# Mianying Chen

> Senior Product Designer | Scaling Enterprise UX & Design Systems for AI & Cloud

Location: Campbell, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mianying

Microsoft enables impactful design contributions to AI and cloud-based solutions. Recent projects include leading the Azure Terraform Resource Coverage Portal design, which improved user satisfaction significantly, and enhancing the Azure Bicep Output Terminal Experience, streamlining cloud resource deployment.  

Education from New York University (MS in Integrated Digital Media) complements a strong foundation in user research and interface design. Previous roles at SAP brought expertise in conversational design and Android systems, fostering collaboration across teams to deliver seamless user experiences. Core values include innovation, precision, and cross-functional teamwork.

## Work Experience
### Product Designer （Azure Arc) @ Microsoft
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Azure Arc (Manage third-party servers and devices through Azure)
- Arc Server Management: Centralized scattered services into Azure, cutting daily management time by ~60%.
- Run Command: Enabled running multiple browser scripts at once, reducing troubleshooting time by 30%.
- Agent Auto‑Upgrade: Automated upgrade process, improving patch compliance to 70% and cutting upgrade effort by 85%.
- OPS360 Integration: Combined Arc and monitoring workflows, boosting user onboarding completion and increasing Azure service bundle sales.

### Product Designer (Azure Governance) @ Microsoft
Jan 2022 – Present
Azure Governance (Tools to help businesses safely manage Azure resources)
- Resource Change Portal: Shows visual history of resource changes and allows batch actions—cutting related support tickets by 30%.
- Resource Delete Portal: Offers safe-delete and recovery with full audit trails, increasing delete adoption by 20%.
- Machine Configuration: Automates VM setup using policies and connects them to monitoring and analytics tools.
- ARM AI Assistant: Internal AI assistant for 1,200+ Azure engineers that provides guidance and streamlines daily tasks in Azure Resource Manager (ARM).

### Azure Deployment (Tools to help users launch apps and services on Azure) @ Microsoft
Jan 2022 – Present
Azure Deployment (Tools to help users launch apps and services on Azure)|
- Terraform Resource Coverage Portal: Helps users quickly find which Azure services support Terraform, improving development efficiency.
- Deployment Code Export: Allows users to export deployment setups as code with one click, enabling automation and reuse across teams.

### Founding product designer @ Soca
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Professional Community App focused on referrals, interviews, salary information
- Collaborated with 2 designers to ship iOS and Android apps from scratch, reaching over 4000 active users within the first 6 months.
- Lead the design team delivered prototypes, 200+ UI screens, and a structured design system with 60+ responsive components in Figma.
- Assist user research and conducted usability testings twice to iterate design.

### UX Design Specialist (Conversational Design) @ SAP
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States
- Partnering with the SAP Conversational AI team to define the pure voice control and conversational in-app navigation feature for the SAP business product.
- Led the recreating and managing of the CXD design system on Figma(Web/IOS), focusing on efficiency and collaboration.
- Organized the component’s spec workshop to help the team improve the consistency and readability of the sixteen CXD component specs’ library.

- Produced the four wireframes & interactive prototypes for the HR chatbot to show how users will experience solutions.

### UX Design Specialist (Fiori Android Design System) @ SAP
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States
- Designed and iterated the Fiori Android onboarding, privacy notice, and AR annotation pattern.

- Partnered with UX writer and developer on the design guideline and implementation for the Fiori Android design system.

- Explored the Fiori Fundamental library's design for helping developers build consistent Fiori apps in any web-based technology (React, Angular, Vue).

- Contributed to UX illustration library and guideline for SAP Fiori Design System.

### UX Designer @ Siemens Healthineers
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Princeton, New Jersey
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams on three enterprise projects
- Designed Hi-fi prototype & navigation flow for data-dense web dashboards. Advocated for, built & shipped a component-based design system
-Created a style guide for best practices in layout & typography

### UX Designer @ New York University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
- Created the end-to-end design solution jointly with the NYU community, including 50000 students and facilities, by using the method of user-centered design.
- Cooperated with PM and developer on three projects which included the NYU Room reservation platform, NYU IT Collaboration Platform, and NYU Account management system.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Integrated digital media
New York University

### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Advertising
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

### Associate of Arts - AA in Publishing
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mianying-chen-212b9a148
- Website: https://www.mianyingdesign.com

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Last updated: 2026-02-23