# Mun May Tee

> Head of Applied AI + Design @ AT&T / ex-Samsung SmartThings, Wikipedia, BrightAI

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/munmaytee

I turn powerful, ambiguous capabilities into products with customer pull and business value. At AT&T, I ➊ move agentic opportunities and high-utility AI tools to production ➋ built Design from the ground up into an upstream decision authority that de-risks, shapes, and owns outcomes from BAU to the CEO's growth agenda.

I come from execution — design, product, some code, and a founder background — so I hold the zone between what's possible and what people will actually use. I don't need a clean canvas.

I operate with the same resourcefulness. I'm the person who identifies and calls out waste: I've replaced costly external contracts with automations and lean internal tools and lead the investment framing that stops expensive, low-signal products before they become politically difficult to kill. 

In each case, the work outlasts my direct involvement — systems, platforms, and decision models so the org compounds on what's working.

## Work Experience
### Head of Applied AI & Design @ AT&T
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Own the applied AI portfolio — vet which gen AI and agentic opportunities are worth pursuing; build internal tools to evaluate, build, and deploy agentic workflows at scale.

Shifted how AT&T evaluates bets — from BAU to the CEO's growth agenda — so risk surfaces before launches become expensive to stop. That's what halted a major launch after testing proved the TAM the org had assumed wasn't there.

Shaped the product bets that entered the CEO's growth initiative portfolio — concepts compelling enough to secure funding & IP protection.

Walked into a politics-heavy space on week one and reframed our Digital vision around customer signal.

Made AT&T's Product Design function an upstream decision authority — designers here own strategy through execution, no handoff layer. We operate with capital efficiency.

### Product Leader @ BrightAI
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Shaped consumer fitness experiences around what people wanted from connected hardware - not what the hardware could do.

Embedded customer signal into roadmap decisions to identify opportunities and invalidate risky assumptions before committing resources.

### Founder @ NouCuisine
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Product and Design Leader @ SmartThings
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Delivered a coherent IoT product experience out of a post-acquisition standoff — competing internal teams and a vocal user base ready to revolt.

Replaced internal politics with customer signal as the deciding authority for pursue / pivot / drop decisions.

Defined & shipped desktop and home security experiences within the IoT platform.

### Founding Design Lead @ OpenCounter
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Defined and built OpenCounter 2.0, establishing a durable product model that continues to be used post-acquisition.

### Design Leader @ Wikimedia Foundation
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
When prior attempts to introduce a design system at Wikipedia failed, I took a different approach — using a contentious accessibility debate as the foundation the community could rally behind.. enabling sustained interface evolution across Wikipedia since. 

Designed the Wikipedia iOS mobile app, which received an  Apple Editors' Choice Award. 

Built a prototyping tool that enabled non-technical contributors to shape product ideas within a shared visual language.

### User Experience Leader @ The Weather Channel
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Greater Atlanta Area
Led design for The Weather Channel's Windows apps through a major rebrand — driving app ratings from 2★ to near 5★ app ratings.

### Art Director @ BrightHouse, LLC
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Greater Atlanta Area
Uncovered brand strategies at the intersection of purpose, profit and social impact for Fortune 500 brands like American Standard and FedEx.

### Designer & Producer @ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Atlanta
Managed the production of twodocumentary short films to galvanize collective action on America’s obesity epidemic... for Michelle Obama!

### Art Director @ Various organizations
Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 | Australia, Malaysia, USA

### Art Director @ J. Walter Thompson Worldwide
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | Melbourne, Australia


## Education
### BFA in Advertising Design
Savannah College of Art and Design

### Diploma in Graphic Design
Victoria University

### Business Foundation in Business Studies
Kolej Universiti HELP


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/munmay

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Last updated: 2026-04-07