Covering Financing product that enable Hedge Funds to leverage + short and income generating products for institutions.

Started as the foundering designer at Seed. Then recruited and built a talented team of designers across product and brand.

Led Zumper’s landlord portal redesign to improve listing completeness and product adoption. Zumper is the largest US private startup in the rental space.

Design Fellow at Kleiner Perkins (Zumper)

First designer at the design collective. Mainly worked for YC19 recruiting startup Flo Recruit. Design experiences across web, tablet and mobile use-cases for lawyers. Design and built landing pages and CMS-driven blogs.

Led service connections redesign. Ran exploration on music scheduling experiences. Sonos app is used by 10M households.

Led the website redesign and relaunched the e-commerce platform on Shopify. Supported social graphics and operated email marketing efforts on Klaviyo.

Targeted the affordable luxury accessory market. Got some press, sales, and traction but ultimately closed it down. The site I built was featured as a Squarespace template example, which accidentally pushed me toward web and digital design.

Did graphic design freelance gigs, while doing the most ridiculous intern chores at different New York fashion companies.

Freelance Designer & Intern at multiple Fashion Companies

Leading design on Financing products - helping hedge funds leverage and short. 

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Compound merged with Alternativ to form a new $1B+ RIA

https://loversmagazine.com/interviews/sj-zhang

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Talked about how I got into design and touched on a little bit of my Fashion background with Emil 

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https://www.makerstations.io/apple-like-pc-desk-setup/

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https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/210-sj-zhang

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Used Framer Motion for “tips” and also added a /store page

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Inspired by people being interested in my workspace, I decided to make my “Pinterest” board public

Take a look at how I chose parts and made it work with my existing setup

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Built my first PC, and it kinda blew up on Twitter

If you are looking for a job, let me know

Advising on design, product and recruiting

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Let me know how I can be helpful, seriously :)

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Betting on it becoming the Figma for SWEs

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Betting on the best-in-class, vertical focused neobank

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Worked at Zumper and sat on the interview panel

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Joined Kleiner Perkins as a Design Fellow

A graphic editor & archive of iconic furniture designs

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Text generation model trained on 2000 YC startups

Writing

The Long Game: Choose a Career That Brings Lasting Joy

My 2022 Investment Thesis