Summary
Charles Wu is a Senior Product Designer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience shaping enterprise and consumer-facing products across Silicon Valley. He has led design and design-system efforts at companies like Calendly, LivePerson, and now Asana, driving measurable outcomes such as 50%+ adoption for new analytics, reduced churn, faster ML-driven task completion, and lower support workloads. Equally comfortable mentoring junior designers and shipping front-end implementations, he blends systems-level thinking from his Systems Design Engineering background with hands-on UX development. Known for improving accessibility, consistency, and operational efficiency, he often pairs research-led decisions with pragmatic tooling and process improvements to scale teams and products. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of elevating internal design capability—streamlining tooling and training to lift overall product quality across organizations.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Systems Design Engineering Management Science Option, Bachelor’s Degree Systems Design Engineering Management Science Option at University of Waterloo