Sheba Najmi has been leading user experiences for 18 years, most recently as a Senior Manager of Product Design at LinkedIn leading two talented teams of designers responsible for the LinkedIn Profile and LinkedIn Search. In addition, Sheba is Founder and Executive Director of Code for Pakistan, a non-profit that’s driving human-centered design and development of digital public services in government as well as civic engagement amongst technologists across 90 cities in Pakistan. Sheba was a Code for America Fellow in 2012, where she led the creation of Honolulu Answers, an open source web product that has since been re-deployed in over a dozen cities around the world. Among other roles in UX & Product, Sheba was a UX Design Lead at Yahoo! for over 6 years in the early 2000s. Sheba has MS and BS degrees in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University.
