# Ryo Lu > Head of Design at Cursor Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ryo A toolmaker. https://ryo.lu ## Work Experience ### Head of Design @ Cursor Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Crafting Cursor—the best AI tool to turn ideas into reality with code. ### Founding Designer, Product, Design Lead @ Notion Jan 2019 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, CA, United States An all-in-one tool for individuals and teams of any size. Now with AI. ### Product Designer @ Stripe Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California Founding designer on the new Stripe Checkout, Stripe Terminal, Stripe API references, and stripe.dev developer experiences. ### Product Designer @ Asana Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Led mobile projects, reimagined Notifications for cross-channel use. Integrated Asana with Slack, Outlook, and Gmail. Shaped Asana's two-year plan with the co-founder, boosting core navigation and usability. ### Head of Design @ Ping++ Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Shanghai City, China Ping++ is a top multi-channel payments startup in China. I lead a team of 4 designers and 1 front-end developer. I revamped our product marketing, brand strategy, and visual identity, and I redesigned and developed multiple sites including landing pages, products, support, and documentation. I also created a comprehensive design system with unified visuals, interaction patterns, Angular 2 UI components, and integrated it into our development tools. I spearheaded the design for Dashboard, Analytics, and Targeted Ads products. ### Head of Product and Design @ Pluto Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | China Pluto reimagined the way language learners expand and reinforce their vocabulary through games. I lead our initial market and user research, worked on branding, product prototyping, interaction and visual design, and built iOS layouts. ### Design Co-Founder @ SchedulingDirect Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Montreal, Canada Area SchedulingDirect provides apps for staff scheduling and attendance in retail. I was the sole designer for product, visuals and interactions. I lead product development, and implemented the UI and front-end features with the engineering team. I designed the company’s brand system, landing and on-boarding experience to effectively communicate our strengths, raise conversion and increase engagement. ### Software Developer @ Ericsson Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Montreal, Canada Area I designed and built a live dashboard to visualize the health of network node equipments, perform on-demand live health checks, built on Node and Angular. I maintained and developed new features for an internal third-party contract management tool in C#. I improved information hierarchy and designs for an internal troubleshooting site and knowledge base. ### Software Developer @ Autodesk Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Montreal, Canada Area Part of the Agile DevOps team for Project Pinocchio, now launched as Autodesk Character Generator, I worked on front-end development in HTML5 and C#. I designed and developed an admin site for the project, and a set of reusable components for data visualization using D3 and Backbone. I received cloud computing training on AWS, REST API design and Node.js development. ### Co-founder @ MacIdea.com (subsidiary of Shanghai Visionsoar Tech Co. Ltd) Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 I started, designed and developed one of the fastest-growing Apple online community in China, with over 400,000 registered users, 30,000 daily visitors and over million page views each month. http://www.macidea.com ## Education ### B. Sc in Computer Science and Biology McGill University ### DEC in Health Science Marianopolis College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ryo-lu-7060b534 - Portfolio: https://ryo.lu --- Source: https://flows.cv/ryo JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ryo/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13