OpenTable diner. With a background in luxury fashion & beauty, hers has not been the traditional path of a designer. She is particularly passionate about promoting gender diversity within the design community and traveling at any and every opportunity she gets.

With over 10 years of experience, Lyudmyla specializes in solving business problems through design. She is currently working on growing OpenTable's dining network through design solutions that positively impact diners and the business. Based in London, she enjoys exploring the outdoors on long hikes with her dog, Winnie.

Mana is a product designer, crafting solutions that empower restaurants to deliver great hospitality experiences. Based in Vancouver, BC, she spends her free time creating ceramic sculptures, figure painting, and silversmithing—always blending creativity into both work and play.

As a Product Designer, Mel is dedicated to creating thoughtful, research-driven solutions that align with key goals and deliver value. Outside of work, she finds inspiration in block printing, visiting museums, and exploring the outdoors.

Nikita Mor is a product designer who enjoys creating user experiences that are functional, usable, reliable, and delightful. Her filmmaking background inspires her to integrate compelling storytelling into her design practice. Outside of work, she loves exploring the outdoors, making art, and indulging in fantasy/sci-fi books and films.

Nina Qi is a product designer with a background in B2B logistics and eCommerce. With a passion for solving complex problems, she likes to blend creativity with strategic thinking. When she’s not working, you can find her cafe hopping, dabbling in film photography, and indulging in culinary adventures around the globe.

Rita Poutivskaia is a Brand Designer specializing in creative solutions for OpenTable’s email & social channels along with seasonal campaigns. Rita has a passion for print design & watercolor painting fueled by her travel obsession, local or otherwise.

Samantha believes that innovative restaurant tech begins with a robust understanding of users and their ever-evolving needs. Currently at OpenTable, and previously at Shopify, her career has been dedicated to research, operations, and user-centric design. Off hours, you can find her painting and enjoying beautiful Vancouver Island.

Sarah is the Project Manager on the Brand Studio team who loves managing creative and marketing teams through efficient and impactful projects. She’s worked as at a vegan chicken start up, Daring Foods and a Healthcare tech company, Mercury Healthcare. She loves finding improvements to processes and helping people reach their project goals.

As a Product Designer, Sim thrives on diving into user challenges, uncovering core issues, and crafting solutions and has been doing so at OpenTable for almost ten years. When not doing this, he can be found baking cakes (once applied for The Great British Bake Off but didn’t get picked), or working out which foods taste best during ultra running races.

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Valeriia is a product designer in the OT growth team at a dining network. With a background in agency work and design systems, she excels at creating intuitive UIs and solving design puzzles. Based in London, she enjoys Sunday coffee, hiking, and curating Pinterest outfits.

Wilson is a Lead Product Designer at OpenTable, focusing on design systems. He has extensive experience in developing design systems from scratch and implementing them in complete application overhauls, reaching over 500 million users during his tenure at McAfee.

Yuebo is a part of the product design leadership team at OpenTable, focusing on areas of monetization, personalization, and diner engagement.