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Minjoo Kim

Senior Product Designer

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Product Designer with experience building complex, data-heavy platforms at national scale. Skilled in simplifying regulated workflows through research-driven UX, scalable design systems, and cross-functional collaboration. Owns ambiguous problems end-to-end to deliver foundations that improve usability, efficiency, and trust.

Experience

Senior UX Designer Excella July 2022 – July 2025

Washington, DC (Remote)

USA Staffing — Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
  • Led end-to-end product design for core B2B workflows — advanced search, dashboards, and task management — supporting complex, data-heavy use cases for HR specialists.
  • Owned creation and evolution of a USWDS-aligned design system in Figma, establishing reusable patterns that improved consistency, accessibility, and scalability.
  • Planned and conducted user research and usability testing to validate workflows and reduce friction in high-volume administrative tasks, informing iterative design decisions with measurable improvements in task success.
  • Synthesized insights from 40+ interviews with users, SMEs, and stakeholders into personas, journey maps, and task flows that shaped feature scope, priorities, and design tradeoffs in a complex enterprise environment.
  • Partnered with product and engineering leads during PI planning and delivery to align design decisions with technical constraints and phased implementation.
HCDMM — Human Capital Data Management and Modernization
  • Drove early-stage research, process mapping, and concept design to support modernization of legacy HR systems with complex security, compliance, and data-integrity requirements.
  • Defined foundational information architecture, navigation, and layout frameworks, improving content clarity while enabling long-term scalability.
  • Redesigned inter-agency transfer workflows, simplifying complex processes and reducing administrative burden during high-risk employee transitions.
  • Balanced usability with strict security and compliance constraints, ensuring designs were reliable, maintainable, and trusted by users.
Product Design Intern Civix July 2021 – December 2021
  • Designed user flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes for election management tools used by administrators to manage voter registration and election operations.
  • Participated in iterative design reviews to refine layouts, visual hierarchy, and information presentation.
  • Collaborated with developers and product owners to ensure WCAG 2.0-compliant, accessible interactions across interfaces.

Education

M.S. in Information Management University of Washington

UX & PM Specialization

B.A. in Psychology University of Washington

Minor in Informatics

Skills

Design & Strategy

End-to-End Product Design UX/Interaction Design Product Strategy Information Architecture Design Systems Accessibility (WCAG & Section 508) Prototyping & Wireframing User Research Usability Testing Task Analysis HTML/CSS

Tools

Figma FigJam Axure Adobe Creative Suite UserInterviews UserTesting SurveyMonkey Azure DevOps Jira