Asif Jaleel

AI and design.
One craft.

Head of Product Design & Research at Coupang. AI runs the cadence; design owns the decisions that require taste. Previously Wayfair, Amazon, BMO.

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Coupang

Sr Director · Head of Product Design & Research · 2023 → now

AI-driven commerce at national scale. Currently building agent mode — a conversational shopping assistant inside the storefront. A design tooling shift lifted team efficiency by roughly 80 percent.

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R.LUX iF Design Award

Sr Director · Head of Product Design & Research

R.LUX — authentic luxury beauty products with rocket delivery

Luxury beauty, branded commerce. Each brand its own shop; data-driven recommendations; 24-hour rocket delivery. Won the iF Design Award in the User Experience category.

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03

Wayfair

Director · Head of Product Design

A full-funnel replatform onto a component model. The fastest testing and iteration in the company’s history. Three pieces of work inside — brand-as-destination, interactive moodboards, predictive search.

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Lancôme on Amazon

Sr UX Design Lead · Amazon

A branded storefront inside Amazon — Lancôme’s editorial identity rendered as a shoppable mobile experience. Designed and led the end-to-end interaction, from the cover and category browse through to product detail and editorial story pages.

About

I lead by combining design taste with product and business instinct.

I’ve built design organisations to seventy-five people — a leadership bench of four directors plus a principal-level North Star group. I care about the operating model: career frameworks, hiring, and the speed-to-polish trade-offs that decide whether a team moves fast without losing quality.

Across product design, research, content, brand, design systems, and design technology. High fashion, creative agencies, fintech, ecommerce. Italy, Canada, the United States, South Korea.

Let’s talk.

asifjaleel@gmail.com

Also on LinkedIn.