# Mona Li > Staff Product Designer at Dremio Location: Santa Clara, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/mona As someone who wears multiple hats in the world of UX design, research, and analysis, I get a kick out of digging into tough problems and coming up with cool solutions. Mixing my love for numbers with a deep understanding of what people want, I aim to make stuff that makes other people's day. ## Work Experience ### Staff Product Designer @ Dremio Jan 2025 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States • Led the design of AI-driven analytics experiences (AI Agent, explain SQL/jobs, text-to-SQL, generative metadata) to simplify data discovery, enabling analysts to generate insights faster and reducing manual SQL writing. • Drove the UX for the Autonomous Reflections feature, empowering Dremio to self-optimize query performance; this design contributed to up to 10× faster query latency and an 80% decrease in manual tuning. • Owned the Cloud v2 onboarding journey, collaborating with PM, engineering, and marketing to reduce trial drop-off and accelerate user activation. • Designed a lineage graph and metadata panel for datasets, providing clear data provenance and context, helping users understand and self-serve their data. • Drove design strategy through cross-functional leadership, running user research, facilitating stakeholder alignment, and scaling our design system to support new data / AI features ### Senior User Experience Designer @ Dremio Jan 2021 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States ### User Experience Designer @ Incorta Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area • Researched and Identified problems through internal and external user interviews on Incorta Analyzer, collaborated with different stakeholders, and redesigned the analyzer interface as well as user flow. Leading to an increase of more than 300 business users and extremely positive feedback from several Fortune 500 companies. • Participated in the migration from Angular to React and proposed new dashboard prompt and schema pages, which drastically eased the learning barriers for the user with intuitive and clean interfaces. ### User Experience Designer @ YWAM Converge: Make a Difference Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area • Conducted research on the current ecosystem and stakeholders of YWAM Converge to learn the users' needs, unveil the shining points and create engaging user stories. • Refined the current user task flow of the YWAM Converge website. • Coordinated with developers to help YWAM Converge to move from website to mobile by prototyping a proof of concept mobile application. ### Design Consultant @ Hack the Hood Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley, California Delivered a new spatial management strategy that promotes Hack the Hood employee’s working efficiency, caters various working styles, and improves customer experience through two rounds of interview with 9 employees in HTH and 3 rounds of iteration. ### Analyst @ Seasun Inc Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | Zhuhai, Guangdong, China JX Online 3 (Most popular MMORPG in China) • Proposed marketing campaign and analyzed their effects by metrics. • Engaged in data platform display design and content design of data display system on the mobile terminal. • Cooperated with engineers to created event tracking in each function of the game and evaluated the effect of the new function. • Worked with user experience and design team to conduct interviews, surveys, and user-testing on specific topics such as clothing shop redesign and novice guidance. Successfully increased the income of clothing shop by more than 200% and decreased the churn rate by 6%. Brave Cross (Mobile Game) • Cooperated with engineers to design the database and different data modules. • Proposed marketing campaign and analyzed their effects by metrics and interviews. • Worked with user experience and design team to refine the game and decreased the churn rate from 76% to 39%. • Designed the fortuitous event system with data scientist and increase daily income by 30%. ## Education ### Master's degree in Interaction design California College of the Arts ### Bachelor's degree in Statistics Fudan University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mona-li - Website: https://www.mona-li.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/mona JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mona/resume.json Last updated: 2026-02-23