# Minji Kim

> Design Lead at IBM

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/minji

Senior UX Designer with 10+ years of experience designing enterprise-scale platforms and cloud-based solutions. Proven ability to simplify complex workflows for API management, high-speed data transfer, and automation. Passionate about creating intuitive, scalable experiences that drive measurable business impact.

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Designer @ IBM
Jan 2020 – Jan 2026 | San Jose, CA
API Connect: Led end-to-end UX strategy across core workflows for technical users such as API developers, platform product managers. 
• API Studio - Develop, test, publish API with AI assist.
• Governance: Enforces consistent API policies and access controls. 
• Business Engagement: Automated workflows and notifications with custom rules.

Aspera: Led UX for high-speed file transfer across SaaS, desktop, and mobile, improving large-data delivery workflows for the media & entertainment users.
• Increased SaaS trial conversion by 3% in 90 days via guided onboarding and desktop app redesign, increasing first-time transfer success by 12%.
•Enhanced admin usability with a new navigation and actionable dashboard, achieving 83% of key tasks completed in under 15 seconds.

### User Experience Designer @ IBM
Jan 2014 – Jan 2020 | Emeryville
•Led user experience for Share2, a file sharing and management software for enterprises. 
•Led design for Aspera Files (http://files.asperasoft.com/) admin features.
•Conducted user research with customers to understand users and define design problems. 
•Provided wireframes, interactive prototypes and documentations. 
•Collaborated with visual designers, product managers and front end developers in agile process.

### UX Design Intern @ IBM
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Emeryville, California
• Delivered UX and visual design for Aspera Drive, a cross-platform mobile file-sharing app (iOS & Android)

### Strategy Intern @ Continuum
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea
• Conducted user research and delivered design guideline for Client project: the future of Smart TV.
• Contributed to create a trend analysis tool for internal project.

### Design Research Assistant @ Ewha Womans University
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 | Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Korea
• Conducted user research, usability testing and wire framing across various platforms including web site, IPTV and education robot.

### Research Intern, Customer Business Strategy Department @ SK Networks
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007
• Designed consumer products and storytelling based on SK group’s logo for branding initiative.
• Assisted in research on consumer perceptions of SK group’s logo.

### UI Designer @ VisualShower
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
• In a startup, developed user interface and design elements for a mobile game “Left Brain Bytes”, published by Gamevil in Korea 2007, in US 2008.


## Education
### Master of Design
IIT Institute of Design

### Master of Design in Media interaction design
Ewha Womans University 이화여자대학교

### Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Design and Visual Communications, General
Ewha Womans University 이화여자대학교


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/minji-kim-mk

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Last updated: 2026-02-23