My name is Justin Berot-Burns and I'm a product designer living in Toronto. I build scaled products for people and businesses and spend my free time thinking about climate solutions, transit systems, and housing affordability.
Meta Climate
Product Design Lead · 2022 – 2025
I was the founding designer for the climate product team at Meta, responsible for aligning strategy with company leadership. I designed and launched products across Facebook and Instagram for billions of people and 10s of millions of businesses, with focuses around climate adaptation (Facebook Crisis Response), helping communities connect around climate action, and helping people discovering millions of sustainable products.
Meta Business Messaging
Product Design Lead · 2020 -2022
I led the product design team responsible for the core business messaging experiences across Meta platforms. I helped to build the team and establish a company wide strategy to help millions of businesses grow and manage operations across our messaging products.
Facebook Commerce & Payments
Product Designer · 2017 – 2020
As a senior product designer, I designed a wide range of Facebook App commerce experiences including the scaling Marketplace and Buy and Sell Groups to more than 1 billion monthly active users, strategic investments in payments, and the launch of Facebook Shops.
Metromile
Designer · 2014 – 2017
As a designer taking on both marketing and product responsibilities, I worked to develop the visual and brand identity for Metromile as well as web and mobile app experiences.
Side projects
Minute Cryptic
I support design for Minute Cryptic, a daily cryptic crossword game and deeply engaged members community.
Grassroots Conservation Fund
I am the founder and Executive Director of Grassroots Conservation Fund, a Canadian non-profit dedicated to supporting community-led land and wildlife conservation projects.
Affordable Canada
As a personal project beginning in 2020, I created a map that aggregates disparate affordable housing data from various public and non-profit sources across Canada.