Yike Wang

Yike Wang

Product design lead with 12+ years building AI products and enterprise platforms, from 0→1 to global scale.

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Experience

Staff Product Designer

LinkedIn · Mountain View, CA

2025 — Present
  • 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

2024 — 2025
  • 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

2019 — 2023
  • 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

2018 — 2019

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

2017 — 2018

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

2015 — 2017

Led end-to-end design for Cisco's Virtual Managed Services suite, supporting cloud service delivery for enterprise customers.

Junior Programmer

Ubisoft · Shanghai, China

2011

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

2015 · Ann Arbor, MI

BS in Software Engineering

Tongji University

2012 · Shanghai, China

Digital Marketing Certification

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2018 · Online

Let's talk

Open to staff &
principal roles.

If you're building something exciting and believe design can make a difference, let's talk!