Summary
Poyi Chen is a product designer with 13 years of experience crafting user-centered digital experiences across startups and large companies in the Bay Area, currently designing at Meta. With roots in graphic design and a BA from UC Berkeley, Poyi has led UX teams and design systems at Chegg, driven marketplace and internal tool design at Science Exchange, and built early product experiences at IXL and Travana. She blends visual craft with strategic product thinking—balancing business needs, accessibility, and measurable engagement improvements for millions of users. As a manager, she has partnered closely with product, research, and engineering to scale design operations and mentor growing teams. Based in Portola Valley, she brings a rare combination of hands-on prototyping, motion design facilitation, and systems-level thinking that helps translate complex requirements into elegant, usable interfaces.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.A, Practice of Art, B.A, Practice of Art at University of California, Berkeley
Applied Mathematics, Applied Mathematics at University of California, Merced