# Sang Y.

> Builder / Designer - Product design @ Foursquare

Location: Orinda, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sangy

I build things.

## Work Experience
### Principal Product Designer @ Foursquare
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Head of Product Design @ thirdweb
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Defined and executed a design strategy aligned with the company's vision. 
- Measured product design success using the HEART metrics. 
- Provided leadership and mentorship to the design team to foster creativity and collaboration. 
- Contributed to the overall product and design direction.

### Head of UX, Sr. Manager @ PayPal
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
- Responsible for owning UX functions for PayPal’s Happy Returns business unit, including managing UX designers.
- Collaborated with leaders across Product, Engineering, Operations, and Marketing to align UX toward company OKRs.
- Implemented design methodologies and user experience research techniques from inception to initial stages.

### Staff, Product design @ Twilio Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Designing products for builders of all kinds. Developer Experience Org. 
- Designed and Launched Twilio Serverless products for developers - Twilio Functions, Assets, Studio, and Twiml Bins. 
- Designed and Launched Twilio monitoring products Error Logs and Alarms.

### Principal UX Designer @ Infusionsoft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
- R&D - Platform Products
- Responsible for designing onboarding and free trial experiences. Designed and launched onboarding experience.

### User Experience Design Manager @ SAP
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, California
- Managing a team of 22 UX designers 
- Work with product owners across the businesses
- Coach, mentor, lead and provide career guidance and development for a large group of designers

### Director of Design @ Complete Solar
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Mateo, CA
- Working directly with the CEO and software engineers on the company’s high-priority projects
- Led the end-to-end product design process for all Complete Solar Products from concept to pixel-perfect implementation, including site mapping, wireframing, prototyping, interaction, and visual design

Designed include: HelioQuote, HelioTrack, Sales Dashboard, HelioCad,
OPF - Task managing tool, Completesolar.com, Inside Sales Dashboard, CRM scheduler, etc.

### Lead Designer @ Complete Solar
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Foster City, CA
- Responsible for designs of all the products
- Push the boundaries of UX/UI/visual execution
	Oversaw all levels of prototypes and wireframes through final specifications, 
	documenting, UI behaviors and models, workflow, interaction requirements, 
	and brand expression.
- Working with software engineers on the company’s high-priority projects
- Taking charge of the company’s visual identity
- Drive all inbound and outbound marketing assets, website, print/offline designs

### Graphic Design Manager @ Z-Line Designs, Inc
Jan 2005 – Jan 2014 | San Ramon, CA
Report directly to key Executive team members, including the CEO, President, and SVP of Marketing, to help clarify their vision and accurately target their audience and objectives with each project. 

Entrusted to develop and maintain the company Graphic Style Guide to enforce the integrity and consistency of the Brand and all its graphic applications, from the website, print ads, brochures, and POS to identity campaigns, events, and beyond.

Create aesthetically graphic solutions that often need to communicate to multiple audiences at once.

Provided Art direction and support to internal team members and external vendors, who collectively contributed to the finished product.

Managed a design team contributing to all the projects for the company

### Teaching Assistant @ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Jan 2002 – Jan 2003 | Boston, MA
Teaching Assistant in undergraduate Graphic Design classes
- Publication Design
- Print Matter 
- Beginning Graphic Design


## Education
### MFA in Design
California College of the Arts

### BFA in Text and Image Arts - Graphic Design
Tufts University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sangyeo
- Portfolio: https://sangster.vercel.app/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13