Colin Owens

Meta

AI/ML surfaces · Ads Manager audience expansion

Role: Lead Designer, Ads Manager

Senior designer for Ads Audience Expansion — a machine-learning workflow that surfaces optimizations across ad campaigns. Designed the ML decision-workflows themselves — how the model chose scope and method for affecting change — plus the runtime-composed surfaces displaying model output.

Authored research goals and drove product decisions from UX research and live-traffic testing, stepping in where PM coverage was thin. Translated model output into a coherent advertiser-facing product experience — designing the frame a model populates, not a fixed layout.

Contributed to shared product platform tooling used across the Ads org. Member of the design leadership team working on standards for design systems, workshop exercises, and project management.

 

Ads advice — custom configuration

Mid-flight audience expansion advice

 

High-cost warning

Audience expansion across ad sets

 

Prioritization JTBD

Ads manager

 
Colin Owens
2026