# Kat W.

> Product Designer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/katw1

Product designer with experience in developing design solutions for consumer and industrial domains. Creating and delivering end-to-end experiences for mobile, tablet, desktop on global, multidisciplinary teams. Detail-oriented, analytical, creative in solving complex problems to meet product vision and business goals. Fueled by passion to create great products in which design and technology converge elegantly.

http://www.katwang.com

## Work Experience
### Product Designer @ Meta
Jan 2023 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States

### Product Design Manager @ WhatsApp
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led design team for WhatsApp Payments UX, managing P2P and P2M experiences and strategies for India Payments, Payments Foundations, and WhatsApp Business payments integration. Supported messaging monetization with Meta FinTech and payments design strategy for WhatsApp.

### Product Designer @ WhatsApp
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led design for WhatsApp Payments for India, with focus in UPI payment experiences and consumer growth. Supported payment experience integrations on WhatsApp for Brazil and Novi cryptocurrency pilot.

### Staff UX Designer, Design Systems @ Visa
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
Chartered design systems program. Directed and built design artifacts, kits and documentation. Common component libraries and patterns are adopted company-wide by multiple global products and teams.

### Staff UX Designer, Visa Checkout @ Visa
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California, United States
Delivered designs for Visa Checkout payment experience, with focus on global market expansion and authentication flows. Defined designs that resulted in partnership with third-party wallets and issuers in Visa Checkout Open Platform.

### Senior Interaction Designer, Strategic Initiatives @ eBay
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Jose, California, United States
Involved in strategic initiatives to increase user engagement by researching, conceptualizing and designing novel experiences. Developed comprehensive vision that aligned across vertical teams. 

Investigation areas include customer connections and community, account management and sign-in/registration optimization.

### User Experience Designer, Windows Store @ Microsoft
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015
Designed end-to-end UX solutions for Windows Store (8.1 + 10), with focus areas in consumer conversion, rating and review system, e-commerce payment/acquisition flow, and identity/user management.

### User Interface/Visual Designer @ Siemens Corporate Research
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Executed user-centric design throughout product development phases in UX projects with multi-disciplinary team; led efforts in visual design definition and drive brand integration in user interface for software applications of Siemens units in healthcare, industry and energy.

Initiated revision of visual design curriculum in UX Training Program; served as Visual Design instructor for US business units.

Wrote and created visual assets for NUI research, invention disclosures, POC presentations and strategy analysis/white papers in collaboration with UX research scientists and project managers

### Visual Design Intern @ Siemens Corporate Research
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Supported UX design with multi-disciplinary team in product development; created and refined visual asset for UX projects.

### Graphic Design Intern, University Advancement, Public Affairs @ San Jose State University
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | San Jose, California, United States
Supported design of official publications, collateral and promotional items representing University across multiple departments and colleges.

Led design of collateral set for "Bravo!" campaign for over 10 majors and focuses at the School of Music and Dance, and programs for Theatre, TV & Radio, and Animation, filling a gap in recruiting efforts; standardized design for music and theatre program guides/publications, connecting unity without losing unique program identity.

### Designer/Researcher @ Samsung Electronics America
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | San Jose, California, United States
Researched design concept direction and developed visuals for product in an academic-sponsored project for Samsung America.

Participated in Samsung Membership Global Design Project at Seoul, Korea, as one of two representatives from USA

### Designer @ Design Creature
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | San Jose, California, United States
In addition to main role of designer, led project management for School of Art and Design Website, San José State University in select group of BFA Graphic Design students.


## Education
### Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Graphic Design
San José State University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-13