Yaprak Gultay Davison is the Head of Design at Goodnotes, an AI note-taking app that helps people write, think, and collaborate more intelligently. She leads a 30-person global team focused on scaling design quality, systems and leadership structures that help great work thrive on its own.

Before Goodnotes, she spent five years at Spotify, where she led the design team that brought podcasts and later audiobooks into Spotify’s core experience and went on to become Director of Product Design for the Personalization team, shaping how millions of users discover and connect with the content they love. Earlier in her career, she held senior design roles at Fjord and Publicis, and founded a creative studio in Istanbul.

Yaprak writes Leadership as Craft, a Substack publication and mentoring program helping design leaders grow through systems, clarity, and candor.