# Mike Homnick > Lead Product Designer at Chime Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/mikehomnick I'm a product designer crafting impactful experiences for millions of Americans. My background in journalism, photography, and visual design gives me a unique perspective on bringing ideas to life. ## Work Experience ### Lead Product Designer @ Chime Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Senior Product Designer @ Chime Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Senior Product Designer @ LendingClub Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco - Led end-to-end redesign of membership platform for 5M active users. - Used high fidelity prototypes and customer journeys to evangelize future vision and communicate a member-focused strategic vision with executive stakeholders. - Delivered 30% YOY lift in loans issued to members, first ever $1B quarter for these loans. ### Product Designer @ LendingClub Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco ### Product Designer @ FiveStars Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco - Redesigned in-store experience to boost new user signups by 20% - Built dashboard experience to help merchants better understand campaign performance - Developed and led UX research initiatives to inform product roadmap ### Experience Design Intern @ FiveStars Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Assisted the experience design team with all facets of the design process including user research, synthesis, ideation, sketching, wireframing, prototyping, user testing, interaction design, and visual design for the FiveStars consumer mobile app and merchant web dashboard, eventually taking on a primary design role for the merchant web dashboard. ### Student, User Experience Design Immersive @ General Assembly Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco 10-week immersive course with a focus on UX tools, UX techniques, and client-facing projects. We learn the most current techniques, software and processes from various leaders in the field to craft thoughtful and thorough products for our clients. During the course I completed three projects: Move Loot | E-Commerce UX group project | 2.5 weeks - Used resesarch and user testing to design and prototype new personalized shopping and style exploration user flows for Move Loot - Designed high-fidelity interactive prototype -Worked directly with Move Loot’s business team Patelco Credit Union | Banking UX group project | 2 weeks - Redesigned Patelco Credit Union’s homepage to help attract and educate potential new members - Used research to create high-level personas - Designed a high-fidelity wireframe prototype Party City | E-Commerce UX project | 2 weeks - Redesigned Party City’s online store navigation - Created a new “Featured Parties Blog” user flow and wireframe prototype - Used research and user testing to solve a persona’s problems. ### Digital Imaging Specialist @ IDG Consumer & SMB Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, CA As a member of the editorial design team at IDG Consumer & SMB, I helped shape the unique visual identities of PCWorld.com, Macworld.com, TechHive.com and Greenbot.com through photography and image procurement and editing. My main duties involved creation of images for daily promoted “hero” stories on each website, product photography both inside and out of the studio and chart creation. ### Editorial Intern @ IDG Consumer & SMB Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco, CA Wrote feature and news stories for PCWorld, TechHive and Macworld, assisted editors with research for print and Web articles, created graphics and other visuals for Web content, performed social media duties. ### Image Editor @ Revolution Imaging and Design Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Portland, OR Performed digital image editing using Adobe Creative Suite in a Mac environment, communicated with U.S.-based and international clients over the phone and through email. ### Intern @ Bellingham Business Journal Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Bellingham, WA Wrote and photographed feature stories and news tips for print and the Web, created a multimedia feature, managed web content for BBJToday.com. ### Editor in Chief @ Klipsun Magazine Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Bellingham, WA Oversaw all stories for two issues, managed staff of 11 editors, built and implemented budget and schedule for three month quarter. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Visual Journalism Western Washington University Jan 2006 – Jan 2011 ### User Experience Design Immersive General Assembly Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michaelhomnick - Portfolio: http://mikehomnick.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/mikehomnick JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mikehomnick/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25