Robert Ritacca

I work at the intersection of AI, interaction design, and platform architecture, building foundations that support complex products and teams.

Work experience

Intuit

Principal Product Designer, Consumer AI

Jan 2026 – Present
  • Leading TurboTax AI experiences across ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, meeting consumers where they are
  • Driving the operationalization of agentic solutions across TurboTax and the broader consumer platform including Credit Karma
  • Designing action-oriented financial workflows that turn AI into real outcomes, not just answers

Principal Product Designer | Agent Platform

May 2024 – Jan 2026
  • Led design of Intuit Intelligence, Intuit's end-to-end conversational AI platform enabling domain teams to inject agents and dynamic UI into products through a consistent, scalable, and extensible contextual capability
  • Built core agent UX foundations adopted by 150+ product teams, supporting 600+ designers and thousands of engineers
  • Defined scalable AI-native patterns for chat, documents, memory, and dynamic UI used across QuickBooks, TurboTax, Credit Karma, and Mailchimp
Augmenta

Principal Product Designer

Aug 2023 – May 2024

Led end-to-end UX for a 0 to 1 Generative AI tool enabling engineers to create constructible, code-compliant electrical raceway designs, as the sole designer supporting 30+ engineers.

  • Drove continuous product improvement through user research, testing, and iterative design — shaping workflows and building new capabilities like 4x expanded signal visibility across 3D and tabular views
  • Reduced the time-to-value metric from 14 to 5 days by streamlining generation workflows and cutting required cycles from 12 to 5 through clearer feedback and improved anomaly detection
  • Improved solution quality by reducing anomalies per output by 60% and cutting engineering intervention from 13+ to ~1 per project through better tooling, visualization, and in-product guidance
Meta

Staff Product Designer

Sep 2021 – Jul 2023

Directed and executed on design initiatives rooted in evidence across a horizontal portfolio of Recruiting Products, supporting Meta in the mission to discover, develop and hire the best talent in the world.

  • Redesigned the Job Offer tool within Meta's Applicant Tracking System, improving offer extension velocity by over 10%, compensation approval velocity by 25%, and volume of data points by 50%
  • Redesigned the Internal Mobility transfer and eligibility tool, resulting in a 58% increase in data accuracy and a 33% reduction in processing time to earn an estimated savings of 2000 hours/year of productivity
  • Led design direction for a mixed-reality initiative of 40+ people across 6 organizations, including Recruiting Products and an external XR development shop. Drove the creation of a Design Brief, overcoming challenges around hardware logistics, digital onboarding. Successfully implemented a pilot program for our target users to participate in an immersive experience within a VR environment.
Cognizant (Previously known as Devbridge)

Product Design Manager

Sep 2018 – Sep 2021

Managed the performance, career development, and utilization of a team of 4 Product Designers within the Toronto business unit. Directed all design phases across a broad portfolio of multi-product/multi-phase delivery engagements worth $25m over 4 years.

  • Led design for mySCP, a cross-platform healthcare application suite used by 8,000+ clinicians across desktop, iOS, and Android
  • Led design for multiple CIBC banking products, including First Caribbean and Smart Banking for Business, spanning desktop, iOS, and Android

Senior Product Designer

Sep 2017 – Sep 2018
Instacart (Previously known as Unata)

Senior Product Designer

Jan 2017 – Sep 2017
AdParlor

Senior Product Designer

Dec 2015 – Jan 2017

Product Designer

Dec 2013 – Dec 2015