Steven Giannakouros

Steven Giannakouros

Designer | Advisor

Los Angeles, CA
Powered by
About

Designer born and raised in NYC, living in Los Angeles. I have the most fun at the intersection of design, product, and brand. I've been hands-on and I've built and led teams. Now building Noemi and advising early-stage founders.

Currently

Building Noemi

Available for
Things I've done

Noemi

Building a simpler way to have a professional presence online.

Vista | Global UX & Design

Built Vista’s global UX team from scratch and led the transformation of the international sites and SMB design tools.

Netflix personalized content discovery

As a product and design lead across content, product, and engineering, I scaled the artwork testing behind Originals discovery and ran the creative experiments that drove up to 20% more viewing. Later pushed into new content types like Live and local.

Netflix | Global Design System

Led the direction of Netflix's first global design and brand system across marketing and product from brief and partner selections to driving internal alignment and rollout.

Fintech | Mint.com & Wealthfront

At Mint.com I led a talented design and creative team through the redesign of Mint's core experiences. At Wealthfront, I was the first designer among the engineers and built their first design team.

Work Background
2024 – Now

Advisor

Los Angeles, CA  |  Athens, GR
2022 – 2024

VP, Design at Magic Labs

2020 – 2022

UX & Design at Vista

2013 – 2020

Product & Brand at Netflix

Los Angeles, CA
2012 – 2013

Design at Wealthfront

Palo Alto, CA
2010 – 2012

Design at Mint (Intuit)

Mountain View, CA
2000 – 2010

Creative Director at Digital & brand agencies

New York, NY
Education

School of Visual Arts

New York, NY
Outside of work
FamilyFitnessLive musicWeird artGreeknessSun worship