# Racine Davis

> Racine Davis is a product designer with 12+ years of experience crafting user-centric digital experiences. Currently a product designer at Google. Founder & CEO of Whal, a fintech startup building intelligent investment tools for retail investors. Previously designer at Yahoo, Interaction Designer at Google and Product Designer at Uber. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Website: https://racinedavis.com/
Email: racine@racinedavis.com
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/racinedavis
Read.cv: https://read.cv/racine

## Summary

Racine Davis is a generalist product designer who transforms complex ideas into intuitive and delightful digital experiences. Racine believes UX design is the key to a balanced relationship between technological advancement and the well-being of individuals and societies.

## Experience

- **Google — Product Designer** (2025 – Present)
- **Yahoo — Product Designer** (2024 – 2025)
- **Whal — CEO & Founder** (Feb 2023 – Feb 2024): Founded Whal (https://whal.co), a fintech startup, leading a team building intelligent investing tools that empower retail investors.
- **Google — Interaction Designer, Google App** (Sept 2019 – Dec 2023): Led personalization and growth UX; collaborated with the Shopping team to bring shopping experiences to the Google app (Discover, Search, Follow Topic).
- **Uber — Product Designer** (Dec 2016 – Sept 2019): Designed safety experiences for riders and drivers, including the Uber Safety Toolkit.
- **EY — Designer** (Mar 2015 – Dec 2016): Supported large enterprise financial-services clients.

## Speaking

- Silicon Valley Leadership Group Annual Summit — AI Founder Panelist
- Google UneXt Roundtable — Design Panelist
- Uber Design Open House — Product Design Panelist

## Skills

Product design, UX design, interaction design, prototyping (ProtoPie), fintech, personalization & growth design, safety design, AI product design.

## Pages

- [Home / Portfolio](https://racinedavis.com/): selected work at Whal, Google and Uber, bio, experience and speaking.