# Will Su > Product Designer - Data Visualization at Datadog Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/willsu1 Will Su is a Product Designer at Datadog. His work focuses on presenting data efficiently and beautifully with fluid interactivity. Will’s work has been exhibited worldwide, notably at the IEEE VIS 2019, Vancouver; Columbia University, New York; New York Public Library, New York; Information is Beautiful 2018, London, Technologie Stiftung, Berlin; HKBU, Hong Kong and Indiana University, Bloomington. ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer - Data Visualization @ Datadog Jan 2023 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area ### Product Designer - Data Visualization @ Datadog Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | New York City Metropolitan Area ### Product Designer/Front End Engineer @ Dropbox Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area • Led the product design and front-end engineering effort on multiple projects ranging from improving Dropbox’s renewal/retention rate to informing sales executives through machine learning intelligence. • Delivered a scalable automation product that reduced 80% of Customer Success Manager’s time on quarterly business report, and various client-facing presentation materials. • Conducted user research on topics such as Business Development Representative work remodeling/modernization, Enterprise renewal explorer, and team deployment insights. ### Consultant, Data Visualization @ United Nations Global Compact Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area • Led the Annual survey visualization development. • Project repo: https://github.com/unglobalcompact/ungc-survey ### Guest Lecturer @ 香港浸会大学 Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Hong Kong • Lectured on the transition from a traditional graphic designer to a data visualization specialist within a limited amount of time. • Talked about the exciting process of visualizing data, as well as some of the common questions and obstacles newcomers may face, how to overcome them, and progressively acquaint themselves with the work-flow of a web-based data visualization storytelling piece. ### Teaching Assistant @ Parsons School of Design - The New School Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area • MS Data Visualization Major Studio 01. Taught by Daniel Sauter. • Assisted teaching staff in preparing the classroom and lesson plans. • Served as guidance for students in the class when help was needed. • Assisted individual students and took notice of students’ individual learning styles. ### Tutor Specialist @ Parsons School of Design - The New School Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area • MS Data Visualization Data Structures. Taught by Aaron Hill. • Mentored 20+ students under professor’s supervision and guidance (1:1 office hour) in coding assignments as well as the direction of core course projects. • Provided testing and debugging assistance with students in the classroom and office hours on D3.js, NodeJS and MongoDB. ### Intern, Data Visualization Engineer @ Viacom Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | 1515 Broadway, New York, NY • Collaborated with engineers and data scientists to build data-driven products using D3.js, Bootstrap and Flask RESTful API of Python that enable the company to make better executive decisions through engineered intelligence. • Translated low-fidelity business concepts & predictions from machine learning models to high-fidelity, aesthetically pleasing, data-driven SPAs (Single-Page Web App)/dashboards that draw stakeholder's attention at the beginning of the project. • Developed the rapid prototyping for stakeholder presentations and working sessions. • Implemented several front-end multidimensional data visualization components that merges into productionized SPA. ### Intern, Designer @ Ogilvy Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Beijing City, China • Consulted marketing campaigns and developed presentation deck for several clients, including UPS China, Caterpillar, CargoLux and One Foundation. • Created infographics, static data visualizations and motion graphics for UPS China’s official Weibo/ WeChat account. •Produced main visual contents for UPS’s F1 campaign and boosted 1.2 million KPI in social media views and comments. ## Education ### Master of Science (M.S.) in Data visualization Parsons School of Design - The New School Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 ### Bachelor of Fine Arts (BA) in Visual Communication Design Beijing Normal University Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/will-su - Portfolio: http://willsu.io --- Source: https://flows.cv/willsu1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/willsu1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30