# Yi Zhang

> Senior Product Designer at VMware

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yizhang

A designer passionate about solving complex problems for individuals.
A gamer dedicated to creating immersive gaming experiences.
A trainer committed to supporting the community and conquering challenges.

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Designer @ VMware
Jan 2023 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States
• Designing unified commerce experience;
• Leading design for vSphere+;
• Provided mentorship to fellow designers, facilitating their success in driving innovative concepts;

### Product Designer III @ VMware
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States
• Led the free trial task force to unify the trial experiences across the VMware product portfolio;
• Led the design of commerce for vSphere+;
• Created the first accessibility guideline for motion design;

### Product Designer II @ VMware
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States
• Led end-to-end design of the free trial, infrastructure operations for vSphere+ from 0 to 1;
• Led and scaled the design of the cloud gateway to support the SaaS transformation for core products;
• Co-founded the first motion design repository and motion accessibility guidelines;
• Led the initial planning for the Design Borathon and was nominated for the Office of CTO awards.

### User Experience Designer @ Poynt by GoDaddy
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, California, United States
• Led the first risk case management for prospective PayFac merchants and reseller portal pricing plan;
• Worked on various merchant-facing products including merchant onboarding flow, customer checkout 
   experience, Poynt tutorials, installments, invoicing email flow, chatbot, receipt, reporting;
• Led hardware-related projects including low battery mode, core apps/payment fragment 
   redesign, quick start guides;
• Created motion design and illustrations to empower experience.

### Data Design Engineering Intern @ United Nations
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | New York, New York, United States
• Created new data visualization for the life cycle of all the collections;
• Created videos for UN Career, Department of Management.

### Product UI & UX Design Intern @ SEVENROOMS
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | New York, New York, United States
• Worked on mobile/web version dining/night life booking widgets for hospitality users;
• Worked on icon library and created interaction animations for web assets;
• Customized floorplans for the all the restaurant clients;

### UI Design Intern @ Mokuni LLC
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Queens, New York, United States
• Created UI for 'Kitty in the box 2' and featured by app store;
• Created UI for 'Albert & Otto' (Mobile version) and featured by app store;


## Education
### Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Computer Art
School of Visual Arts

### Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects
Jiangsu University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yizhang126

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Source: https://flows.cv/yizhang
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yizhang/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-13