Caleb Stacy

Senior content designer

calebstacy@gmail.comcalebstacy.com Richmond, VirginiaLocal + remote

Senior content designer with 11 years across product and education. I lead work upstream of interface copy, from product strategy and language models through research, experiments, and launch. I also build measurable voice standards, terminology schemas, and checks that help writers and AI agents make reliable decisions.

Experience

Nov 2022 - May 2026

Meta

Content designer to Senior content designer · Horizon, experimentation, and AI

  • Created Meta's content-standards infrastructure. Built Verso, the first content-design agent at Meta to enforce standards deterministically, plus a lint toolkit, an 11-dimension measurement engine with voice baselines derived from shipped strings across five product surfaces, and a structured index of terminology rules and review blockers.
  • Led travel terminology across Meta Horizon OS: one vocabulary for calling, sessions, and travel across VR, mobile, and desktop. Also led the naming audit for the Meta Quest-to-Horizon OS rebrand.
  • Established Meta Horizon's first content experimentation practice and led content designers across its major product areas, representing the organization. Built workshops and working tools for writing hypotheses and tracking tests.
  • Brought content designers into agentic workflows through workshops and office hours. Taught local agent setup, then helped designers author reusable skill files and deterministic scripts for rules prose guidance could not reliably enforce.
  • Helped turn the Meta Horizon phone app from a headset utility into a repeat-use mobile product. Led content from the early journeys and an executive strategy one-pager through launch experiments. A feed test lifted 28-day retention by about 15%; a quests homepage increased daily active use by nearly 5% in its first test.
  • Defined the strategy, jobs to be done, metadata, and progressive-disclosure framework for Horizon Portals. The work earned VP alignment, shipped in Meta Horizon, and appeared in the Meta Connect 2024 keynote.
  • Replaced a 14-plus-lesson VR onboarding syllabus with just-in-time spatial education. Onboarding completion improved by nearly 30%, weekly active use by about 20%, and new-user retention by roughly 7%. The strategy and components were adopted by the Meta Quest onboarding team.
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022

Digbi Health

Lead UX writer

  • Led end-to-end product content for a precision-health startup, translating microbiome, genetic, and clinical data into personalized journeys from onboarding through behavior change.
Apr 2020 - Oct 2021

8x8

UX writer

  • Made enterprise voice, video, chat, contact-center, and phone-administration tools understandable to the business owners who had to configure them.
Jul 2015 - Jun 2020

WVU, VCU, and Army Logistics University

Professor

  • Spent five years teaching composition and poetry at WVU and VCU, then training Army officers to turn complex, high-stakes information into clear, direct language.

Methods and tools

Product strategy · Interaction language · Onboarding and education · Experiment design · Content modeling · Terminology and taxonomy · AI workflows and evals · Workshop facilitation · Figma · Python

Education

2018MFA, Poetry
Virginia Commonwealth University
2014BA, English
West Virginia University