# Mihyun Chloe Kim > Lead/Senior Product Designer | AI & Data SaaS | Founding Designer at Select Star (Acquired by Snowflake) Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/mihyun Proven track record of scaling complex platforms from MVP to exit (Acquired by Snowflake). Expert in simplifying technical workflows and building scalable design systems. As the Founding Product Designer at Select Star, I led the end-to-end design strategy from Seed to Series A acquisition. I specialize in bridging the gap between Engineering (ML/BE) and Design to build trustworthy AI Agents, Natural Language Search (NLS), and Data Visualization tools for enterprise clients. Core Expertise: 0 to 1 Product Strategy: Scaling MVP to Enterprise-grade SaaS AI & LLM UX: Designing for trust, explainability, and hallucinations Complex Data Viz: Lineage, Semantic Models, and Metrics Design Systems: Reducing dev time by >50% with scalable patterns ## Work Experience ### Lead Product Designer @ Select Star Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States [Acquired by Snowflake] • Scaled from MVP to Exit: Led end-to-end design from 0 to Series A (acquired by Snowflake), supporting 55+ enterprise clients and contributing to a reduction in data discovery time by up to 90%. • AI & Search UX (Self-Serve Impact): Spearheaded the UX architecture for Natural Language Search (NLS) & AI Agents. Designed explainability layers to solve LLM hallucination issues, increasing user trust and empowering users to self-serve insights—eliminating ad-hoc data requests and minimizing cross-functional communication overhead. • Data Visualization & Lineage: Revolutionized Data Lineage and Semantic Model experiences. Solved high-cardinality visualization challenges, accelerating new analyst onboarding from weeks to days and reducing root-cause analysis time from days to hours. • Design System & Efficiency: Established a scalable Design System from scratch. Created reusable patterns for complex data tables and admin workflows, reducing engineering UI implementation time by >50% and accelerating feature delivery speed. ### Founding Product Designer @ Select Star Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States First Product Hire ### Product Designer @ StratiFi Technologies Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States Series A FinTech Risk Management Platform (Backed by Y Combinator) • FinTech Risk Management: Redesigned reporting tools to visualize complex risk data, reducing report generation time • Interactive Dashboards: Created portfolio risk analysis dashboards, significantly improving user clarity and retention. ### Senior Digital Marketing Analyst @ CJ Cheiljedang Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Seoul, Korea Korea's No.1 Food & Bio Company (Fortune Global 500 affiliate) • Strategic Planning: Managed digital marketing strategies and budget allocation for major brands, analyzing market data to drive product launches and revenue growth. ### Marketing Strategy Analyst @ CJ Cheiljedang Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Seoul, Korea • Led insight-based strategies planning, media, and budget management across TV, print, digital media, offline events of 5 main brands • Analyzed and collected research results to identify the target market and product concept development, during which time participated in product design and established communication strategies through cooperation with outside agencies; conducted U&A test and consumer tracking research and managed PR event, TV Ad-brief, and viral contents ## Education ### Master of Fine Arts(MFA) in Interaction design Academy of Art University ### Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Management, General Sogang University ### Study abroad in Business/Managerial Economics Illinois Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mihyunk --- Source: https://flows.cv/mihyun JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mihyun/resume.json Last updated: 2026-02-23