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Caleb Stacy

Senior Content Designer

Content Strategy · Trust & Safety · AI Tools · VR + Mobile · Experimentation


Experience

Senior Content Designer | Meta

Trust & Safety and Connections · Meta Horizon · VR + Mobile

2025–Present
  • Co-developed a just-in-time education framework that replaced intimidating legal modals with contextual guidance, increasing new-user engagement by 13% and retention by 7%
  • Built an AI-powered content design agent encoding senior expertise across 5 products—58 designers adopted it in the first month, returning an estimated 138–250+ hours of productivity
  • Simplified legal notices and moderation content in partnership with legal teams, removing text walls and aligning language across VR and mobile ahead of a critical platform milestone
  • Created an error messaging framework that reduced travel failure rates by 36–37% across mobile and VR
  • Redesigned invite and group travel flows end-to-end across VR and mobile, introducing clearer CTAs, confirmation states, and capacity notices
  • Led Content Design Flash, hosting live cross-org discussions, and ran AI adoption workshops in VS Code

Content Designer | Meta

Connections · Meta Horizon · VR + Mobile · Promoted after earning the highest performance rating

Oct 2022–2024
  • Defined the content strategy and metadata framework for the platform's cross-world navigation system, presented at the company's annual keynote and adopted as a scalable pattern across platforms and languages
  • Led content design for Portal, redesigning the discovery and travel experience and launching it at Connect 2024
  • Led content design for Core Loop on the mobile app redesign, writing flows for quests, events, and world discovery that drove a 14.5% increase in weekly retention
  • Redesigned sharing flows across 47 touchpoints, improving completion rate by 46%
  • Unified content across party and group calling experiences on VR and mobile, contributing to a 39.6% increase in active session time
  • Built the first content experimentation program across the Connections subpillar, leading 35 content designers and running cross-functional workshops
  • Named a key social feature that drove a 10.8% increase in time spent and improved discovery metrics

Lead UX Writer | Digbi Health

Oct 2021–Oct 2022
  • Translated complex microbiome science and clinical data into clear, accessible member-facing content
  • Designed end-to-end content for health journeys, helping members understand personalized recommendations rooted in gut biology and genetics

UX Writer | 8x8

Apr 2021–Oct 2021
  • Wrote content for enterprise communication products spanning voice, video, chat, and contact center
  • Collaborated with product and engineering teams to simplify complex telephony workflows for business users

Professor of Writing & Communication | Various Institutions

Army Logistics University, West Virginia University, Virginia Commonwealth University

2014–2021
  • Spent seven years designing courses and developing curriculum, teaching complex writing and communication concepts to audiences ranging from Army officers to undergraduate poetry students
  • Trained professionals to translate high-stakes, complex information into clear, straightforward language
  • Led a page-design team for a nationally recognized online literary journal, training undergraduates in HTML/CSS and ensuring content standards across publication cycles

Education

MFA, Poetry

Virginia Commonwealth University

2018

B.A., English

West Virginia University

2014