Will Najar
Studied at Cornell College
Worked at Instagram
Available Monday at 5:00 PM UTC
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Work Experience
Staff Product Manager
May 2024 - November 2025
Interviewer
Worked on feed relevance for Threads especially new user experience/cold start recs and app open optimizations.
Staff Product Manager
Meta (Facebook)
July 2021 - May 2024
Interviewer
Built the next generation of inputs for AR/VR using computer vision and machine learning. Launched Hands 2.0, a major improvement to hand tracking on Oculus Quest 2 with novel CV/ML techniques. Launched Interaction SDK, a library of components that makes it easy to add high quality interactions for hands and controllers to VR experiences.
Product Manager
October 2019 - July 2021
Interviewer
Built and grew large-screen (i.e. laptop) experiences for the Messenger ecosystem. Launched Messenger apps for MacOS and Windows achieving 10x growth in a year. Launched Messenger Rooms.
Senior Product Manager - Technical
Amazon
April 2017 - October 2019
Interviewer
Developed and implemented strategy to increase trust in user-generated content, especially customer reviews. Used machine learning techniques and real-time, algorithmic systems to decide which content shoppers, sellers and contributors would most want to see.
Program Manager
Microsoft
April 2015 - March 2017
Launched the HoloLens v1 product on a cross-functional, experienced team focused on product strategy and co-developing experiences with early customers. Matured the Windows mixed reality ecosystem and business model with early enterprise/government customers.
Technical Account Manager
Microsoft
July 2013 - April 2015
Strategic partner for enterprise customers in the Bay Area using Microsoft cloud services.
Will was also given offers to work at
Google
Education
Cornell College
BA, Biological Sciences
Phillips Exeter Academy
High School