Jade Hyeryeong Kim

SaaS product designer rooted in engineering and UX.

San Francisco, CA.

About

Crafts scalable systems that balance user needs and product goals.

Work

Naver (Google of Korea)

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Product Designer

Highlights

Designed the Al chat interface for Korea's leading search engine by structuring LLM-generated responses for commerce-specific queries

Designed Al-powered marketing and messaging tools for over 30,000 eCommerce business operators, improving productivity and campaign performance visibility

Created end-to-end dashboard experience to help enterprise users analyze Al-driven marketing results and optimize next actions

Improved model accuracy by 35% through a preprocessing algorithm for automatic keyword extraction and customer review categorization

Webtoon (Naver spin-off listed in the U.S.)

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Product Designer

Highlights

Led design for world first online comics platform (4.5M+ DAU), covering product requirement documentation, user research, and UX for App, Mobile/PC Web

Increased app ratings and engagement (iOS: 3.0 → 4.7 | Android: 3.9 → 4.6) by redesigning the rating flow based on usage logs and daily voice-of-customer feedback

Drove cross-functional projects and filed patents related to business models and content discovery, achieving 230K+ daily tab views

Kiswe

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Design Intern

Highlights

Rebranded a live streaming app and developed GUI guidelines

Conducted competitive UX/UI analysis and user testing in the K-pop vertical, leading to interactive feature suggestions for concerts breaking Guinness record in online attendance

Volunteer

Projects with

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IBM, Qualcomm, SF Mayor's Office, Schoolab

Participant

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MIT Reality Hack

Content & Visual Designer

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UC Berkeley

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Master of Design HCI Grade: 3.9

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Bachelor of Science Industrial Design

Awards

Al Design Award 2025 Gold Winner

Finalist (Top 0.3%) at Global Al Hackathon

Honorable Mention, Adobe Designathon

1st place, Moonshot Designathon

Best Thesis Award

Excellence award in Leadership and Volunteer activities (Top 10%)

4 years full-ride, Samsung scholarship, National Graduate Technology scholarship

Skills

Design

Figma, Adobe Suite, Unity, Usability Test, Sketching, Product Requirement Documents, Wireframing, Product management, Workshop facilitating, Equitable Design.

Technical

R, SQL, Tableau, Python, Swift UI, LLM, 3D modeling (Fusion360, Rhino, Grasshopper, Keyshot), Physical Prototyping, Arduino.