Yi Zhu
Sr Director Of Design at ByteDance
Sammamish, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYi Zhu is a senior design executive who leads product, content, and AI experience for Lark (Feishu) at ByteDance, overseeing a 100+ person organization that builds AI-native productivity and collaboration tools used by millions globally. With nine years at Microsoft shaping core Office 365 experiences—Word, OneNote, modern collaboration and employee-facing enterprise tools—he blends deep enterprise UX expertise with platform-level design strategy. Yi is skilled at scaling multidisciplinary teams and design operations across interaction, motion, prototyping, research and content to deliver fluid, efficient workflows and AI-enhanced creation experiences. He consistently focuses on translating complex enterprise needs into human-centered, high-impact products and has a background in interaction design and industrial/product design that informs his systems-driven approach. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of guiding design through large organizational shifts—from subscription model transformations to AI-infused workplace experiences—making him adept at aligning design vision with business and technical strategy.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Interaction Design, Master's degree, Interaction Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Industrial and Product Design, A+, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Industrial and Product Design, A+ at Beihang University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (78)
stream10
tplink10
rule-engine9
jsvascript9
sql9
edge-computing9
alfred-workflow8
tweak8
axios8
data-stream8
iiot8
rasa8
nlu8
iot8
streaming-data8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bing-zhub/fullStackVueExpress
May 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:51 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
bing-zhub/learn-cpp
Feb 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 141 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 9 months
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