# Ilwon Yoon > AI Product Design Leadership | Former Head of Product Design @Bucketplace (Ohouse), ex-Meta, ex-Google Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ilwon Product designer with 10+ years building products that enhance human relationships through technology. Most recently as Head of Product Design at Bucketplace (Korea's #1 home platform), I led the company's AI transformation — redesigning how people discover and buy for their homes, compressing an 8-day purchase journey to same-day. Previously at Meta (Instagram, Messenger) and Google. Seeking to design AI-native products where deep user understanding shapes how AI behaves. ## Work Experience ### Head of Product Design @ Bucketplace (Ohouse) Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Seoul, South Korea Led product design and AI transformation for Korea's #1 home & interior platform (30M downloads, 5M MAU). Redesigned the core purchase experience around user intent — compressing an 8-day journey into same-day discovery, built UX research infrastructure that made user-centricity a company-wide practice, and scaled a multidisciplinary design org from 20 to 45 (product design, brand, UX research, design systems, UX writing) with senior manager leadership structure. Contributed to company's first Break-Even Point in 2024. ### Product Designer on eCommerce @ Meta Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States Designed UGC-driven social commerce ecosystem across Instagram and Facebook — producer tools, seller dashboard, and buyer discovery experiences. ### Product Designer - Messenger & Instagram @ Meta Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | United States Initiated cross-org projects beyond assigned scope: conceived Add Yours (became #2 sticker on IG Stories), shipped Messenger Rooms, and led collaborative features across Messenger and IG Direct. ### Lead UX Designer @ Amaze Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale, CA Amaze VR is listed as top 3 VR video app/one of on Gear VR in 2017 and one of the top 16 used app by time in 2017( Announced in f8 2018), and got featured on Oculus Go launch in May.2018. - First and only designer at Amaze VR. Designed and shipped a VR contents app on 7 different VR platforms from scratch. - Led UX, visual design, user research and closely collaborated with executives to define and deliver an integrated product roadmap and prioritization. - Initiated and led iterative user research and work closely with product manager and engineers to validate designs which drove product decisions. - Created branding/marketing design strategy which resulted in the increased installation by 1077% on Gear VR. ### Interaction Designer @ Google Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View, California Worked as an interaction designer on a startup-like lean environment at Stream team, where we can experiment with data-informed processes for launching new social apps. ( 2 launched in beta, 1 launched publicly.) - Work closely with user researchers preparing user study to identify problems for users and finds creative ways to demonstrate product concepts by creating high fidelity screens and prototypes. - Identifies metrics and develops frameworks for agile development and prioritization of use cases to validate the value proposition - Evaluates external product testing with real external users and defines a process for collecting continual feedback that is translated into iterative product refinements and improvements. ### Design research @ Microsoft Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Redmond, WA - Designed and presented a concept project called, "inKind" which was picked by Skype, Inc., and received an offer to integrate Skype into this project. - Designed and developed a physical interactive installation, called "Thank You Duck;" an inflatable sculpture that responds to thanks tweet to encourage researchers in Microsoft Research building expressing gratitude in a playful way. Aimed to build a collaborative environment by recognizing peer to peer, the platform was installed in Microsoft Research Building for Usability testing and observing behavior change for a limited time. - Also, conducted extensive research on behavior change ## Education ### Master of Professional Studies in Interactive Telecommunication Program New York University ### Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Sculpture, Photography and Art and Technologies studies School of the Art Institute of Chicago ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ilwonyoon --- Source: https://flows.cv/ilwon JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ilwon/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13