# Yuko Takahashi > Product Design Leader Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/yuko I am a design leader with over 15 years of experience in the digital industry. I love working with passionate, smart, fun people and bringing them together to make some killer products. While great user experience is about designing intuitive, delightful things for our users, the best experiences come from folks who can build, dream big and play nice together. I used to live in user flows and wireframes, user research and interviews and digging deep into complex design problems. Now I find myself in a leadership role, helping designers reach their full potential and helping teams build products they love. ## Work Experience ### Product Design @ GameChanger Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Product Design Manager @ Maven Clinic Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area At Maven Clinic, I led a team of product designers in shaping the design vision and strategy for core member experiences across maternity, fertility, and menopause programs on both web and mobile platforms. Partnering closely with cross-functional teams, I ensured design initiatives aligned with product roadmaps and broader strategic goals. Additionally, I streamlined design processes to improve team efficiency and operational effectiveness, fostering a more scalable and impactful design practice. ### Senior Manager, Product Design @ MasterClass Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area As the design manager for web, mobile, and TV platforms at MasterClass, I oversaw a team of six product designers, guiding the design strategy and execution. Collaborating with Product and Engineering leadership, I played a key role in defining product roadmaps and delivering user-centric solutions. My work focused on enhancing content discovery, improving core content consumption, exploring new content formats, and developing learning support tools to elevate the overall user experience. ### Design Manager @ Coursera Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, CA Managed three designers for the core learning experience, including assessment and learning support tools. Partnered with Product and Engineering on quarterly roadmap planning, improving product development processes as well as the company’s three year product vision. ### Product Designer @ Coursera Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, California ### Design, LinkedIn Learning @ LinkedIn Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California At LinkedIn Learning, I worked on the consumer side of the business as a lead for learning experience. Our goal was to bring interactivity to the product via learning supports including assessments (for example quizzes and practice exams), practice tools and social learning. I worked closely with product partners, content team, instructional designers, engineers as well as other product designers across the organization. ### Senior User Experience Designer @ lynda.com Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, California Working on the Learning Experience team, our goal was to bring interactive experiences to online learning. I collaborated closely with engineers, front-end developers, product managers and fellow designers to bring a better experience to our members. Some of the features we incubated included a note-taking tool, assessments, a practice window for coding, and playlists. My day-to-day included wireframing, competitive research, user testing, and visual design. ### Senior User Experience Designer @ SAY Media Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco I work on large scale sites across multiple devices (desktop, mobile and tablet) on the company's award winning content management platform. Some of my responsibilities include: wireframing and prototyping, visual and interaction designs, user testing, design implementation with HTML and CSS, and managing other user experience designers. Primarily, I work with engineers, product managers and executives to produce beautiful reader experiences on our owned and operated sites such as ReadWrite.com, xoJane.com, xoVain.com, Dogster and Catster, and other exclusive partner sites, like Cupcakes and Cashmere. I also work with our application teams developing wireframes, user interfaces and best practices for our internal business tools. ### Creative Lead @ Dogster, Inc. Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 Provided overall creative direction for Dogster.com and Catster.com and "products" for the sites (blogs, stand-alone contests and other related sites [e.g. dogster media site], emails, newsletters, and sales campaigns), focusing on simple, elegant designs and user friendliness. Worked with Senior Management to identify opportunities for new product features, site enhancements and ensured designs reflected the company vision and business goals. Worked in collaboration with product managers, sales, engineering, editorial teams and vendors. ### UI/Interactive Designer @ Dogster, Inc. Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 Designing UI and implementation of contest pages, interactive games and microsites; designing and implementing HTML emails and weekly newsletters; working directly with engineers on site features, enhancements and updates; testing and QA of new site features ### Graphic Designer @ Polimetrix Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 Responsible for company's design and production of: User interface of company's online surveys (viewed by over a million panelists) including any graphics needed for new survey widgets; User interface for internal software developed to script surveys; HTML emails and web banner advertisements to recruit more panelists; Marketing materials, product sheets, and PowerPoint presentations ### UI Designer @ Vantage Technologies/Vantage Partners Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 Developed user interface designs for Web-based software using HTML and CSS; designed and produced software user manuals, marketing materials and case studies; interviewed analysts and created specification documents for new features of software. ### Graphic Designer @ Vantage Partners Jan 2001 – Jan 2004 Designed and produced marketing materials, presentations, white papers, customized workshop binders, and invitations; oversaw work of part-time and freelance designers, and trained new employees; obtained competitive pricing estimates and worked with printers. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science in Art History University of Pennsylvania ### Continuing Education in Graphic Design University of the Arts ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yuko-takahashi-59a25b2 --- Source: https://flows.cv/yuko JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yuko/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13