# Kristine Yuen > Senior Design Manager at LinkedIn | Speaker | Adjunct Professor at CCA | Design Mentor on ADPList.org Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kristineyuen I am a Senior Design Manager at LinkedIn, leading a team of product designers to create the best customer experience for the Pages, Messenger, and Groups product across our Consumer team. Previously, I was a consultant at Deloitte Digital for 5+ years working with 12 different Fortune 500 companies in the retail, consumer and industrial products, healthcare, financial, and high-tech industries on mobile, eCommerce, and web products. My unique skills brings a blend between design, business, and technology. I have experience in process design, design research, design strategy, information architecture, UX/UI design, product management, prototyping, storytelling, systems design, technology implementations, usability testing, QA, and visual design. In my free time, I enjoy mentoring and coaching aspiring UX designers and students. I also love presenting and speaking about design related topics such as networking, interviewing, job hunting, portfolios, and making strong LinkedIn profiles. If you're interested in talking, please send me a message to connect! ## Work Experience ### Senior Design Manager - Profile and Pages (Identity) @ LinkedIn Jan 2025 – Present | Sunnyvale, CA Leading a team of 7 product designers ### Senior Design Manager - Pages, Messaging, and Groups @ LinkedIn Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Overseeing the Product Design teams on Pages, Messaging, and Groups at LinkedIn. Through Pages, we are helping small businesses and organizations create a product and service marketplace via storefronts, enable a knowledge marketplace by building tools for knowledge creation, analytics, and content workflow management, and enabling a talent marketplace by allowing brand management and job posting. Additionally, we partner with enterprise and monetization teams to enable marketers through advertising, sales people through network data, and recruiters through jobs. On Messenger and Groups, we are helping enabling community and connection by allowing members to share communicate with each other in private and public forums. ### Senior Design Manager - Pages @ LinkedIn Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Overseeing the Pages Design team (1 Manager, 10 Designers, 2 UXR, and 1 Content Design) across 3 distinct product areas. Working on products that help enable 10 million+ SMBs and Enterprises to successfully develop a social presence on LinkedIn, build storefronts, and drive business outcomes across their marketing, sales, and talent brand business. Creating product experiences using the end-to-end design process across strategy, research, systems thinking, interaction design, and visual design on mobile and desktop. Conducting various managerial tasks such as guiding the product vision, resource planning, operations, and coaching/mentoring. Coordinating projects and driving product and design strategy across multiple lines of business at LinkedIn on Consumer and Enterprise. Building culture across the team and company by actively being involved in the design community, internal and external mentorship, and creating trainings/courses. ### Design Manager @ LinkedIn Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Leading a team of designers on the Pages, Employee Experience (formerly Elevate), and Products Marketplace products to drive the product strategy and design execution from a user-centric perspective. Working on tasks such as guiding the product vision, resource planning, process improvement, coaching and mentoring, and ensuring design quality. Partnering with Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, and other cross-functional stakeholders to drive decision making and delivery of the product. ### Design Team Lead @ LinkedIn Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 Leading a team of designers on the Pages and Elevate product to drive the end-to-end design process on mobile and web platforms. Delivering designs for several key features across the member and admin experience for Pages. ### User Experience Designer @ LinkedIn Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Designing LinkedIn's advertising products and Campaign Manager tool as part of the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions team. Working on the end-to-end design process such as research, user flows, wireframes, prototyping, and visual design. Collaborating with Product Managers, Engineers, Product Marketing Managers, and other cross-functional partners to strategically come up with the best experience for customers. ### Adjunct Professor @ California College of the Arts Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Teaching a course for the Masters of Design program at CCA for Interaction Design students called "Leadership by Design". The course covers topics related to leadership skills in design such as management, facilitation, design strategy, project management, negotiation, and collaboration. ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ California College of the Arts Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Assisted with professors in teaching, grading, and mentoring undergraduate Interaction Design senior and junior students in two courses: Creative Founder and Senior Thesis. Creative Founder is a business and design course focused around running a startup and seeking seed funding. Senior Thesis is a year-long course in which graduating seniors explore a final topic of their choosing. ### Senior Consultant @ Deloitte Digital Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area Worked on mobile, eCommerce, and web system projects. Led cross-functional and global teams to create mobile applications and web platforms. Created business and design strategies, conducted design research, designed business processes, designed user interfaces, implemented technologies, and performed user testing. Collaborated with developers, designers, and business to execute agile or waterfall implementations. Past clients include: Avon, Kohl's, Walmart, TJX Companies, OfficeMax, Pier 1 Imports, HP, EMC, Cardinal Health, Pfizer, DuPont, and Deloitte Tax LLP. ### Consultant @ Deloitte Digital Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Business Technology Analyst @ Deloitte Digital Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Greater Chicago Area ### Diversity Student Recruitment Coordinator @ University of Notre Dame Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 | Office of Undergraduate Admissions Coordinated admissions recruitment projects targeting 2,000+ low-income diversity prospective students. Planned 3 annual visitation weekends on campus for a total of 200+ students from the US yielding a 60-70% annual enrollment rate. ## Education ### Master's of Design in Interaction Design California College of the Arts ### Bachelor's of Business Administration in Information Technology Management University of Notre Dame ### Certificate in Chinese Language and Literature East China Normal University ### Certificate in Chinese Studies Fu Jen Catholic University ### High School Diploma in Summa Cum Laude Adams High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kristineyuen - Portfolio: http://www.kristineyuen.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/kristineyuen JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kristineyuen/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13