# Christine Jun > I teach human-centered design - I also run a healthcare organization where those ideas are tested daily. Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/christinejun Christine Jun is a designer, educator, and operator working at the intersection of human-centered design and real-world execution. CJ teaches design thinking as a lecturer at the Stanford d.school and facilitates workshops and offsites for teams navigating complex people, product, and service challenges. In parallel, CJ serves as COO of Jun Surgical Medical Clinic, where she helped grow a highly regulated healthcare organization from a two-person startup into a multi-million-dollar practice. She studied at Yale University and Stanford University. ## Work Experience ### Co-Founder and COO @ Jun Surgical Jan 2023 – Present ### Lecturer @ Stanford University Jan 2022 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States Redesigning Finance: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. In 2022, 13 students embarked on a journey in the Spring to explore the following challenge: *How might we redesign financial relationships to dignify historically underrepresented entrepreneurs?* 45 individuals collaborated regularly with our Redesigning Finance students to focus on real-world systemic issues or improving the contributions that historically underrepresented entrepreneurs can make as the innovation assets and creative people they and their firms represent. The class brought in Lines of Business leaders from Apple, bankers from Silicon Valley bank, and community leaders through Community College. Learn more about the student presentations at redesigningfinance.com ### Community Systems Designer @ Stanford University Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States - Developing a digital community platform for continued engagement with Stanford d.School teaching teams - Prototyping new co-design course formats (e.g., short-form pop-outs) that explore industry-specific challenges in a shorter time frame ### Senior UX Design Manager @ Silicon Valley Bank Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 ### UX Design Manager @ Silicon Valley Bank Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Lead designer for SVB's commercial end-to-end lending experience. Focused on bringing more inclusive lending products to a larger group of entrepreneurs through digital services. ### Senior Product Designer @ Silicon Valley Bank Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 Lead designer for Lending Innovation, an initiative to build the digital lending experience and shape more relevant debt facilities for the modern-day scaling startup. ### Lead Product Designer @ Indigov Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States - first designer for the only U.S. Congress-approved cloud-based constituent communication platform - Researched, designed, tested, and quality-checked over 20 features of the main web app product - Migrated, re-ordered, and re-componetized all design assets from Sketch and InVision into Figma ### Lead User Researcher @ Stanford University Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 - Designed and led user interviews for a Department of Energy-funded program that investigates how to structure future investment vehicles for early-stage clean energy technologies. - Interviewed 20 early-stage clean tech founders to uncover insights on how investor relationships, team organization and growth trajectory, and industry sponsorship affected their company's exit outcome. ### Product Designer @ Atrium Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area - Led user research across 4 product lines - Presented customer insights at the executive-level to inform a company-wide business pivot in January 2020 - Re-designed and re-shipped the Documents product - one of the most celebrated client products - in 2 sprints ### Product Designer @ Tradecraft Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Portfolio includes: @Nova Credit - redesigning the website's B2C main user flow of the personal credit history transferring product @Ongo Science - redesigning the website's B2B program creator to increase the usability of product with existing customers @Mental Health California - creating and testing a MVP iOS app that incorporates design patterns to engage teenage users Tradecraft is a tech incubator that challenges product designers and growth marketers to accel at high growth startups through a combination of internships and mentorship from industry experts. ### Contract Negotiatior | Supply Chain and Construction @ Cypress Creek Renewables Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area - Designed new bidding processes for third-party construction and procurement services for a $100M+ pipeline of utility-scale solar farms - Identified key technical pain points of the existing design-engineer-finance-construct project path through internal stakeholder interviews; recommendations were adopted to improve the internal review process after third-party construction bids are received ### Deal Diligence | Finance @ Cypress Creek Renewables Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area - Created internal project tools that rank and forecast development risks to a solar farm’s financeability; enabled company’s largest sale (by project quantity) of over 100 assets to close and generated over $2M in assets sold - Identified key technical and legal project issues across multiple verticals in real estate, environmental and local permitting, utility and power off-take contracting; refined narratives to mitigate turbulence with external investors for active deals; prioritized development milestones within project roadmaps with internal teams ### Product Marketing Manager @ Sunverge Energy, Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, CA - Researched and developed marketing requirement documents (MRD) that addressed major potential users of Sunverge’s full line of energy software and hardware products; applied MRDs in marketing and product department discussions to align external messaging with internal product roadmap - Expanded user and buyer personas for all products by 300%; identified both consumer and business pain points through usability tests, industry expert interviews, and market research - Launched a cloud-based assets library to standardize sales materials across 2 continents; designed and published over 100 sales collateral pieces, including the primary sales decks used during all stages of customer acquisition; improved sales efficiency by reducing engagement-to-close timeframe by 75% ### Market Researcher | Global Energy Investments @ QIC Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 - Developed roadmap for investing in clean energy assets using Australia’s State of Queensland sovereign funds; this strategy was adopted by the fund's investment committee and subsequently applied to diligence 7 additional earlier stage technologies (e.g., drones, car sharing, autonomous vehicles) ### Graduate Designer @ The Stanford Global Projects Center Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Stanford University - Redesigned presentation assets for a week-long executive consulting in agile construction methods; launched all materials at a workshop in Stavanger, Norway and facilitated more effective collaboration methods between architecture and construction clients on two commercial projects ### Design Engineer @ Atelier Ten Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | New Haven, CT - Surfaced design insights for architecture clients by analyzing and incorporating environmental data into the building plans; enabled architecture firms to achieve LEED-certified buildings for high profile mission-driven clients Portfolio: Harvard and Yale University residential housing, Frick Park Community Center (Pittsburgh) ## Education ### B.S. in Environmental & Chemical Engineering Yale University ### M.S. in Civil Engineering, Sustainable Design and Construction Stanford University ### Architecture in Environmental Design and Urban Planning Tsinghua University ### Korean in Korean Studies Sogang University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/christine-jun - Portfolio: https://www.christinejun.design --- Source: https://flows.cv/christinejun JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/christinejun/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25