# Ray Lin

> Staff Product Designer @ Vanta | Design Leader | Team Builder | Systems Thinker

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/raylin1

Design & research leader with 12+ years experience in B2B and B2C. My sweet spot is working on complex workflows, with experience in Fintech, data, and e-commerce domains.

I currently lead the design team for our Mortgage business at Blend, where we design automated and seamless financial services experiences.

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer @ Vanta
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Leading design for Risk

### Senior Product Design Manager @ Blend
Jan 2020 – Jan 2025
I currently manage our mortgage product design team, spanning the consumer-facing application (responsive web) and enterprise-facing experiences for loan approval (web & mobile), lead management, and administration. 
- Grew a team of 2 to 7 designers, overseing the transition from a growth-stage startup to post-IPO
- Increased our enterprise user base from 30k to 70k DAU
- Oversaw design expansion of single to multiple product lines, spanning in-house and marketplace offerings

### Lead product designer / Lead user researcher @ Blend
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Joined as a product design lead, and after a year I founded user research practice & team and scaled it to two user researchers supporting product and go-to-market teams. 
- Foundational research supported two 0 to 1 projects: our native mobile app for loan officers and a new loan scenarios feature
- Usability findings resulted in document request feature redesign, which resulted in an increase of 18% users and 6x more documents sent

### Product design lead @ Workday
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led a team of 7 engineers and designers to release the user experience of our first post-acquisition (Platfora) data platform, Workday Prism Analytics. This involved leading scrum ceremonies (standups, sprint planning, retrospectives), designing the user interface, cross-team alignment of our UI components with the larger Workday Canvas design system, and running user interviews to solicit feedback.

### Senior UX Designer @ Platfora (Acquired by Workday)
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Mateo
Design lead for a major refresh of Platfora's data transformation experience.

### UX Designer/Prototyper @ Electronic Arts
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
Worked on Origin Mobile, Origin Store, and the Origin desktop client. Created wireframes, mocks, prototypes, and iteratively worked with local & remote front-end development teams, PMs, and designers.

### Software Engineer @ Adobe Systems
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco
Worked on front end development for Adobe Search & Promote, as well as new initiatives within the company. Built large javascript client applications as well as maintaining large amounts of old client side Javascript/html/css. Worked with server-side templating & code, client-side Javascript, with expertise in javascript and CSS: jQuery, Backbone.js, YUI, modernizr, canvas, raphaelJS, CSS3 (post-processing via compass, sass)

### Financial Software Developer Intern @ Bloomberg
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | New York City
Developed and ported a forward pricing analysis tool from fortran to a new software platform written in C++ and javascript. Modularized interface code for future reusability and extensibility.


## Education
### MHCI in Human-Computer Interaction
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor of Science in Computational Biology
Carnegie Mellon University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-13