# Derek Chen > Design Leader | Design Mentor Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/derekchen1 ## Work Experience ### Design Mentor @ adplist.org Jan 2022 – Present Being a mentor continues to be one of my greatest source of fulfillment. I love connecting with people of all ages, nationalities, and job functions. In the past two years, I've mentored 70+ designers, product managers, and engineers who were interested in building a career in UX. If you want to learn more about my impact or chat about design, don't hesitate to reach out! ### Senior Product Design Manager, HPE GreenLake Platform @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Jose, California, United States Leading an amazing organization to accelerate HPE's transformation to become a leading hybrid cloud provider and scale from zero to a billion-dollar platform in just 3 years. - Increased our team design output by 300% year-over-year through tight coordination, close collaboration, and deep empathy for our colleagues in Product, Engineering, and Program Management. - Nurtured an amazing community of 40+ product designers, UX researchers, design system specialists, and UX writers to collaborate on delivering innovative solutions and a consistent user experience. - Secured buy-ins from VPs, SVPs, CPO, and GM to orchestrate our transition to Lean UX and dual-track agile methodologies to iteratively deliver product improvements to our customers and accelerate velocity. - Formed partnerships with Product Management to accelerate product discovery and development across 10 product teams where Product and Design continuous discuss and experiment with new ideas. ### Product Design Manager, HPE GreenLake Platform @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Jose, California, United States - Empowered our design team to deliver 200+ platform features to customers by planning, managing, and improving our execution across 10 quarterly releases. - Organized quarterly audits to identify and submit 100+ bugs, feature enhancements, and new product opportunities to cultivate our innovation pipeline and ensure a more stable and error-free production experience for our customers. - Grew the product design team by 600% from 4 to 25 while leading and mentoring our team through 6 design leadership changes in 3 years. - Scaled the GreenLake Platform from 100K to 200K+ businesses and from 1M to 2M+ devices under management globally. ### Senior Product Designer, HPE GreenLake Platform @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California, United States - Shipped 50+ core platform services that unified common services like user onboarding, authentication, authorization, logging, notifications, service provisioning, and device and subscriptions management. - Supported our SVP to win over the CEO to make 9-digit investment to help our organization scale from 50 to 1000 in GreenLake as the next generation cloud platform with a fully-featured prototype and live demo that showcased the value of a fully integrated product ecosystem. - Architected the HPE GreenLake Platform user experience and helped scale the platform from zero to 100K+ businesses with 1M+ devices under management globally. ### Product Design Lead @ Kloudless, a Netskope company Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, CA - Helped drive 40% ARR growth year-over-year from 2018 to 2020 by leading initiatives in web and product design as well as assisting with product development, customer research, brand strategy, and content strategy. - Increased customer onboarding completion rate by 56% by addressing usability issues in the onboarding journey and simplifying the process with guided tutorials. - Boosted time-on-site by 135% by collaborating with Marketing to redesign the information hierarchy of our website to highlight our case studies, white papers, and documentations that highlight our value proposition. - Expanded our product portfolio beyond APIs and TAM by 15% by researching, testing, and delivering our first GUI product that lets users set up their calendar availability and enable select users to schedule meetings asynchronously. ### Product Design Consultant @ Tradecraft Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, CA ### Product Designer @ RushDeck Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, CA ### Product Designer @ À La Carte Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, CA ### Systems Engineer @ Pacific Gas and Electric Company Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, CA ### Performance Engineering and Testing Intern @ Pacific Gas and Electric Company Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | San Ramon, CA ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Statistics University of California, Davis Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Managerial Economics University of California, Davis Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dhchen - Portfolio: https://derekhchen.webflow.io/ - Portfolio: https://adplist.org/mentors/derek-chen --- Source: https://flows.cv/derekchen1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/derekchen1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25