About

Open to senior IC and leadership roles

Staff conversation and content designer with 10+ years of experience, including content design and UX writing at Meta, Uber Eats and Google, focused on how AI agents behave and speak. At Meta, wrote Devmate's voice guidance and prompts, ranked Metamate outputs for model training and managed staff-level designers. Co-founded Godino (part-time), a WhatsApp AI agent, designing its prompts, graders and human review loop.

Carissa Wodehouse

Experience

Meta | Enterprise | B2B

Staff Content Designer

July 2024 - July 2026

  • Created the foundational voice-and-tone guide and wrote and revised prompts for Devmate, an AI developer assistant; turned UXR feedback about annoying enthusiasm into an exclamation-point limit. Devmate grew to 5,500 daily active users.
  • Hand-ranked hundreds of Metamate responses against established criteria and reference examples, discussed judgments with the evaluation team, corrected failures and tested new cases to inform model training.
  • Designed and scoped conversational purchasing: handed the team a complete AI assessment defining which questions the assistant should ask versus answer in the background from profile information or public sources. The team built and shipped it.
  • Led Finance pillar content across $18B in annual purchasing spend, negotiating reusable questions with Legal, Risk and Operations, and took on product design through launch. Cycles fell from four months to one, with $20M+ in annual savings. Case study
  • Standardized intake and triage across a 350+ product portfolio: set shared review and routing criteria, created examples for AI triage training, trained Operations and Content Design, and led an 893-task pilot. Case study

Content Design Manager

May 2022 - June 2024

  • Set design-system roadmap priorities and reviewed and contributed component and content patterns: 15 patterns adopted 154 times, saving 1,000+ engineering hours. A separate program of 2,000 string edits saved 800+ engineering hours.
  • Hired and managed eight designers, including staff-level designers, across the US and Singapore; partnered with directors on roadmaps, staffing and priorities. Trained the team on AI use and output verification, using conflicting model outputs to calibrate critical evaluation.
  • Oversaw a full rebuild of the Oculus Help Center by a designer on the team in Singapore, serving as team lead and main point of contact with the Help Center team.

Senior Content Designer

August 2020 - April 2022

  • Simplified payments compliance workflows, reducing handling time from 2-8 hours to 1.5 hours and charity onboarding from 28 days to 14; partnered with internationalization to launch products in 18 languages.

Additional Meta work across roles

  • Built the legal takedown tool for government requests from every country where Facebook and Instagram operate. Mapped regional and central Legal processes and aligned them on one workflow; 100% adoption globally.
  • Owned the inclusion workstream for Meta's updated voice and tone; all recommendations were adopted. Co-led the Enterprise DEI Network, presenting quarterly to C-level leadership.

Uber | Uber Eats | B2C

Senior UX Writer

May 2019 - July 2020

  • Owned content design for consumer app and web experiences serving tens of millions of users. A/B tested checkout messaging with Data Science and Product Management, increasing cart size by several percent; built localization guidelines for 43 languages. Case study

Google | Search Homepage and Small Business Ads | B2C and B2B

UX Writer (contract)

February 2018 - April 2019

  • Explained an ML call-analysis feature to small businesses; one of two UX writers on the UX section of Google's Human-Centered AI cookbook. Partnered with UXR on 13 interviews; several tested copy variants increased clicks.
  • Aligned Local Services Ads pricing language with Design, Engineering, Legal and senior executives; created consistent language for the Google Guaranteed promise, coverage and limits.

Additional Work

Godino | Product Designer & Co-founder (part-time) | 2026 - Present

  • Design conversations and model behavior for a WhatsApp AI agent that obtains formal tax invoices in Mexico from receipt photos, talking with users and with the businesses that issue invoices. 98% of requests result in an invoice. Case study
  • Write the prompts as a system: voice, hard rules (no promised outcomes or timelines, no tax advice) and a structured output. The model cannot change data, and code graders block promised timeframes and false claims of completed actions before a reply is sent.
  • Gate prompt releases on a labeled set of real production messages. Co-designed the admin review tool with Engineering: confirmed failures become regression cases, and a daily LLM judge is calibrated against human notes.

Quini | Product Designer & Co-founder (part-time) | 2026 - Present

  • Lead product design for a sports prediction-pool product that reached 15,000 active users during the World Cup; built a shared design system and run lifecycle email A/B tests. Case study

Earlier Experience

Udemy | Support Center

Content Strategist (contract)

July 2017 - January 2018

  • Owned help center content: created the UX writing style guide and knowledge-base templates.
  • Led content migration and governance across the knowledge base, support center and community in eight languages.

CIMMYT | International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

Knowledge Management Communications Officer (international diplomatic posting)

January 2014 - August 2016

  • Owned information architecture for an intranet serving 1,200 staff across 14 offices.
  • Managed a $1M archival project with technical and external partners.

Education And Tools

Lewis & Clark College | B.A., English Literature. Additional coursework in Product Management and Python.

Figma, Sketch, Claude Design, Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT and VS Code; prototype and ship product copy, prompts and HTML email with AI coding tools.

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