# Nayeon Kim

> Design @ Waymo

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

## Work Experience
### Senior User Experience Designer @ Waymo
Jan 2026 – Present

### Senior Product Designer @ Patreon
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026
Helping creators to grow their businesses on Patreon 🚀

### Product Designer @ Lyft
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023
• Rider Home & Purchase: Drove vision and design thinking across Rider journey from personalization on Home, revamped scheduling flow, to purchase optimizations. Contributed to millions in annualized revenue through bookings. 
• Consumer Platform: maintained components across Rider teams, championing dark mode and a11y compliant designs and helped secure valuable contracts
• Ran Lyft’s Design Mentorship program, fostering growth & community across the design org, organizing matches and structured support

### User Experience Designer @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Designed and prototyped core Camera and Gallery app experiences for Samsung's flagship S20 Galaxy phone, contributing to the 2020 Single Take Mode release. 
• Facilitated workshops with EVPs and stakeholders across SF and Seoul, driving ideation, concept development, and strategy.

### iOS Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Built and launched globally Live Video and Video Calling as 0 to 1 features on Instagram iOS app. Worked on core features such as co-broadcasting and viewer interactivity (comments, likes, waves, Q&A), from experimentation to launch. Supported a growing product domain and engineering team 
• Mentored new engineers through Facebook's bootcamp program

### User Experience Designer @ Pomello | YC 2015
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
• Developed and launched a new landing page, overseeing UX and product branding
• Created new client-facing data analytics Dashboard and Culture Profile products

### Software Engineering Intern @ Instagram
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Menlo Park, CA
• Built multi-video clip stitching and editing in the Instagram creation flow

### Advertising Manager @ The Tech (MIT)
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Cambridge, MA
• Drove $170k+ in annual revenue for The Tech
• Initiated and implemented online advertising services on the web edition of The Tech, and oversaw relations with advertising clients

### UI/UX Design Intern @ Factual Inc
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
• Responsible for designing and prototyping tools for review and analysis of Factual's location & API data, such as an interactive geocode visualization, metadata-driven search. 
• Used wireframes, high fidelity mocks, and web prototypes to define UI/UX

### Undergraduate Researcher @ MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Cambridge, MA
• Assisted in designing language experiments using PRAAT speech analysis. Ran fMRI scans and EEG sessions, collecting structural image and wave data.
• Authored Freesurfer analysis guide on Github to help other researchers with using the software for analysis


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-25