# Maria Iu > Senior Principal Designer at LinkedIn Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/mariaiu ## Work Experience ### Senior Principal Product Designer @ LinkedIn Jan 2023 – Present I lead horizontal projects looking across the entire ecosystem of LinkedIn. A key area of focus for me is the intersection of AI and human collaboration. My work ignites a deep interest in exploring how we can establish meaningful partnerships between humans and machines to revolutionize the way we work together. ### Principal Product Designer @ LinkedIn Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, CA, United States ### Staff User Experience Designer @ LinkedIn Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Leading the design team that focuses on News, Publishing & Curation, and Slideshare & Documents. Helping our members build audiences, community, and conversations around their professional interests. ### Manager, User Experience Design @ LinkedIn Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 Leading the Identity team to build experiences that help members get discovered for opportunity. ### Senior User Experience Designer @ LinkedIn Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View, CA Project Voyager, LinkedIn's new flagship mobile app. ### User Experience Designer @ LinkedIn Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, CA Designed streamlined user experiences for LinkedIn emails communications, lead the initiative on our new messaging platform, and worked on the desktop homepage. ### Creative Designer @ Appcelerator Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area UI/UX design for mobile applications, web design across all web properties. Design and art direction for the Appcelerator CODESTRONG Mobile Conference event. Responsible for design of all marketing collateral (print, web, direct mail, trade show booths, videos, reports, and corporate identity) to support Appcelerator marketing campaigns. Presentation and graphic design for sales and marketing. Creation of infographics and data visualizations to illustrate complex stories, data, and insights. Design to support corporate culture, including environmental graphics for the office space. ### Graphic Design and Illustration @ Freelance Designer Jan 2006 – Jan 2012 Clients: Khosla Ventures, DataForte, Old Mountain View Coffee Company, TwoHungryPandas.com, UCLA Student Media, ASUCLA Marketing and Licensing, DPM Records, SongCrusader, EnviroConsumer.com, BaiMi, Solum, Orange ### Multimedia Intern: Knowledge Transfer Team @ Orange Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 Production of multimedia content for print and web. Presentation design, creation of infographics, copyediting, video production and editing, research on web 2.0 technologies and trends. ### Graphic Artist Intern @ Cassidy Turley Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 Led the conversion of marketing collateral to a new brand identity (Cassidy Turley/BT Commercial) for the Palo Alto office. Designed marketing materials for commercial real estate properties - multipage documents, flyers, postcards, email blasts, and interactive pdfs. ### Graphics Intern @ California Nurses Association Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 Designed marketing collateral: flyers, banners, billboards, postcards, ads, web design, and brochures. ### Graphic Designer @ Associated Students UCLA Jan 2006 – Jan 2009 Graphic designer at the Associated Students of UCLA Marketing department, creating logos, flyers, posters, illustrations, visual displays and signage. ### Editor in Chief, Creative Director @ Pacific Ties Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 Pacific Ties, is a Los Angeles based Asian Pacific Islander magazine. In 2008, I launched the magazine’s first venture into online publication, blogging, and social networking sites. I also established the creative direction of the magazine, and designed the magazines' layouts, infographics, and themes centered around social change and cultural awareness. ### Publicity Intern @ Focus Features Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 I worked for the summer as a publicity intern - making press packets, distributing daily breaks to directors, producers, and executives, filing, photocopying, and answering phone calls. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies, Global Studies UCLA ### 2013 Extension Program in Interaction Design San Francisco State University ### 2012 Extension Program in Experimental Typography California College of the Arts ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mariaiu --- Source: https://flows.cv/mariaiu JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mariaiu/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13