# Kristen Young > Lead Designer, Product and Strategic Design at Bain Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kristenyoung I’m Kristen Young, a Senior Product Designer at Bain & Company, who strives to create empathetic designs in both the physical and digital environment. Born and raised in Hawaii, I’ve learned to advocate for a diverse and collaborative approach to solving problems. Over the years, I’ve gained both academic and professional skills as an architect and visual designer, working with cross-disciplinary teams to design and develop exceptional products. These experiences have helped me form a holistic, user- centered and compassionate approach when making design decisions. Currently based in San Francisco, you can find me creating multimedia digital art, out in the city photographing portraits or hiking and camping in the dense wilderness. Skills: Wireframing, User Research, User Flows, Information Architecture, Storyboarding, Prototyping, Usability Testing, Competitive Analysis, Branding, Visual Design, UI Design, Typography, Photography, Accessibility, Customer Experience, Consultant Coordination Tools: Figma, Sketch, InVision, Miro, Canva, Webflow, Adobe Creative Suite, G Suite, Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp, Rhinoceros, V-ray, Bluebeam Portfolio: kristeny.com - Please reach out if you'd like access ## Work Experience ### Lead Product Designer @ Bain & Company Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Collaborate across the design thinking process with over 20+ Fortune 500 clients- from deep customer understanding to conceptualizing, prototyping and testing ### Senior Product Designer @ Bain & Company Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Product Designer @ Bain & Company Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Small Business Owner @ KLSY Studios Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States A small online business offering digital downloadable products. • Launched and currently maintaining an online business selling digital, downloadable art on multiple platforms. • Achieved 22k+ unique visits and 400+ sales in the first year of business by promoting across social media to increase traffic. • Run competitive audits to understand user trends and create elegant digital modern artwork that is consistent and on-brand. ### UX/UI Designer @ Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States • Design and prototype impactful responsive websites and applications in response to complex problems. • Tandem: Conducted UX research for the nonprofit and delivered an information architecture, UI and branding, web redesign prototype. • PictureHum: Lead the design in translating and redesigning the visual identity of the PictureHum website to high-fidelity mock ups and design system for a mobile photo booking app. ### Designer @ BDE Architecture Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area • Developed 3 Bay Area projects and 300+ Units of multi-family housing throughout different phases of research and development from conceptual design through construction. • Communicated with project managers, engineers and developers to coordinate and present design solutions and implementation. ### Junior Designer @ Lowney Architecture Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Oakland, California • Collaborated with cross-functional teams and key stakeholders on over 150 units of multi-family housing, from schematic design through construction drawings. • Develop planning and creative-design concepts for projects alongside design leadership, and assist the team with production, redlining, and coordination. • Assist the team in assuring that design concepts meet programmatic requirements • Provide assurance that concepts comply with building codes and technical excellence ### Architectural Designer @ Kovac Design Studio Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Los Angeles Area • Initiate and integrate Fohlio program to organize products, specs and projects. • Help build various scale models and create rendered drawings for project proposals. • Take field measurements to create proposed interior elevations for a housing remodel. ### Architectural Designer @ WATG and Wimberly Interiors Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Honolulu, Hawaii • Participate in concept and design phases of various projects by producing 3-D models, plans, elevations and renderings • Develope and edit 3-D model for company canstruction competition and internal office renovations. ### Shop Assistant @ UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 • Provide technical and hands-on instructional support and assistance for students • Supervise shop access and use during certain hours and assist the Shop Supervisor in various tasks • Maintain and operate 3-D printers, laser-cutters and CNC machine ## Education ### Master of Architecture - MArch in Architecture UCLA ### Punahou School ### Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Design University of Hawaii at Manoa ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristen-ls-young - Website: kristeny.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/kristenyoung JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kristenyoung/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-07