# Joseph Huang > Design Leadership @ Airbnb (ex-Google, ex-Uber) Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/josephhuang Product design leader with 20+ years experience and 6 patents. Building teams that scale. My work has been featured in the App Store numerous times. 2 of my previous startups were acquired, one by Apple and the other by Microsoft. Broad experience ranging from consumer apps and games to enterprise tools across mobile, web, and desktop surfaces. My mission is to: - Make products that empower, enrich, and delight people. - Build and develop design teams. - Learn, grow, and give back. ## Work Experience ### Sr. Design Manager, AI Experience @ Airbnb Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States AI powered experiences ### Head Of Design @ GamePlanner.AI Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 GenAI. Acquired by Airbnb. ### UX Design Manager @ Google Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 Led Accessibility, Design Systems, and Growth UX teams for Google Workspace. ### Design Mentor @ Andreessen Horowitz Jan 2014 – Jan 2021 Mentor for the Generation Design (Gen.D) program, providing 1:1 coaching to college design students on design skills, problem solving, tools, portfolios, and interviews. Previous mentees were hired at Facebook, Robinhood, The New York Times, Jawbone, and Zynga. ### Product Design Manager @ Uber Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 Led a talented team of designers making magic. ### Principal Designer @ Microsoft Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area Led design for a chatbot builder tool powered by the Bing knowledge graph. Reported directly to the GM of the AI & Research group. ### VP of Product @ Wand Labs (Acquired by Microsoft) Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Responsible for product strategy, design, and user research. Worked directly with Engineers to build novel messaging technology. Shipped Wand Messaging iOS app. ### Director of Mobile Product Design @ Imgur Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area Head of mobile team. Responsible for product management and UI/UX design. Designed and shipped Imgur mobile apps in 9 months. Featured in the App Store. ### Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer @ Throwdown Labs Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area Created Throwdown, a fun mobile app that enabled users to challenge friends to a 30 second fitness challenge. Users recorded videos of themselves completing the challenge and the app merged the videos together to produce a side-by-side video that they could share with friends on social media. ### Founding Designer @ Concept.io (Acquired by Apple) Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Created Swell Radio, a machine learning powered podcast discovery app. It was named one of TIME's 50 Best iPhone Apps of 2013 and featured in the App Store. Responsible for Product Management, Interaction Design and Visual Design. Helped raise $5.4M Series A funding with angel investor Jason Calacanis citing 'stunning design and UX' as one of his reasons for participating in the round. Produced IP. The company was acquired by Apple. ### Sr. UX Designer @ Kabam Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco Bay Area Designed 'Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North', the #1 Top Grossing app in the Apple App Store in 2013, generating over $100M revenue. Helped grow company revenue more than 70%, past $180M in 2012. Featured in the App Store. ### Interaction Designer @ Research In Motion Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 Designed BlackBerry 10 operating system and core apps. Produced IP. ### Sr. Human Factors Engineer @ Qualcomm, Inc. Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 Raised seed funding to start a mobile visual search project called iDiscover in the Office of the Chief Scientist. Recruited a team, developed the concept, and produced IP. Designed Verizon's first mobile app store. Designed BREW MP Developer website and BREW SDK desktop tools. ### Human Factors Engineer @ Qualcomm, Inc. Jan 2004 – Jan 2007 Designed core apps for the Siemens SXG75 3G phone. ### IT @ Handspring Jan 2002 – Jan 2003 Internal technical support for software and hardware ### System Administrator @ InterHDL Jan 1998 – Jan 1998 UNIX, Linux, HP, Windows NT system administration ## Education ### Strategy and Leadership Harvard Business School Online ### B.S. in Cognitive Science spec. Human-Computer Interaction UC San Diego ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jhuang255 --- Source: https://flows.cv/josephhuang JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/josephhuang/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13