# Vivian Lee > Senior Product Designer | Enterprise AI & Agents | Design Strategy MBA Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/vivianlee ## Work Experience ### Sr. Product Designer, Payroll @ Workday Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Currently designing AI-powered workflows as the UX Lead for Workday's Payroll Agent. I was chosen to be the company representative of our Research, Analytics, and Design organization at the 2025 Grace Hopper Celebration, sharing back several strategies around how we can build more inclusive AI experiences at Workday. I also was a Spring 2023 mentor for Diversify by Design through Workday's partnership with SFSU. ### Product Designer III, Cross-Product Initiatives @ Workday Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area As part of Workday's new Engage Initiative, I led the desktop designs for connecting the Benefits & Pay experience. ### Product Designer III, Financials @ Workday Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area In 2021, I helped redesign Workday Expenses for mobile and desktop. Focusing on the casual user experience, our main goals were to leverage intelligent automation to reduce the time spent manually assembling expenses during their already busy day. My role on Expenses included: • Conducting early competitive research to help define our project goals and strategy • Planning a workshop to identify business-critical moments of the expenses experience • Presenting designs to key stakeholders, such as the Chief Design Officer and VP of Design • Collaborating with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand product requirements while simplifying the end-to-end experience on mobile and desktop ### Product Designer II, Financials @ Workday Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 In 2018, I was the design lead for Journal Insights, an ML-powered anomaly detection tool that aims to reduce the numbers of days to close out the books. My role on Journal Insights included: • Participating in discovery research, such as interviewing accountants and planning customer visits • Planning and facilitating a problem statement workshop with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders • Creating storyboards to illustrate the future of machine learning in period end close • Working with product management, engineering, and A11Y to iterate on the end-to-end prototype for our anomaly detection tool • Presenting our design work regularly to the VP of Financials and EVP of Product & Technology On the side, I partnered with our onboarding team to lead design-thinking workshops for 200+ new hires, including incoming product managers, engineers, and sales consultants. ### Product Designer I, Financials @ Workday Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 From 2017 through 2018, I was a designer on Workforce Planning before our eventual acquisition of Adaptive Insights. My role on on Workforce Planning included: • Organizing a 2-day customer summit with 18 participants from companies such as Vanguard, Airbus, Netflix, and Zynga - where our team ran participatory design activities including affinity diagramming, POV statements, and Crazy 8's • Working with a senior designer and researcher to create several journey maps highlighting every step of the workforce planning experience - from starting point to execution • Prototyping several flows for scenario-based org modeling using Sketch and InVision During this time, I also worked on several features in the Professional Services Automation space, such as an interactive calendar for viewing worker availability. On the side, I represented our UX team at recruitment events in campuses such as UC Berkeley and UCLA. ### MBA Consultant @ X, the moonshot factory Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States I collaborated with 4 other MBA students and a project team at X (Google's Moonshot Factory) on a mission to address bias in decision-making through AI innovation. Our team conceptualized an AI model trained on intersectional data that would aim to achieve 10x impact in reducing systematic bias, with our team delivering a comprehensive pitch deck, marketing page design, and storyboards focused on promoting equitable AI outcomes at scale. ### MBA Consultant @ Intuit Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 In a team of 4 other MBA students, I partnered with Intuit’s Design Ops team to address the company's global transition to hybrid work. Our team developed a work-sharing system for 400+ designers, with a pilot run scheduled for Q3 2023. ### Accelerator Participant - mystartupXX 2017B (SP17) @ University of California, San Diego - Rady School of Management Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Diego, CA The mystartupXX program is a one-of-its-kind accelerator that was created to increase and encourage diversity in entrepreneurship. • Attended workshops focused on various aspects of launching startups - team building, leadership, performing a market assessment and obtaining customers' feedback, creating a value proposition, validating business models, and understanding financing strategies needed to launch the business. • Partnered with an industry mentor and met regularly with our advisors to monitor progress. ### Product Design Intern @ Workday Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Pleasanton, CA On the UX Tools team, collaborated directly with PMs and developers on four projects, one of which is already implemented in Workday’s library. • Worked directly with a PM and dev intern to scope wireframes and high-fidelity designs for a complex waterfall data visualization using Sketch • Collaborated with designers, developers, and managers from the Financials team to design and test an interactive calculator for real-time data analysis • Prototyped over 10+ interactions for a Workday application on Android Watch • Worked with a PM and developer to design several animations and workflows for the integration of Google Nearby on mobile Android devices ### Design Researcher @ The Design Lab Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | La Jolla, California Worked with a small team of students on the BrainBuilder project, an intelligence building app for kids that adapts to their interests and parent's learning goals. • Documented violations of heuristic design principles for most recent mobile prototype • Performed competitive analysis of similar applications on the market and compiled detailed secondary research on games, children, and motivation • Developed user testing protocol to receive feedback through task-based usability testing and focus groups • Completed several customer journey maps of the user experience from our findings in user testing ### UX Design Intern @ Learning Equality Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 As part of the UX team for Kolibri, redesigned the coach report dashboard to help teachers define clear, quantifiable opportunities for student engagement and better inform blended classroom instruction. • Developed internal interview protocol for seeking feedback from KA Lite's end users all around the world • Independently reached out to connections via e-mail and remotely conducted user interviews with international partners over Google Hangouts • Coded resulting video and discussion notes into shared Google document • Created user personas and scenarios based on findings from remote and local interviews • Designed interactive deliverables for hi-fidelity prototype of the revised dashboard and its individual modules ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Rady School of Management Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | La Jolla, California As an undergraduate research assistant, coordinated every week with the lab manager and PhD/MBA candidates from the Rady School of Management to help facilitate quality consumer research and uncover scalable business insights. • Adapted to weekly changing protocols, and helped run economic decision-making studies on over 1400+ students each quarter • Led experimental group tasks on paper and on Qualtrics, MediaLab, z-Tree • Conducted one-on-one consumer interviews with research participants regarding transaction, consumption, and guilt • Prepared data on Google Spreadsheets for proper coding and entry ## Education ### Master of Business Administration - MBA in Design Strategy California College of the Arts Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 ### d.MBA Jan 2021 ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Cognitive Science (specialization in Human-Computer Interaction) UC San Diego Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/designervivianlee --- Source: https://flows.cv/vivianlee JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/vivianlee/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30