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Yuanyi Zhou

Senior Product Designer

7+ years designing growth, enterprise, and AI products. I design AI-native, from research to shipped code.

San Francisco Bay Area yuanyizhou.me linkedin.com/in/yuanyizhou elainezhou1996@gmail.com 571-435-2347

Experience

AtomsProduct Designer

11/2025 – Present, Bay Area

OtterInventory Savings

  • Lead end-to-end design of Inventory Savings, an e-commerce marketplace that gives restaurant owners rebates on supplies, from product-led growth to the core shopping experience.
  • Grew it from an early product discovery project into one of the company’s strategic priorities within a year, driven by strong customer acquisition.

CloudKitchensFacility management

  • Design facility management tools for storage audits and storage configuration across kitchen sites.

Microsoft PlacesProduct Designer(Contract)

03/2025 – 06/2025, Redmond, WA

  • Co-led V1.0 UX of space management, turning manual dashboards into scalable admin workflows for seat assignment, bulk editing, and directory navigation; shipped to private preview in 07/2025.
  • Designed Copilot flows where admins prompt, review a suggestion, and approve it for AI-assisted workspace planning.

MockAICo-founder, Founding Product Designer

05/2024 – 11/2025, Seattle, WA

  • Led product vision and UX for an AI-powered mock interview platform for engineers; led 3 designers on V3.0 concepts.
  • Acquired 2K+ users and won 6 international design awards, including the iF Design Award 2026 and Gold at the London Design Awards.

UdemySenior Product Designer

07/2022 – 04/2025, Seattle, WA

  • Led the logged-out homepage redesign across 18 regions: +2.41% GMV (+$1.1M/yr) and +7.7% user growth.
  • Increased Personal Plan subscription conversion by 13.8% through multi-touchpoint UX optimization and usability testing.
  • Streamlined global checkout with a delayed account-creation flow: +1.4% paid purchase attempts.

Microsoft 365Product Designer(Contract)

01/2022 – 07/2022, Redmond, WA

  • Led 0-to-1 design of Organizational Messages, a GA admin tool for enterprise communication now serving 10,000+ organizations.
  • Contributed scalable UI and illustration components to the MADS design system, within platform and accessibility constraints.