# Huyen Phan > Product Design at Chime Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/huyen Product designer with 8+ years experience in interaction & visual design, data visualization, user research and front-end development. Currently at Chime building products to help low-income members who live paycheck to paycheck achieve financial peace of mind. Previously led design for checkout experiences and contributed to the building of a more fair consumer lending product at Affirm. Enjoy working on the side with early-stage startups to bring new products to market and expedite product experimentations. ## Work Experience ### Lead Product Designer @ Chime Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Senior Product Designer @ Chime Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Product Designer @ Affirm, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States At Affirm, we build honest financial products to change the way consumer finance works. Affirm offers micro-loans at the point of purchase so that consumers can buy what they love now and pay later over time. We develop technology that allows us to offer our customers more compelling financing than traditional credit while staying true to our values by never charging hidden fees. ### First Designer @ Public Comps Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States Public Comps is a SaaS investing platform used and loved by VCs, startups and founders. ### Founding Designer @ Dough Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Ann Arbor, MI Established shared vision by building consensus on priorities leading to product design and execution. Defined design practice and drive product design with a team of full-stack engineers, product managers and user researchers. Crafted all low- and high-fidelity mockups for mobile and web applications, branding & design style guide for all visual interfaces, marketing website and materials. Coded Dough's customer-facing website using React. ### User Experience Designer @ ArborMetrix Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Ann Arbor, MI Evangelized a design system for implementation across enterprise products and Tableau-based reporting tools. Drove the effort to build a documentation site and built design patterns using React and created documentation for use by product analysts and data solutions architects. ### Graduate Student Instructor @ University of Michigan Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Ann Arbor, MI Part of the core instructional team for SI 588: Fundamentals of Human Behavior, a masters-level course that surveys basic principles of cognitive and social psychology pertinent to the design of interactive systems. ### User Experience Design Fellow @ University of Michigan Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Ann Arbor, MI Brainstormed, sketched, and created high-fidelity prototypes for academic tools such as Problem Roulette, GradeCraft and ART. Implemented designs using HTML/CSS, Javascript and D3.js for Django-powered applications. ### Product Design Fellow @ Pivotal Labs Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area Collaborated with product managers, designers, engineers and client teams to deliver two consumer-facing products for Fortune 100 companies using lean and agile software development. Guided product decisions through user research, customer development, and iterative feedback loops. Designed lo-fi and hi-fi prototypes for cross-platform experiences (web, mobile, email). ### Front-end Developer @ 琉球インタラクティブ（株） Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Coded responsive websites using HTML, CSS and Javascript and test front-end code to ensure cross-browser compatibility. Subscribed to modern workflows including automation via Grunt, BEM implementation via SASS, and version control via Git. Built reusable web components and templates for companies and marketing campaigns ### Logistics Analyst @ Luggage Forward Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Boston, MA Improved the user interface of the web-based app by interviewing users and suggesting potential improvements to be implemented by head developer. Analyzed cost structures and service success rates to maximize competitive pricing and shipping efficiency. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Economics, East Asian Studies Brown University ### Master of Science in Human Computer Interaction, Data Analytics University of Michigan School of Information ### Chinese Summer Program in Advanced Chinese Language Princeton University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/huyenttphan --- Source: https://flows.cv/huyen JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/huyen/resume.json Last updated: 2026-02-23