# Simone Y. > Design & build consumer-grade SaaS products Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/simoney πŸ‘‹ Thanks for checking out my profile. I'm a seasoned product designer who has deep experience in SaaS enterprise products across healthcare, employee communication, and security & compliance fields. I'm a nerd for designing best-in-class products and design systems. I believe that purposeful design has the potential to bring significant positive change to our daily lives. I'm passionate about collaborative design efforts across teams that inspire and empower people. πŸš… πŸš™ 🌲 πŸ•οΈ πŸ₯Ύ 🍡 🍣 ## Work Experience ### Product Design Manager, Senior Manager @ Walmart Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Design Manager @ Walmart Data Ventures Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Led a complex, high-impact design revamp across a critical product domain, navigating ambiguity and team transitions. Partnered with a team of product designers to reimagine a platform experience with minimal documentation, shifting priorities, and deeply entrenched, advanced features. Despite contributor resource changes and legacy complexity, we addressed foundational usability gaps and improved core functionality β€” informed by over 800 pieces of user feedback. Collaborated cross-functionally with user research, product, engineering, and customer-facing teams to validate concepts through rigorous testing. All designs were aligned with the Walmart Data Ventures design system and phased for delivery on an aligned timeline. ### Senior Product Designer @ Secureframe Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 β€’ Leading the creation and evolution of a comprehensive design system, guaranteeing coherence and consistency across diverse product offerings. β€’ Driving the creation of design guidelines, patterns, and components, enabling faster and more efficient design and development processes. β€’ Introduced tools and processes to enhance design handoff and collaboration between designers, developers, and stakeholders, resulting in improved design quality. β€’ Proactively conducted design office hours and facilitated discussions to enhance design visibility and cultivate a thriving design culture within the company. β€’ Guided the reimagining of the Trust Center feature in a fast-paced environment, addressing usability concerns, crafting scalable design patterns, and innovating sub-features to establish distinct advantages over competitors as businesses grow. ### Senior Product Designer @ firstup.io Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area (Formerly Dynamic Signal) SocialChorus and Dynamic Signal have joined forces to become Firstup, a leader in the digital employee experience, empowering companies to put employees first by reaching, connecting, and engaging every worker, everywhere. My key contribution includes: β€’ Took the lead in creating and evolving an extensive design system that guaranteed uniformity and harmony across web and mobile. β€’ Advocate design operation by developing design principles, processes, and tools. Actively helped with hiring and team building. β€’ Led the employee experience design (modern intranet) through customer needs discovery, design sprints, and workshops with the product manager and developers. Crafted and shipped the new feed design and utility focus designs on web and mobile that led to significant user engagement and app usage. ### Senior Product Designer @ Dynamic Signal Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Product Designer @ Dynamic Signal Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 ### Senior UI Designer @ CareMessage Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 β€’ Created the first style guide and component library for the web app. β€’ Conducted user research and design sprints to uncover user needs. β€’ Led the design of patient-facing mobile app, empowering patients to seamlessly connect with their clinics while on the move. ### UI Designer @ CareMessage Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, California Led the revamp of the core web experience to create a streamlined and easy-to-understand experience for clinic staff. Elevated product look and feel through design exploration and concept testing, which established strong alignment with company’s new branding direction. Besides UI design, as a sole designer I also led the company rebrand initiative. Worked closely with founders and internal team in brand strategy. Redesigned company logo, sales decks, and marketing collaterals to boost the value of the company. ### UI UX Designer @ Bosch North America Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | palo alto, california Worked on experiment concepts exploration and demo for Bosch’s automotive augmented 3D map service. ### UI Design Intern @ Gameloft Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Greater New York City Area Participated the game development of Cars: Fast as Lightning mobile game. Helped explored visual and interaction design solutions for game transaction concepts under supervision of lead UI/UX designer and creative director. ### Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Greater Pittsburgh Region Support game art design including 3D modeling, texturing and settings design. ### Game Artist Intern @ Kno, Inc. (Intel) Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Santa Clara, CA β€’ Worked on cross-platform educational game development. β€’ Responsible for game UI design and art assets. β€’ Participated in gameplay test and contextual inquiry analysis. ## Education ### Master of Entertainment Technology in Game and Interactive Media Design Carnegie Mellon University ### BA in New Media Design Renmin University of China ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/simone-yang-design - Dribbble: https://dribbble.com/simoney --- Source: https://flows.cv/simoney JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/simoney/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25