# Qianru Zhang

> Staff Product Designer at LinkedIn

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

As a product designer at Linkedin, I believe a people-first approach is the key to lasting business success—prioritizing human needs, with or without technology, leads to the most impactful solutions. As a strategist and designer with 14+ years of experience in consumer product, I take a holistic approach to product design, crafting scalable solutions and intuitive workflows that drive both user satisfaction and business growth.

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2021 – Present
- Led the creation of the vision design and developed the long-term design strategy;
- Worked on the GAI related initiatives and innovations for knowledge seekers;
- Led the mobile and web redesign for Collaborative Articles, driving a 30%+ increase in members’ contribution;
- Led the vision design to transform Collaborative Articles from into a Q&A format.

### Senior Product Designer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led the vision design to enhance the discovery of out-of-network content on Linkedin;

### Product Designer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019
Led the Feed UI design to onboard partner teams’ products, while strategically iterating on feed templates to continuously drive engagement.

### Product Designer @ Weight Watchers
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco
Tackled on a video streaming experience for a high profile product.

### User Experience Designer @ Fantasy (Fi)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco,CA
-My role at Fantasy is responsible for defining strategic design direction and creating detailed design deliverables including Product architecture map, User flow, Interaction models, content strategy, Framework, Detailed wireframes, Interface design and Prototypes for product and service.

- Clients include: Google, Facebook, Adobe, HP, Palo Alto Networks, Huawei(mobile OS).

### User Experience Designer @ SapientNitro
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
Collaboratively worked with internal team to successfully deliver web and mobile application products across multiple platforms.

-Clients include:
 Dunkin Donuts, Staples, Ascena Retail Group, State Street financial investing corporate, 
 Citizens Bank, Philips HealthCare and CVS.

• Formulate design solutions through deeply understanding of customer insights 
• Creatively build cohesive user flow and conceptual sketch models based on user analysis 
• Deliver high quality detailed wireframes that consolidate design thinking and solutions
• Work closely with creative team and developers to ensure design development lifecycle completed.

### User Experience Design Intern @ SapientNitro
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Design Intern with User Experience team. Assisted UX team to gather and analyze consumer insights to create design concepts for several clients, including Dunkin Donuts, Baskin Robins, Staples and Cigna.

### Interaction design intern @ Smart Design
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | San Francisco,CA
Participated in designing digital solutions of future TV watching experience for an electronics giant company. Assisted research and interaction design team to analyze gathered user research and deliver high quality work to clients.

### Interaction Design Intern @ Motorola Solutions
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Explored a new user experience of future retail store inventory management system implemented with RFID technology. Created an interaction design solution working on mobile computing device that would potentially improve the efficiency of retail management. The accomplished document including system analysis, wireframes and user interfaces design. Meanwhile, collaboratively and creatively assisted the interdisciplinary interaction design team with some production tasks.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design
Tsinghua University

### Master of Arts (M.A.) in Industrial and Product Design
Savannah College of Art and Design


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

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Last updated: 2026-02-23