Yike Wang
Product design lead with 12+ years building AI products and enterprise platforms, from 0→1 to global scale.
Experience
Staff Product Designer
LinkedIn · Mountain View, CA
- Leading design of LinkedIn's first AI-powered sales agent with a team of 5, drove Beta turnaround with 2x retention improvement and defined north star vision shifting from human-led workflows to deeply integrated AI autonomy.
- Piloting AI-powered design workflows, building agents and skills that enable designers to write code, build UI components, and run experiments, shaping how the design org operates in an AI-first world.
Staff Product Designer, GenAI
Meta · Menlo Park, CA
- Led AI content transparency design with a team of 12, defining labeling frameworks and UX behaviors for AI-generated content across the Meta ecosystem, aligned C-level stakeholders, now fully deployed at scale.
- Led response safety frameworks and mistake UI toolkit, reducing false refusals from 8.5% to 2.1%, now foundational to Meta AI's 1B+ monthly users.
Staff Product Designer, Monetization (Ads)
Meta · Menlo Park, CA
- Led 0→1 launch of Meta Verified for Business, Meta's first subscription product, and scaled to 1M subscribers across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
- Led Ads Flex Strategy, a foundational effort to transform Ads Manager from a one-size-fits-all product to a personalized platform through Advertiser Profiles, enabling targeted automation and recommendations across millions of advertisers.
- Led ads reporting strategy to rebuild advertiser confidence amid GDPR and signal loss, aligning on a north star and launch plan with senior leadership.
Founding Product Designer
Pixie.ai · San Francisco, CA
Solo designer on a 9-engineer team, building the product from 0→1. Led MVP to focus on developer tools based on customer interviews and competitive research, resulting in a successful acquisition by New Relic.
Lead User Experience Designer
ThousandEyes · San Francisco, CA
Led design for ThousandEyes' network intelligence platform supporting a team of 3, established the first design system, and drove network path visualization and data analytics powering the product's core observability experience.
User Experience Designer
Cisco · San Jose, CA
Led end-to-end design for Cisco's Virtual Managed Services suite, supporting cloud service delivery for enterprise customers.
Junior Programmer
Ubisoft · Shanghai, China
Contributed to game engine development for the Far Cry series.
Skills
Strategy
- Product strategy
- Roadmapping
- XFN & x-org collaboration
- Stakeholder management
- Growth experiments
Design
- Branding
- Comparative analysis
- Data visualization
- Design system
- Information architecture
- Personas
- Storytelling
- Usability testing
- User interviews
- UX/UI
AI
- AI agent design and deployment
- Prompt engineering
- AI-assisted coding (Cursor, Claude Code)
Design Tools
- Figma
- Final Cut
- Framer
- Lightroom
- Photoshop
Frontend
- D3.js
- HTML/CSS
- JavaScript
- React
Education
MS in Information, Specialization in Human Computer Interaction
University of Michigan
BS in Software Engineering
Tongji University
Digital Marketing Certification
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Let's talk
Open to staff &
principal roles.
If you're building something exciting and believe design can make a difference, let's talk!