# Jung Kim

> UX Director, Google Labs

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jungkim

## Work Experience
### UX director, Google Labs @ Google
Jan 2021 – Present
Humanize AI– leading new product experiments & discovering future worth chasing

### Head Of Design, Next Billion Users @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Lead design team for Next Billion Users group

### Design Lead @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021
Design lead for Google Assistant Product 
- Crafting the product vision for conversational AI across platforms including Pixel phone and Google home
- Leading the team/projects with UX designers, Voice UI designer and Visual designers

### Experience Design Lead @ Airbnb
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Design lead for Host Growth team 
- Set the vision for user experience and product direction, working closely with XFN team 
- Scopes project work and helps define the design process and timeline.
- Provides guidance and direction to team members regarding process and execution.
- Thinks through long-term impact of design, creates extensible design solutions and helps to define roadmap

Host Growth team mission
- Build the host community, which is Airbnb's competitive advantage. 
- Bring the opportunity of Airbnb hosting; Travel has gone mainstream, hosting has not. 
- Host and homes everywhere; We can never have enough great hosts and homes.

### Co-Founder @ Toofu, Inc
Jan 2006 – Jan 2016
Toofu Evangelist, Tofu artisan, Creative Director, Toofu recipe developer, Sales woman, Conceptualist. Mobile Tofu Truck specialist

### Staff User Experience Designer @ YouTube
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
Design manager

### Co-Founder @ Looah
Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
Looah, where community posts, translates, and discusses current affairs, breaking news, twitter and blog from all around the world. Citizen journalism meets social translation at Looah. Share your story with the people around the world! 
Break down the language barrier, one post at a time.
http://www.looah.com/

### Global Design Manager @ Yahoo!
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011

### Staff Experience Designer @ Yahoo!
Jan 2007 – Jan 2010
• Advise on design and product directions based on field research and
functional requirements, including an understanding of cross-cultural issues and challenges with localization and internationalization.
• Work with product teams on the localization and internationalization of Yahoo! properties for global markets.
• Evangelize the need for global product solutions and conduct training on
localization and globalization.
• Manage communication and idea exchange across multidisciplinary teams in different geographical regions
• Facilitate creation of best practices and methodology on global design and propagate solutions across product teams.
• Create visual design assets and help define product identity

### Sr. UI designer @ PayPal, an eBay company
Jan 2005 – Jan 2007
• Led UI on key international projects from ideation phase through usability sessions, to UI spec delivery
• Resolved a wide range of design issues in creative as well as practical ways and developed varied ideas delivering from high-level concept boards, flow charts, wireframes to hi-fi mockups, html prototypes
• Took initiatives for experimental project for global product experience and came up with visual tools and methodologies and worked on UED spec standard for cross functional team. 
• Used skills as a seasoned experienced professional with a full understanding of industry practices and business requirement, working on complex issues where analysis of product or research data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors to user experience
• Provided ongoing guidance to junior designer to exercise judgment in selecting design solutions, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining design objectives

### UI designer @ Nokia
Jan 2004 – Jan 2005
Responsible for look/feel of VitalSuite products lines (5 web-based applications 2 desktop applications). Analyzed user data and translated into UI using Prototypes within iterative design process. Provided HTML Mockups, Layout grid, CascadeStyleSheet, UI Style Guideline. Creative direction for visual design assets (layout grid, color palette, logo, icons, intro animation).


## Education
### MA in Digital Media Arts
Michigan State University

### BA in Liberal Arts, French
Seoul National University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/junuki

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Last updated: 2026-04-13