# Yingshan Wu > Product Design Leader Driving AI Platforms and Cross-Product Experience Strategy Location: Santa Clara, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/yingshan Lead design with 10+ years of experience driving UX strategy, multi-product platform alignment, and cross-functional collaboration across AI, data analytics, and enterprise security products. Proven track record mentoring designers, scaling design processes, and partnering with product and engineering leadership to deliver measurable business and customer impact. Experienced in guiding design vision from strategy through execution while elevating organizational design maturity and operational efficiency. ## Work Experience ### Senior Staff UX Designer @ Palo Alto Networks Jan 2025 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States Lead UX strategy and cross-product design initiatives for Strata Cloud Manager, with a primary focus on AI Canvas and data-driven security workflows. Act as strategic partner to product, research, and engineering leadership to shape roadmap priorities and deliver cohesive multi-release product direction across interconnected platforms. Leadership & Organizational Impact Led multi-product UX strategy across 7+ Strata Cloud Manager products, aligning design direction with business objectives and long-term platform evolution. Mentored junior and mid-level designers through design reviews, feedback cycles, and cross-team collaboration, improving design quality and independence. Established scalable design processes and standards across AI Canvas and adjacent initiatives, reducing design-to-engineering friction and accelerating feature delivery. Presented strategic design direction to executive stakeholders, influencing roadmap investments and organizational prioritization across multiple business units. Product Strategy & Business Outcomes Defined long-term UX vision for AI Canvas (Generative AI platform), enabling AI-powered workflows and new data exploration paradigms for enterprise security teams. Drove cross-functional alignment across 15+ partners (PM, Engineering, Research, Data, UI Engineering) to deliver unified platform experience strategies. Execution, Research & Decision-Making Guided end-to-end design lifecycle from concept framing to production delivery, including storyboards, workflows, wireframes, prototypes, and design guidance. Integrated research loops with UX researchers, synthesizing customer insights and usability findings into roadmap and prioritization decisions. ### Staff UX Designer @ Palo Alto Networks Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | Santa Clara, California, United States Product Portfolio & Impact AI Canvas: Achieved measurable user and business outcomes, including 49% increase in user usage intention and 53% continued AI feature adoption through iterative research and capability evolution. Modernized platform visual identity by creating new UI design system that harmonized across all Strata Cloud Manager products Pioneered AI-powered data exploration features that eliminated traditional dashboard limitations, reducing troubleshooting time for security teams Design Process & Execution Led complete design lifecycle from concept to delivery, creating comprehensive artifacts (storyboards, wireframes, prototypes, style guides) Partnered with UI engineers and product stakeholders to translate design concepts into scalable, evolving platform features Conducted and synthesized usability testing to uncover deep user insights, driving data-informed design decisions Integrated user research and customer feedback loops with UX researchers to ensure continuous product improvement ### Research/Design Graduate Assistant @ Rochester Institute of Technology Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Rochester, New York, United States Streamlined student design work organization, improving accessibility and presentation quality. Enhanced student group efficiency by providing focused management support. Strengthened RIT’s brand presence through targeted design contributions. ### UX/UI & Graphic Designer @ Rochester Institute of Technology Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Rochester, New York, United States Office: Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, College of Science. Core: Brand Strategy, Propaganda and Theme Activities. Led brand strategy, propaganda, and thematic activities. Applied UX, UI, graphic design, and 3D motion skills to build the center’s brand. RIT ASPIRE website design Center: Astrophysics and Space Physics Institute for Research Excellence ### International Student Campus Culture Ambassador @ Rochester Institute of Technology Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Rochester, New York, United States Supported the admissions office in extensive cultural outreach efforts targeting international student recruitment. ### Graduate Assistant @ Rochester Institute of Technology Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Rochester, New York, United States Course: Physical Interface Design Utilized AR/VR technologies in design applications. Conducted UX design method instruction, emphasizing research and function exploration. Guided student development in interaction, UI, and design thinking. ### UX & Digital Design Fellow Co-op @ VOX Global Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States Delivered brand creative, UX/UI design, and web design for international enterprise clients across America, Japan, and UK Contributed to public relations, social responsibility initiatives, and global marketing campaigns ### Senior UX & Motion Designer @ Dalian Wanda Group Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Beijing, China Built and led the organization’s first motion and interaction design function within one of China’s largest enterprise conglomerates. Team Leadership & Capability Development Built and managed the company’s first motion design team from the ground up, establishing operations, onboarding programs, and training curriculum. Designed and implemented designer training and mentoring programs that improved ramp-up time and capability maturity across UX, motion, and interaction design. Elevated organization-wide design culture through workshops, design reviews, and cross-department collaboration initiatives. Strategic Experience Leadership Led UX/UI and interaction initiatives across 10+ industries, including e-commerce, hospitality, entertainment, real estate, and retail. Established interaction design standards and documentation to support scalable and consistent product development. Work was recognized and archived in The Art of Interaction Design (Tsinghua University Press). ### Motion and UX Designer @ Lenovo Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Beijing, China Award-Winning Product Design Contributed to Lenovo's award-winning Aura User Interface, which received both iF Design Award and Red Dot Design Award Designed motion systems for Le-Cloud, SHAREit, SECUREit Rainbow System, Idea Centre Horizon 27 System Researched user habits and competitive products to inform design strategy Earned two national patents for innovative information processing and interaction methods Patents: One Type of Information Processing Method and Electronic Devices (CN 10442712w3 A, 2015) Information Processing Method and Terminal (CN 103870096 A, 2014) ### Visual Effects Designer & Producer @ China Car Racing News Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Beijing, China Designed the TV show effects, video edit and soundtrack. ### Senior Animation&3D Model Designer @ Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Beijing, China Designed the 3D models and in the production of 3D animation ## Education ### Master's degree in Visual Communication Design Rochester Institute of Technology ### Bachelor of Computer Science in Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia Beijing Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yingshanwu - Portfolio: http://yingshanwu.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/yingshan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yingshan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13