PRODUCT DESIGNER
Steve Chen
PROFILE
Product Designer with extensive experience leading product initiatives across diverse industries. Passionate about building AI-powered tools and driving real value and impact through design. Supports product growth by crafting meaningful, customer-centered experiences and collaborating across all product design and innovation stages. Energized by new technologies, mobile apps, interaction paradigms, and accessibility design.
CORE STRENGTHS
Customer-centric products and features, project leadership, cross-functional team leadership, mobile design, web design, system design, accessibility design, interaction design, visual design, mentoring and coaching, research, flowcharts, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes.
TOOLS
Figma, Figma Make, Framer, VS Code, Calude, ChatGPT, Sketch App, InVision, Zeplin, Principal, Photoshop, Illustrator, JIRA, Confluence
Meta · Menlo Park, CA (Remote) · 2020–2026
Lead / Product Designer
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INTUIT · MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA · 2017–2020
Lead / Principal Product Designer
Served as design lead for flagship initiatives focused on the Intuit Design System for QuickBooks. Projects included a full product redesign and a design system website supporting 250+ design community members. Led priority management, research, training, library creation, and adoption.
Released 52 redesigned components with 90% design-team adoption. Created a single source of truth for the QuickBooks design community, established an open contribution model, streamlined design-to-development, and championed support channels including documentation, toolkits, chat support, Office Hours, training, and workshops.
LINKEDIN · SUNNYVALE, CA · 2012–2016
Lead / UX Designer
Served as design lead and sole designer for LinkedIn’s native job search app for iOS and Android. Partnered closely with Product, Design, Development, Research, and Google teams to maintain feature parity and high communication through weekly sprints and engineering meetings.
Led design for the LinkedIn Job Search app, featured in Google Play Store in 2015 and ranked #1 in category with 10M downloads. The app became the fastest-growing application in the LinkedIn library with 3.5M monthly active users across platforms. Achieved Google Play Store Editor’s Choice in 2016 and received LinkedIn’s UED Rockstar Award.
SAMSUNG · 2017
Lead / Staff UX Designer
Led design for Samsung+, Samsung Electronics’ all-encompassing customer support app on Android. Partnered closely with leadership and project managers while mentoring designers on craft, workflows, and best practices.
Guided product direction, supported Android platform design quality, and trained designers across core product workflows.
ANCHORFREE · 2013–2014
Lead / Senior UX Designer
Led design initiatives for Hotspot Shield VPN products across desktop and mobile. Collaborated with Product and Engineering teams and shipped experiences across iOS, Android, websites, landing pages, microsites, marketing interstitials, and Windows/Mac apps.
TANGO.ME · 2012–2013
UX / Visual Designer
Led product design for Tango app features across iOS and Android for a social messaging platform with 300M+ users. Helped define new design language patterns and components across platforms while training and mentoring designers.
Championed Address Book Import, onboarding, and video content sharing features. Streamlined production workflows including speccing and asset import.
SHMOOP · 2012
Lead Designer
Led designs for educational websites, applications, and microsites. Partnered with the CEO and project leads to define a site redesign and worked closely with development to determine the optimal production path.
ISSIO SOLUTIONS · 2011–2012
Lead Designer
Served as lead designer for Issio EMR across iOS and web, designing end-to-end experiences for account managers, doctors, staff, and patients. Worked with executives on partnership proposals and created UI patterns and components through rapid user-informed iterations.
STEVENPIXELS.COM · 2007–2012
Freelance Designer
Led design efforts for diverse client projects across e-commerce, social media, retail, informational, and non-profit experiences. Researched and created flowcharts, wireframes, and mockups while communicating efficiently with stakeholders.