# Yang Cheng

> Product Designer at WRITER

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

Hello! I'm Yang, a software designer based in 📍 NYC. With a background in human-computer interaction, analytics, and academic research, I have spent the last 4 years tackling complex problems and developing creative solutions. I pride myself on end-to-end ownership of products from 💡 discovery, 🎨design to 🤖 code.

## Work Experience
### Product Designer @ WRITER
Jan 2026 – Present | New York, NY

### Senior Product Designer @ Messari
Jan 2022 – Jan 2026 | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Product Designer @ Kiavi
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
• Designing and iterating on a data-driven platform for real estate investors
• Leading 15+ user sessions (IDIs, contextual inquiries, and participatory design) to uncover untapped product opportunities
• Taking product end-to-end from creating personas, user flows to usability testing and building high-fi prototypes
• Collaborating with PMs, Designers and Data Scientists at Kiavi over the 8-month project to ideate and implement features

### Program Manager @ ReadyAI
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Pittsburgh Area
• Designed, built and regularly updated company’s 2 websites (see readyai.org)
• Led a 3-person startup to write and deploy a semester-long AI curriculum for a Pittsburgh high school
• Designed and coded programming projects to teach 100+ kids coding skills and AI concepts such as computer vision

### Marketing Analyst @ WeSpire
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area

### Growth Marketing Intern @ Food for All
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area

### Research Intern @ Mass General Hospital
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area

### Marketing Intern @ AFC Group
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Auckland, New Zealand

### Operations Intern @ Uber
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Beijing, China


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Human Computer Interaction
CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Cognitive and Brain Science
Tufts University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yang-cheng
- Portfolio: https://www.yangcheng.design

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Last updated: 2026-03-29