# Nayoung Kim > UX Design Manager at Youtube Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/nayoung ## Work Experience ### UX Design Manager @ YouTube Jan 2024 – Present | San Bruno, California, United States ### UX Design Manager @ Google Jan 2021 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States Managed a design team focused on enhancing the Wholepage experience for Search Ads UI, with an emphasis on evolving ads placement within the new Wholepage structure by collaborating closely with the search organization to align the business and user goals of Ads and Search. ### Director of Product Design @ Yelp Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area - Owned the entire Business Owner experience design function, overseeing design and creative direction, managing a team of 12 designers and 2 design managers, focusing on envisioning and implementing new products for Yelp for Business Owners. - Conceptualized and launched a completely new business owner portal, securing leadership buy-in and collaborating with key partners to bring the product to market successfully. ### Lead Product Designer, Design Manager @ Apple Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Cupertino, California - Led and provided the entire user experience for Apple ID, Family Sharing, and account management across iOS, macOS, and web platforms, driving the strategic direction of user interface design, ensuring a cohesive and intuitive user experience across all platforms, aligning design efforts with broader business objectives, and executing products to the market as a solo designer. - Managed and guided a design team within the iCloud Human Interface group. ### Director of Design @ Zipongo - Eating Well Made Simple Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, CA - Led the entire creative direction and experience strategy for web, mobile, marketing and branding. - Managed a staff of 4 designers to build a delightful product experience. ### Sr. User Experience Designer @ Adobe Jan 2008 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco - Identified and executed a new service concept, Creative Cloud Design Library, and implemented the service in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and 5 other mobile apps. - In charge of the entire UX consideration for Edge Animate as a lead designer, from product planning, wireframe, workflow, user research, to visual design and final production ready supports. - Took a lead designer role of Flash Pro and planned the next generation Flash Pro with a new framework and interaction model. ### Co-founder @ Grini Jan 2004 – Jan 2008 Nature friendly family furniture - Pursued the design of environmentally-friendly product for family to provide easy interaction at a consumer friendly price - Participated in whole process of design from concept ideation to manufacturing - Held an exhibition in seoul ### Research Contractor @ Nokia Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 - Conducted Korean segment of a navigation study designed to identify cultural and behavioral differences in how people find their way through an urban environment. - Managed navigation tasks to ten research subjects. Synthesized and analyzed research, and presented high-level key findings and concept designs to Nokia. ### Industrial Designer @ LG Electronics Jan 2002 – Jan 2004 Researched and conceptualized product ideas for next-generation audio devices for the export market, including serial mp3 players for the launch of new LG brand Xfree. ## Education ### Master of Product Development in Product Development, Interaction Design, HCI Carnegie Mellon University ### BS in Industrial Design Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nayoung - Portfolio: http://nayoungk.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/nayoung JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/nayoung/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13