Summary
Ken Yang is a Principal Product Designer with nearly a decade of experience leading design at startups and scale-ups, and a long-standing entrepreneurial background from founding a multimedia studio that served clients like The Washington Post and USPS. He has repeatedly built and scaled high-performing design teams—most recently at Flowcode and Betterment—specializing in growth funnels, acquisition flows, and cross-platform UX that tie user outcomes to measurable business impact. A pragmatic design leader, Ken blends design systems, data-driven funnel analysis, and accessibility to deliver intuitive solutions under uncertainty. He coaches and mentors designers, establishing accountability and trust while driving operational alignment across product and engineering. Based in New York, he pairs a BS in Decision & Information Sciences with hands-on craft in information architecture, visual hierarchy, and multistep cross-platform flows. Notably, his career spans both hands-on execution and strategic leadership, from running client services to steering design at companies through rapid scale.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park