Linda Hong
Staff Product Designer at Brex
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLinda Hong is a business-minded Staff Product Designer with 11 years of experience crafting user-focused products across startups and tech giants, currently shaping financial product experiences at Brex. She spent six years at Meta/Instagram leading safety initiatives that delivered features protecting billions of users daily, blending product strategy with measurable impact. Her background spans product design, principal-level leadership, and cross-functional collaboration at companies including Metromile, Optimizely, and Microsoft, with a strong grounding in marketing and go-to-market design from earlier roles. Linda pairs a BS in Business Administration with hands-on design execution, accessibility practice, and art direction—skills honed while launching responsive web properties and large campaigns. She’s known for turning complex safety and personalization problems into pragmatic, user-centered solutions that scale. Based in San Francisco, she brings a rare combination of operational rigor, product-safety expertise, and marketing-savvy to new design challenges.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Business Administration (Concentration Marketing), BS Business Administration (Concentration Marketing) at San José State University
Github Skills (6)
optimizely9
javascript3
react3
typescript2
component-library1
static-site-generator1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
optimizely/oui-icons
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
Default icons for the Optimizely apps and other OUI projects
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes in 3 months
optimizelyouiicons
optimizely/developers.optimizely.com
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 5 days
documentation-websiteoptimizelystatic-site-generatordeveloper-documentation
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