# SJ Zhang

> Coinbase Institutional

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sj

markets enjoyer

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer - Institutional Trading & Financing @ Coinbase
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, United States
Spot trading & Derivatives margining.
Financing for leverage, shorting, and yield strategies.

### Senior Product Designer - Institutional Financing & USDC @ Coinbase
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, United States
Prime Financing and Institutional Stablecoins.

### Advisor @ OpenEvidence
Jan 2023 – Present

### Advisor @ Synch
Jan 2023 – Present

### Design Lead @ Compound
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
Originally joined Compound as employee #2 and over my tenure helped it grow from $0 to $1.5 Billion in AUM. Today the platform manages over $4B in assets.

### Design Lead - Platform, Growth and Invest @ Compound
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
- Product co-owner of the core Net Worth product.
- PM of Organic Growth initiatives.
- Led a team of two senior designers across Product + Marketing and co-ran Design Engineering.

### Product Designer - Invest (Public Markets & Alts) @ Compound
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
- Equity and Fixed Income Asset Allocation Products and Prop-gen tools.
- Alternative Investment products offering VC Funds, Private REITs and more.
- Marketplace products integration to facilitate Tech Secondaries.

### Founding Designer @ Compound
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
- Equity holding visualization and categorization
- Cap Table Management Product integrations and visualization
- Fund Admin Product integrations for VCs and Angels
- Crypto exchanges and self-custody wallet integrations

### Venture Associate @ Republic
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
Venture and private investing for MBAs and mid-career professionals.

### Design Fellow @ Kleiner Perkins
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Spent 3 month at portfolio company Zumper. Helped interviewing applicants.

### Intern @ Sonos, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Santa Barbara, California Area
App Team. Music service integration & smart home scheduling.

### Web & Graphic Designer @ Illesteva
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
Re-platformed the website to Shopify with a redesign.

### Co-Founder @ Fashion Accessories
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
My first business in college.


## Education
### Master in Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)
New York University

### Bachelor in Design - Minor in Creative Entrepreneurship
Parsons School of Design - The New School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sj-zhang
- Portfolio: https://sj.land
- Portfolio: https://withcompound.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-29