# Adele Zixuan Wang > AI-Native Product Builder | AI, Fintech, B2B2C Products | UW 26’ | CCA 21’ Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/adele I’m a Product Manager with a background in architecture and UX design, experienced in building products that sit at the intersection of software, AI, and real-world operations. I’ve worked across AI platforms, fintech onboarding systems, and hardware-enabled products, taking ownership of problem framing, MVP definition, prioritization, and cross-functional execution. My strength lies in navigating ambiguity, aligning technical and business constraints, and turning complex systems into shippable products. I’m particularly interested in PM roles that involve platform thinking, multi-stakeholder workflows, or regulated environments—where thoughtful trade-offs, trust, and long-term impact matter more than surface-level features. ## Work Experience ### Product Designer | Wearable Medical Device (Product Owner) @ TwoInchPulse Jan 2023 – Present Founded and led development of a low-cost wearable device for CPR training, focused on accurately measuring compression depth and force to improve cardiac arrest outcomes. Product ownership: Defined problem scope, success criteria, and feasibility boundaries for a medical hardware product under academic and clinical constraints. Cross-domain decision making: Independently designed hardware architecture, circuit layout, and sensing pipeline; validated force accuracy (~2-inch / 125 lbs) through calibration and testing. Expert-driven product validation: Proactively engaged medical school faculty and clinicians (via cold outreach) to validate assumptions, define product success metrics, and guide technical trade-offs. User research & system thinking: Conducted user interviews and analyzed existing CPR training systems to inform interaction design and feedback mechanisms. Status: First-generation prototype entered user testing and advanced to screening round of the Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge. ### Product & Technical Co-Lead — Connected Micro Pantry Platform @ Urban Freight Lab Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | Seattle, WA Led the end-to-end development and launch of PantryLink, a cloud-based IoT platform supporting 335+ micro-pantries across Washington State, enabling real-time visibility and community-driven donation coordination. Defined product strategy, system architecture, and data flow for a distributed IoT system integrating hardware sensors (weight, door, temperature) with a web-based dashboard. Designed the cloud-based backend using Azure Functions and Cosmos DB to support scalable, real-time data processing across donations, wishlist, messaging, and telemetry streams. Drove cross-functional execution across frontend, backend, and hardware teams under an aggressive delivery timeline. Established frontend–backend data contracts and normalization layers to ensure system reliability despite evolving backend schemas and hardware constraints. Owned key product decisions around data governance and platform safety, including moderation strategy for user-generated content (donations, messages) and trade-offs between openness and control in a community-driven system. Leveraged AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, GPT) to accelerate full-stack implementation, enabling a non-CS team to successfully deliver a production-ready system with cloud deployment and monitoring. ### Product Intern | Product Incubation (AI Property Ops SaaS) @ C-STAR Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 Owned MVP definition and product execution for a B2B2C AI-assisted property operations platform in a 0→1 environment, working closely with founder and engineering teams to translate ambiguous requirements into structured product decisions. Product logic & system design: Transformed AI-generated concepts into production-ready product specifications, defining 20+ edge, empty, and failure states to resolve ~90% of critical workflow blockers and ensure system reliability. Workflow & platform architecture: Designed multi-role workflows across property managers and vendors, covering assignment → scheduling → completion, and integrating AI-assisted decision support and communication flows. AI product strategy: Defined the role of AI in project creation and vendor assignment, evolving the system from UI-driven inputs toward AI-assisted diagnostics and structured decision-making. Cross-functional execution: Led weekly product iteration cycles with founder and engineers, aligning on product direction, resolving edge cases, and delivering complete happy paths with ~75% edge-case coverage. Platform foundations: Established early product principles and system patterns to support scalability and future internal tooling. ### UX Design Intern | Growth (Financial AI) @ WeFIRE Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 Conducted 50+ user interviews and usability tests to identify trust and consent barriers in AI-driven financial workflows. Delivered 3 trust-building UI interventions that reduced bank-linking drop-off by 24% and increased demo satisfaction by 13%. Product impact: Insights directly informed fallback logic for >120s AI delays and helped scope MVP boundaries for responsible AI positioning. ### Product Design Intern | Growth & Retention (FinTech) @ Advance Intelligence Group Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 Led UX design for a 0→1 Express KYC onboarding flow under strict compliance and backend constraints. Product logic & feasibility shaping: Co-defined onboarding scope by balancing regulatory requirements, system dependencies, and user friction; mapped validation rules and 10+ edge cases impacting backend complexity. Cross-functional negotiation: Worked closely with compliance and engineering teams to iterate on form logic, field dependencies, and progressive disclosure strategies. Outcome: Contributed to a simplified onboarding experience that launched with significantly faster completion and improved approval outcomes. This experience marked my first exposure to high-constraint product environments and highlighted the importance of backend awareness in product decision-making. ### Interaction Artist | Vio(Lens) @ Unknown Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 Designed an immersive experience space where the interaction between people and light becomes part of this art installation. From the outside, the changing lights inside the box present a tranquil effect, evoking the experiencer's inner desire for a sense of security. The conflict between the internal and external perspectives pushes the experiencer to the edge of safety. Explore the boundaries of everyone's inner sense of security. Explored the integration of interaction design and interior design. Experimented with light as a design medium, expanding my approach beyond traditional materials in spatial and interactive experiences. This work was invited to exhibit at Exhibition Immerse by Pioneer Art Lab – Jiazazhi Magazine, recognizing the work’s innovation in spatial and interactive experiences. ### Interior Architect | Large-Scale Real Estate Projects @ ECE Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 Specialized in large-scale commercial projects across concept design, schematic design, and delivery phases, contributing to multiple winning tenders and opened developments. This experience shaped my ownership mindset, systems thinking, and comfort operating in long-cycle, high-stake projects—foundations that later translated naturally into product management. Representative projects include Alibaba Nanjing Campus, Chongqing Longfor, Lanzhou Global Harbor, Shanghai Xijiao Bailian, Chengdu Xuhui, and multiple urban commercial complexes. ### Student Incubator | Fabrication @ Autodesk Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 The Autodesk Technology Centers catalyze new possibilities for design and make by connecting data-enabled fabrication workshops with a global network of innovation leaders. Develop material prototypes using hybrid processes, manual shop work and digital fabrication. Using particularly 3D printing technique to test printing on fabric and shape it with material which printed on it and the tension fabric has to make a lamp cover prototype. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Technology Innovation University of Washington ### Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA in Interior Design California College of the Arts ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zixuan-wang00 --- Source: https://flows.cv/adele JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/adele/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05