# Michael Wang > Designer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelwang5 ## Work Experience ### Staff Product Designer @ GitHub Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 Working on Copilot, Codespaces, future of development, and other things. Learning lots. Design, development (RoR + React). ### Advisor @ Upshift Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 ### Head of Design @ Northstar Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area I joined a team as first design hire to execute on the vision of autonomous personal finance. Everyone deserves the peace of mind that their budget, loans, and savings are balanced and allocated in the most efficient places, and we're building the tools to make it available to all. Sole designer on product, building design system/component library, contributing front end developer (React + Typescript) ### Product Design Lead, Transit @ Lyft Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Led and helped scale a team from 4 to 30 at Lyft that focused on multi-modal transportation options. We shipped features such as public transportation schedules and routing tools that helped our customers make better, more-informed transportation decisions. Collaborating with our recruiting partners, helped architect hiring guidelines for the Product Design organization, which contributed in growing Lyft's Product Design team from 13 to 90+. ### Product Designer @ Lyft Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 I also was one of the core early contributors to the 2017 redesign of the Lyft passenger app. We helped unlock a huge improvement in ride conversion and won awards for our design. ### Cofounder, Product @ Teleport App Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area I founded Teleport with a few friends in 2015. Teleport helps bring people together by allowing organizations, and regular people alike to send cars to friends, clients, and more. Imagine running your own car service without the overhead. While at Teleport, I led the product direction, developed early prototypes and conducted user studies, produced interaction + visual design across all of our platforms (web, mobile, iOS), generated branding and managed marketing and PR materials, and defined and developed the front-end web stack (Sass, jQuery, Underscore, & Backbone.js) from scratch. ### Product Designer @ Facebook Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Designer on profile. I used all the tools at my disposal to make your Facebook profile slightly, slightly better. Product, interaction, visual, data, prototyping, code. A sample of things I've designed/improved/managed/touched: Profile picture videos. Expiring profile pictures. About + profile fields [architecture + growth strategy + visibility + privacy]. First time user experience + overall user retention. Self expression tools like picture upload tools. Native-language names. Major life events. Family tagging + scrapbooking. Timeline visibility + activity log. Performance + optimization. ### Senior Product Designer @ Huge Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | DUMBO, Brooklyn Led creation of user flows, interaction guidelines, visual design, and rapid prototyping for large client engagements, including Comcast, Chase, and AARP Led front-end development of both prototypes and production web applications for projects for clients including Yahoo, Coca-Cola, and Revolt. ### Visual Designer @ Odopod Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, contributed interaction design, visual design, and front-end development to many successful client projects, including IWC, Sony, Google, EA, UFC, and much more, in many different capacities. ### Junior Designer @ Odopod Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 ### Web Designer @ Tightrope Interactive, Inc. Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 Created direct marketing collateral for the web and screen at a startup online lead generation marketing firm. Working with one other web designer, developed identities and graphics for multiple company properties for a variety of audiences, while generating industry-leading conversion rates and revenue numbers. ## Education ### B.A. in Economics, Visual Communications University of California, Davis ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mkwng - Portfolio: http://mkwng.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/michaelwang5 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/michaelwang5/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13