Ellen Dong

Head of Design

Brooklyn, New York, United States11 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building user-centered design processes.
Led design teams to create impactful mental health products.
Experience in both startup and established tech environments.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Design expert in SaaS and EdTech industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

User Experience DesignProduct DesignDesign ManagementUser-centered Design

Other Skills

ResearchCross-functional CollaborationUsability TestingDesign ResearchInteraction DesignUser Interface DesignPromotional WritingNGOsInformation ManagementWritingData AnalysisGlobal TeamsEnglishEditingE-Learning

About

I’m a startup operator with a design lens – focused on building high-impact teams and crafting products that create meaningful value for both users and the business. Currently, I’m Head of Design at Headway, leading Product Design, Creative, and Research to build products that make mental health care more accessible and affordable at scale. ellencreate.design

Experience

11 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 11 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Headway

Head of Design

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · New York, United States

Making mental healthcare more accessible and affordable.

User Experience DesignProduct DesignResearch

Apple

2 roles

Design Manager

Promoted

Jul 2018 – Feb 2019 · 7 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Design Management

Designer

Aug 2016 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Create awesome products for awesome people.

Product Design

Turi (formerly dato)

Product Designer

Nov 2015 – Aug 2016 · 9 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Leading the design effort in building machine learning tools for developer users while working closely with a cross functional team to define product structure, screen flows and screen details.
Helped in establishing the user-centered design process and improving team’s awareness of user-centered design.

Product Design

Databricks

UX Design Intern

Jun 2015 – Sep 2015 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Redesigned the key product pages for Databricks, a big data platform for data scientists to explore and visualize data. The landing page went alive in last September which improves onboarding experience with more accessible welcome guide.
Delivered interaction flow and built up interactive prototypes for usability testing. Provided design specs to the engineering team.
Conducted design research with multiple research methods including usability study, user interview, heuristic evaluation and competitive analysis.

Usability TestingDesign ResearchUser Experience Design

Netease

Product Designer Intern

Apr 2013 – Mar 2014 · 11 mos

Designed China’s first official Massive Open Online Course(MOOC) platform, iMOOC. Led the design of course management platform, mainly focusing on the grading system. Attracted more than 500,000 users in two months.
Took over the daily operation of new media, assisted in promotion for TED Global2013 to Chinese people.
Accomplished 3 public relationship articles focused on online education which are published in printed magazines and reproduced by 10+ online media.

Product Design