# Milee Y.

> Building human-centered, AI-native experiences | Perpetually curious

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/milee

## Work Experience
### Founding Product Designer @ Coursera | GenAI Incubation
Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, CA
Founding designer leading product vision and end-to-end design for a stealth, AI-native app, built by a small incubation team inside Coursera.

### Staff Product Designer @ Coursera
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, California, United States
Design lead for Coursera's AI learning platform, building the Coach experience end-to-end while establishing shared GenAI interaction systems used across products. 
- Designed Coach from early experiments to GA, defining human-AI interaction models that improved engagement and learning outcomes at scale. 
- Built GenAI design system enabling 7 teams across 10+ AI products with consistent behavior, trust signals, and accessibility.

### Senior Product Designer @ Coursera
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Re-architected Coursera’s design system into a flexible, extensible component and pattern framework, balancing scalability with shared visual consistency and governance.
- Established cross-team contribution models to accelerate system growth beyond the core team.
- Led interaction design for major product re-architecture efforts across logged-in and discovery surfaces.

### Freelance Product Designer @ Unknown
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Co-founder, CEO @ Daame
Jan 2013 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
I co-founded a brand to meet the need for work-friendly products for women. I led our ecommerce strategy through user research and iterative design improvements, which resulted in quarterly growth and production efficiencies. Sold in 2019.

### Business Manager @ EverRock Multimedia Inc
Jan 2007 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
As a founding team, I collaborated with engineers, sales and legal to establish the first 24-hour Korean TV entertainment broadcast in the Bay Area. I developed branding and an advertising strategy to grow regional and national advertisers, including Toyota and McDonald’s.

### Product Marketing Manager, Monetization @ Polyvore
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | San Francisco Bay Area
As an early team member behind the most significant social marketplace, I helped develop a monetization product strategy. I initiated projects directly impacting our revenue growth, managed product experiments, presented analysis and buy-in from internal and external stakeholders exceeding QoQ projections.


## Education
### ArtCenter College of Design


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mileeyu
- GitHub: https://github.com/mileeyu

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Last updated: 2026-04-13