# Kailin Dong

> Product Designer @ Character.ai | ex Meta

Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kailin

Kailin is currently building next-gen AI products at Character.ai. Previously she was a design lead at Meta, partnered with directors and VP on cross-app monetization as well as launched multiple 0-1 commerce products for FB app, including FB reels monetization, business messaging across family of apps, FB shop etc. Before FB app, she was building AI fairness and development toolings at Facebook AI Research (FAIR & AML).

## Work Experience
### Product Designer @ Character.AI
Jan 2024 – Present
Building next-gen AI

### Staff Product Designer | FB Commerce & Monetization @ Meta
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Partnered with directors and VP on pitch to Zuck on ads innovation powered by GenAI.
• Led design team to launch several 0-1 products featured in press, including FB Shop Affiliate Program, Community Product Shop Guide, and AI Visual Search as part of 2021 FB app commerce priority 
• Led design of new monetization consumer experience for a portfolio of advertising solutions across Watch and Reels to drive Meta revenue growth.

### Product Designer | Meta, AI @ Meta
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Designed and built multiple AI development and ML fairness toolings for Meta to empower data understanding, annotation, management to increase modeling efficiency while enforcing responsible AI . Supported pioneer research including public release of Ego4D dataset and multimodal AI research at Reality Lab.

### UX Design Intern @ Samsung Semiconductor US
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked in Samsung ID8 Research and Innovation Lab and collaborated with Driveline platform to design future user experience for autonomous vehicles.

### HCI Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Pittsburgh Area
Work under Professor Jeffrey Bigham to design a mobile app with accessible and inclusive technology that allows hard of hearing people to use speech enabled devices.

### Experience Design Intern @ Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Los Angeles Area
• Mobile Design:  Worked on an enterprise mobile app project and conducted research on exemplars in current market. Designed UI wireframe, user journey, user flow, and working prototype for the mobile experience.

• Internet of Things:  Worked closely with hardware engineers on Internet of Things to design smart office experience.

### UX Designer @ Qingdao Kingshow International Co., Ltd.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Pittsburgh Area & Qingdao, China
Worked as a freelancer to help the company craft responsive company website for laptop and mobile experience. Rebrand company identity and design a new visual system.


## Education
### BDes (Bachelor of Design Degree) in Design
Carnegie Mellon University

### Double Major in HCI (Human Computer Interaction) in Human Computer Interaction
Carnegie Mellon University

### High School Diploma
George School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kailin-dong
- Website: http://kailin-dong.com

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JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kailin/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-02-23