# Benedict Chu > Product Designer Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/benedictchu Product Designer, Art Director and Strategist with 10+ years' experience owning the end-to-end UX and UI product design process to improve the real-world efficacy of products at companies such as LinkedIn and Yahoo. Strategic leader who partners cross functionally with team leaders and key stakeholders to translate user goals into elegant, memorable design solutions. Innovative thought leader who contributes to high-level strategic near-term/long-term decision-making to drive product vision and scalability. Core Competencies: User Experience (UX) • User Interface (UI) • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) • Interaction Design • Product Design • Strategy • Responsive Design • Native App Design • User Research • Design Systems • Prototyping • Wireframing • Information Architecture • Storyboarding • Advertising • Graphic Design • Print • Agile Project Management • Scrum • WCAG Accessibility • HTML • CSS • Strategic Planning • Process Optimization Tools: Figma • Sketch • Principle • Origami • Protopie • Invision • Adobe CC • Photoshop • Illustrator • Keynote • Powerpoint • Excel • Word • Microsoft Office • Google Suite • Jira ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer @ Payactiv Jan 2024 – Present | United States ### Principal Product Designer @ Yahoo Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Sunnyvale / Hybrid Search lead in facilitating UX design innovation for conversational UI/Gen AI. Drove product strategy for designing and developing interaction model/library components for Search Graphs that contributed to a combined 33% increase of retention & 35% reduction in engineering redundancy on modernized web initiatives. Lead designer in revamping Search Design System and paved the strategy of introducing tokens shared across design and engineering. Prototyped and led A/B testing of various models of increasing user engagement with Search Input Box on mobile that resulted in 23% increase in additional searches in a session. In an Local Intent Squad Team, consisting of design/product & engineering, led the redesign of mobile web user journey of “nearby places” that resulted in 133% increase in DAUs’. ### Principal Product Designer @ Verizon Media Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Sunnyvale, California, United States Led Elections, Olympics, and major sport tentpoles. Lead designer on design system for search Also collaborated with XFN teams in growing search traffic and user retention. ### Senior Product Designer @ Oath Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Sunnyvale, California, United States Lead product designer in an agile incubation team focused on experimenting and building product experiences leveraging emerging technology in AI Conversation. Translated ambiguity into intuitive experiences by considering every faucet of the user journey and demonstration by prototyping. Collaborated with product and engineering in launching a “weather/news chat bot” on Facebooks’ platform that responded with fun/engaging custom weather animations. ### Senior Product Designer @ LinkedIn Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View Lead product designer for Premium Member Insights on Jobs Vertical. Collaborated with data scientist in building features powered by ML that elevated job seekers candidacy for their next career move. Skillfully balanced strategy, user research, cross functional interaction & visual design that resulted in 14% increase in applying for a job position. On the Marketing/Branding of LinkedIn Sales Navigator, spearheaded a microsite initiative to host customer success stories across the globe. Lead designer and production of photography that required coordination with over 20 photographers ### Product Designer @ Yahoo Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | sunnyvale Lead designer for personalized news feed on Home Page and Media Properties. Collaborated with science team & engineers in evolving personalization news feed powered by ML. Defined frameworks for personalization, content diversity, statefulness, and simplified user feedback mechanisms on the homepage. Introduced an infinite newsfeed resulting in an increase in DAUs, engagement, and ad revenue. Also worked with a small team of product designers tasked with designing a new UI, grid, information architecture, interaction patterns, and overall visual design language for the forward vision of media properties on desktop and mobile web. ### Associate Creative Director @ Acxiom Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Foster City, California, United States Client: Bing, AT&T, Home Depot, Southwest. Led a team of designers responsible for email campaigns and microsites. Webby Awards for Home Depot & Southwest Airlines ### Product / Marketing Designer at eBay @ SolutionSet Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 | Campbell, California, United States Collaborated with marketing project managers, UX designers, and engineering in creating a new framework for displaying dynamic content based on user interest on homepage. In conjunction, art directed homepage billboard mechandise placements that required coordination with merch team and studio photographer. ### Creative Director @ Comunic8 Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Sr. Art Director @ G2 Direct & Digital Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 Client: Adobe Systems Designed integrated marketing campaigns which included emails, banners, and microsites. Responsible for leading the design team in proposing a new agency offering of immersive advertising banners and microsites. ### Art Director @ Digital Impact Jan 2001 – Jan 2006 Clients: HP, Comcast, Kaiser, Intel, Sun, CountryWide Mortgage, Nextel, Royal Carribean, Sony, GAP, William-Sonoma, Wells Fargo, and Palm. Designed integrated marketing campaigns which included emails, banners, and microsites. Webby Awards for Kaiser Thrive Campaign ### Product Quality Assurance Specialist @ Adobe Jan 1999 – Jan 2000 | San Jose, California, United States Support Product Designer / Eng on launch of Imageready 3.0 ### Research Associate III @ Roche Jan 1990 – Jan 1999 | Palo Alto, California, United States Research/ lab studies for clinical trials on Rheumatoid Arthritus .Affymetrix DNA / gene targeting/ bioinformatics ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Molecular Biology University of California, Santa Cruz ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/benedictchu --- Source: https://flows.cv/benedictchu JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/benedictchu/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13