# Yousef Kazerooni > Product designer at Northern Trust ( via TEKsystems) Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/yousefkazerooni From Global Warming and climate crisis, to disinformation campaigns and social inequality, all I see around us are opportunities for businesses, regardless of industry, to bring people together and tackle meaningful issues. When I join a team, I bring an open-mind and a commitment to internal and cross-functional collaboration. Never has it been more important for designers to contribute to their organizations not only with their craft (i.e, Research, UX, Interaction design, etc), but also with their ability to build empathy and facilitate conversations toward a unifying goal. www.yousefkazerooni.com ## Work Experience ### Lead Product Designer @ Northern Trust Corporation Jan 2022 – Present | Chicago, Illinois, United States - Lead the design and research efforts for a financial platform targeting institutional users working on mobile and desktop. - Own design of institutional wealth management workflows, translating complex operational and compliance requirements into usable product experiences. ### Senior Product Designer @ Northern Trust Corporation Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 - Collaborate with the design system’s team and developers to ensure accessibility, proper implementation of patterns, and contribute new patterns. - Collaborate with the PM on requirement gathering for new features, and design and test solutions ### Product Designer @ Northern Trust Corporation Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Product designer at Northern Trust ( via TEKsystems) - Held workshops to allow a cross-functional team of internal stakeholders share and realign their understanding of platform concepts. - Led and implemented multiple rounds of research by aligning stakeholders over goals and questions, recruiting participants, and running the research. - Supported the launch of a mobile product and the post-launch design work and testing. ### Product designer @ Climate Data Hub Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Product Designer @ Dynata Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Dynata is the leading platform in providing survey respondents, and creating surveys to aid with Market Research. My role: - Established a governance process for Dynata’s design system to reduce inefficiencies and accelerate the speed of production. - Collaborated with the PM on the definition and documentation phase of Dynata’s new product for on demand market research. - Helped illustrate the multidimensionality of the problem at hand and the necessity of having a simple unified solution to help users with learnability and establishing a market edge. - Led the end to end design process of DIY Market research solutions, including problem definition, competitive analysis, user story mapping, prototyping, and conducting usability testing - Facilitated meetings and workshops along cross functional teams to bring alignment and visibility into the process ### Product Designer @ Indi Young Adv Training for Problem Space Research Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Indi's pioneering approach to problem space research has allowed a deeper look into people's needs and motivations. My role: - Collaborated in a distributed, cross-functional team. - Led the creation and execution of a website redesign strategy, where every effort was tied to specific - -business objectives. - Created personas & gathered business objectives based on stakeholder interviews, user studies, and a competitive analysis of the consulting field. - Assisted with improving the workflow of online workshop series, - Rendered data visualizations and illustrated lessons. ### Product Designer @ Cerebra LLC Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area The dedicated team at Cerebra strives to improve the lives of IT Administrators. My role: - Led the design at Cerebra both for product development and marketing. - Created timelines and facilitated meetings and collaboration sessions. - Secured the services of startup mentors and brought resources to the team. - Charted out the major interaction flows based on user studies and competitive-analysis, and created and tested interactive designs. - Helped fine-tune Cerebra’s messaging and positioning. Rebranding: https://www.yousefkazerooni.com/cerebra-rebranding Console development: https://www.yousefkazerooni.com/cerebraconsole ### Product Designer @ roqo Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Here is a case study of my work with ColorStash: https://medium.com/@YousefKazerooni/chronicles-of-a-design-project-8f5e5379b264 ### User Experience Designer @ The Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern Pennsylvania Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Pittsburgh Area Researched, designed, and prototyped an app that helps instill the habit of mentoring. This was an eight-month project for The Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern PA (TMP). ### UX Designer @ HiveWire Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Toronto, Canada Area -Worked under the direct supervision of the CEO -Incorporated storytelling into platform development. -Collaborated on creating a new product for Economic Developers. -Created wireframes, and developed content. -Researched and made recommendations about luxury and loyalty on the web. ### French Technical Translator (Volunteer) @ Dokotoro Project ( Peace Corps Affiliate) Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area Dokotoro project is an effort to make "Where there are no doctors" health manual accessible in Africa by updating its French version, and also translating it into Bambara. - Translated medical text into French. - Managed a group of two translators to ensure on time delivery. - Considered and incorporated localization in the translation of the manual. ### Farsi Instructor @ Freelance Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 -Facilitate distance learning. -Apply principles of adult learning in working with students. -Incorporate the results of the newest linguistic research on Persian into each lesson. -Adapt the lessons to the level and cultural sensitivities of each student. -Summarize traditions and cultural differences in short readings. ### French & Farsi Instructor @ ABC Language School Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 ABC Language Exchange works with the top companies, schools and organizations in New York City, and San Francisco Farsi: -Developed educational curriculum for Farsi instruction -Incorporated conversational and writing principles in every lesson -Explained complex grammatical concepts in a straight-forward way -Prepared Youtube videos to assist students in learning the pronunciation and overcome the writing barrier French: -Tailored existing curriculum for French instruction -Applied principles of adult learning in working with students -Utilized visuals to facilitate comprehension and memorization ### Assistant to Professor of Persian @ Saint-Petersburg State University Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 -Clarified linguistic ambiguities in the readings and audio files -Researched and gathered reading material adequate for students’ level of competency -Encouraged student participation in group activities ### Editor @ Es Werde Licht Undergraduate Newspaper Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | UC Berkeley -Collaborated with a team of writers and editors. -Authored a biweekly column -Incorporated story telling principles to catch the audience’s attention -Identified adequate learning material for German students, and present them in short articles -Advertised the newspaper to the student body by participating in different events and going to classrooms. ### Technical Translator ( Volunteer) @ Doktoro Project (Peace Corps Affiliate) Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area Doktoro Project was an effort to translate "Where there are no doctors" health manual into Bamabara. But for that to happen, first the version had to be updated. - Translated a technical text into French. - Managed a group of two translators. - Considered cultural and regional sensitivities when translating terms. ### Assistant to Professor of Farsi @ Free University of Berlin Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Berlin, Germany -Conducted research on spoken Persian and the use of compound verbs -Detected linguistic issues that students face in the class -Prepared study material to assist students in overcoming the challenges faced in class -Prepared and taught spoken Farsi lessons in German -Adjusted the lessons to the needs of German students. ### Tutor for French and Russian @ City College of San Francisco, Learning Assistance Center. Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 -Tutored students to acquire grammar comprehension -Assisted students from diverse backgrounds in overcoming personal barriers -Assisted Learning Assistance Center in marketing its services to the student community ### French Instructor @ Kish Institute of Languages Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 Kish Institute is one of the most renowned language centers in Iran established in the 1360s with few branches; but now it has 29 branches in Tehran as well as tens scattered in the country. -Taught existing curriculum -Focused on developing conversational skills ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Human Computer Interaction Carnegie Mellon University ### 12 Week Bootcamp in iOS Programming in Swift CodePath ### Computer Programming C++ City College of San Francisco ### Bachelor's Degree in Russian Language and Political History Saint Petersburg State University ### Bachelor's Degree in Linguistics University of California, Berkeley ### Persian Studies Freie Universität Berlin ### Political Science and Economics Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ### AA in Social and Behavioral Sciences City College of San Francisco ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yousef-kazerooni - Website: https://bit.ly/2ZkWb1a - Website: https://www.yousefkazerooni.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/yousefkazerooni JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yousefkazerooni/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-08