# Rui Zhao > Senior Product Designer at Walmart Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ruizhao I am a multi-disciplinary designer with 8-year experience in delivering cheerful and intuitive user experiences in mobile apps, SAAS products, landscape architecture, and urban design. I am passionate about exploring design opportunities from different lenses and generating more holistic and comprehensive solutions to complex challenges. I firmly believe that design can profoundly facilitate and empower everyone's life. Tools I used: Figma, Webflow, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Aftereffect, Rhino, Grasshopper Skills and methods: secondary research, conducting interviews, competitive analysis, affinity maps, empathy maps, personas, information architecture, user stories, user flows, sketching, wireframes, wireflows, rapid prototyping, style guide, design library, usability testing, design presentation ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer @ Walmart Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area • Led the design of an AI-powered brand creation tool, generating brand names, logos, and packaging designs. • Led the design of OSM, a PLM tool for fashion, enhancing project management and sample tracking. • Designed conversational AI features for TTP, enabling faster collection development for design teams. ### Product Designer @ Sysdig Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States • Designed and iterated on reporting and consolidated dashboards to enhance data visualization. • Revamped and streamlined design system for improved consistency and efficiency in collaboration with cross-functional teams. ### Product Designer @ Thruline Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area - Led the end-to-end design of a Demand Planner for inventory management, from ideation to delivering the final specifications, as the sole product designer in collaboration with the CEO and CFO. - Established design system based on the existing product, enhancing systematic user experience improvement and leveraging foundational design elements. - Overhauled the product’s website and landing page to boost user engagement by an estimated 21%, aligning closely with evolving brand strategy. ### Senior Designer @ SWA Group Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area - Led and supported the design of memorable outdoor experiences for diverse user groups internationally. - Conducted research, design workshop, delivered milestones, and gave/supported presentation to clients or stakeholders for various domestic and international projects. ### Project Designer @ SWA Group Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 ### Product Designer @ Soca Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 - Drove the design of key features resulting in the successful launch of an innovative interview tool, reward system, and a user-friendly mobile web platform - Initiated and executed a comprehensive design system from the ground up, including over 200 responsive components, with continuous management. - Collaborated effectively with cross-functional teams including project managers and engineers to ensure seamless quality assurance. ### Product Designer @ Hapybara Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 - Drove the first MVP of the mobile web product from sketch to launch. - Collaborated closely with the founder, a UX researcher and a developer. ### Product Designer - Pickle @ Springboard Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Remote - Collaborated with the design team and UX researcher and designed the homepage experience for the zoom application. - Create and validate designs through sketching, frameworks, prototypes, and testings. - owned the design for the staff mode dashboard. ### Reapal - Product Design Practice @ Springboard Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote A complete design process from user research to prototyping and testing ### Teaching Assistant @ University of Pennsylvania Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Teaching Assistant for Media III & Media IV ### Summer Internship @ Tom Leader Studio Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Berkeley, CA ### Intern Landscape Architect @ FRC Design Ltd Guangzhou Branch Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Guangzhou, Guangdong, China Project: The conceptual landscape design of Jia Riverfront Schematic Design, Drafting ### Summer Internship @ CCI Architecture Design & Consulting Co. Ltd Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | China Project: Guangdong Experimental Nanhai School in Foshan Preliminary Study, Drafting ## Education ### Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture University of Pennsylvania Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 ### Springboard UX Design Certification in UX Design Springboard Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ### Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Landscape Architecture South China University of Technology Jan 2009 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruizhaodesign - Website: www.ruizhao.design --- Source: https://flows.cv/ruizhao JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ruizhao/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-07