# Steven Yuan > Lead Product Designer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/stevenyuan Lead Product Designer with 10+ years of experience driving strategic initiatives in enterprise platforms, B2B SaaS, and DevOps optimization. My background spans product design, engineering, and product management—experiences that empower me to craft innovative, user-centric solutions and streamline complex systems. I’ve learned to hone my critical thinking skill to learn fast and excel at diving into ambiguous challenges while rapidly mastering new concepts, technologies, and market dynamics. This multifaceted perspective enables me to quickly bridge the gap between design and technical execution, foster cross-functional collaboration, and deliver products that drive both operational efficiency and customer satisfaction. I’m seeking a role in a thoughtful, forward-thinking company where I can leverage my holistic approach to drive transformative change whether that be modernizing legacy industries or innovating on nascent enterprise technologies. ## Work Experience ### Lead Product Designer @ Anrok Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Senior Product Manager, Enterprise ERP @ GrubMarket Inc. Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 • GrubMarket is a food ERP platform connecting farmers, producers, and suppliers with buyers where I led the 0-to-1 development of multi-warehouse and catch weight features. I defined the product vision and delivered a robust inventory management solution for distributed customers while collaborating with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Design, Sales, and Customer Success. • Worked on developing multi-warehouse and catch weight features that enhanced inventory management for distributed customers, • Drove a 20% increase in sales leads while securing the retention of 3 major strategic customers by aligning innovative product features with market needs. • Collaborated across Sales, Engineering, and Customer Success teams in multiple departments to ensure seamless go-lives during simultaneous legacy and new system migrations. • Implemented real-time feedback loops and iterative rollouts that reduced implementation risk by 50% and improved customer satisfaction (NPS) by 30%. ### Senior Product Manager, Internal DevOps @ Checkr, Inc. Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States • Led the overhaul of the staging environment for 100+ microservices across 30+ teams, increasing deployment frequency by 35%, reducing lead times by 25%, and cutting customer-facing incidents by 40%. • Mobilized a 20% capacity commitment from teams through a data-driven business case that positioned internal tools as a core innovation enabler. • Piloted ephemeral developer environments to achieve a 5x reduction in setup times, later transitioning to a persistent, mock-data solution to improve workflow consistency. • Developed a framework leveraging DORA metrics to measure development and maintenance overhead, enabling teams to prioritize work effectively and estimate impact. This framework supported infrastructure migrations (Kops → AWS EKS, custom secrets management → HashiCorp Vault, CloudKarafka → Confluent (Kafka)) that improved maintenance rates and reduced operational overhead. • Optimized monitoring and alerting by negotiating PagerDuty contracts and piloting OpsGenie, securing more favorable pricing for our DataDog-based monitoring setup. • Directed quarterly planning and vision casting for 8 teams (SRE, Infra, DBRE, Core Services, API Platform, UI Platform, Developer Productivity, Quality Productivity) by collaborating with engineering managers, directors, VPs, and our SVP to execute a predictable annual roadmap. ### Product Manager / Designer, Design Systems @ Checkr, Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area • Directed the migration from a legacy Angular-based design system to a modern React-based platform, reducing custom-built components by 85% and improving change lead times by 30% through a phased, low-risk rollout. • Designed and implemented a governance framework across 8 front-end teams that enhanced design consistency and scalability by 30%. • Developed a live component playground and comprehensive Storybook documentation, increasing developer adoption by 80% and strengthening collaboration between design and engineering. • Crafted and refined high-quality design system components focused on usability, accessibility, and scalability to ensure a consistent user experience across the entire product suite. • Acted as the primary product steward for the design system, shepherding its adoption organization-wide and managing customer expectations through proactive communication and tailored implementation support. ### Product Designer, Dashboard Experience @ Checkr, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area • Redesigned the main customer-facing dashboard for 3 key user personas, boosting user engagement by 25% and increasing customer satisfaction ratings by 20%. • Led ideation and rapid prototyping sessions with UX research and engineering teams to streamline design iteration cycles and accelerate time-to-market. ### Grant Advisor @ Helium Foundation Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Advise on grant projects aligning with the mission of a decentralized wireless ecosystem. This involves evaluating grant applications, providing feedback to current and prospective grantees, and working with grant program coordinators to ensure successful project outcomes. ### Program Manager, Innovation Labs @ AppDynamics Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California • Developed and implemented a design thinking framework focused on identifying high-impact problems and innovative solutions, reducing the time to validation by 30% and enhancing product-market fit. • Organized and facilitated 10+ cross-functional workshops that generated actionable insights and refined product direction. • Coordinated strategy sessions with a leadership team of 10–15, fostering strong alignment and rapid decision-making across departments. • Streamlined product development processes to improve collaboration and efficiency, laying the groundwork for scalable innovation. ### Product Designer, Architecture @ AppDynamics Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area • Collaborated with the CTO and enterprise architects on Horizon 3 initiatives to drive innovative product architecture strategies, culminating in a filed patent for performance monitoring visualization across the full application stack. • Created wireframes and prototypes through 10+ rounds of user testing to enhance usability and ensure robust performance across diverse scenarios. • Translated complex technical requirements into intuitive, data-driven interfaces using wireframes, prototypes, and D3.js visualizations, improving overall usability. • Conducted extensive user testing and refinements, resulting in clearer and more accessible product interfaces across diverse user groups. ### Full Stack Engineer, Customer Portal @ AppDynamics Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area • Developed and implemented key features for corporate and customer-facing applications using Django, resulting in significant improvements in application performance and user experience. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate design, engineering, and product requirements, consistently delivering high-quality releases on time. • Contributed to the development of scalable and efficient software solutions that ensured robust performance and long-term maintainability of the product suite. ### Visual Designer @ Evergreen Research and Marketing, LLC Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Carlsbad, CA Oversee and implement various design and marketing projects ranging from packaging design, to email marketing campaigns, to web design, to SEO, to content creation. Assists in managing outsourced web services and brand development. ### Graphic Designer @ WorldTrans Services, Inc. Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Miramar, San Diego, CA Consultant for website design and web presence for WorldTrans Services, Inc. and our clients. ## Education ### BA in Interdisciplinary Computing and Arts; Minor in Management Science UC San Diego ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/stevenyuan - Website: https://stevenyuan.me --- Source: https://flows.cv/stevenyuan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/stevenyuan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05