Kate Jie Yu
Staff Product Designer (AI Systems) · Founder

Profile

Product Designer specializing in AI systems, founder, with 10+ years building product systems across enterprise and AI-native environments.

I design systems that turn ambiguous ideas into structured execution — spanning product workflows, organizational decision-making, and AI systems. At SAP, I led system-level workflow architecture across supply chain platforms. At SyncoPro, I'm building an AI-native product system that generates structured product plans from early-stage ideas — currently in live beta with early founder testing and active product feedback.

Experience
Staff Product Designer|SAP
2022 -- Present
  • Led system-level workflow architecture across supply chain platforms (ASN, GRN, Discovery Analytics) — improving decision clarity across cross-functional teams, reducing processing time by 30%, and decreasing operational errors by 20%.
  • Reframed product decision surfaces in Discovery Analytics — increasing feature adoption by 35% and reducing time-to-insight by 25%.
  • Established design-to-code workflows and reusable AI-assisted prototyping systems — enabling faster execution across design, product, and engineering.
  • Built governance infrastructure through BN Design System — standardizing decision-ready components across enterprise teams.
Founder & Product Designer|SyncoPro
2025 -- Present
  • Built SyncoPro — an AI-native product system that turns early ideas into structured execution through reusable workflows and system-guided planning.
  • Designed the core product system combining decision architecture, AI workflows, and continuous learning loops — turning outputs into reusable, improving systems over time.
  • Defined AI authority boundaries and escalation models — structuring what the system decides autonomously vs. what requires human confirmation.
Senior UX Designer|Synopsys
2020 -- 2022
  • Led UX strategy and platform architecture through full digital transformation; redesigned navigation and content systems, increasing engagement — delivered global platforms under pandemic-era constraints, recognized by executive leadership for high-impact delivery.
Web Designer & Developer|Sage Intacct
2018 -- 2020
  • Drove 400% webinar traffic growth in 2 months via UX redesign; designed enterprise event mobile app translating cross-functional requirements into a scalable UI system.
Freelance Product Designer|Kate Studio
2014 -- Present
  • Independent practice delivering end-to-end SaaS product design across B2B and consumer platforms; founded Mighty Coupons and ReferMeJob — full 0→1 product ownership from concept through launch.
Capabilities
AI Product Systems · Decision Infrastructure Design/ Agentic Workflows/ AI Governance · Product & Strategy · Product Strategy/ 0→1 Product Development/ Enterprise SaaS Platforms · Execution · Design-to-Code/ Design Systems/ Organizational Governance
Education
Master of ArtsAcademy of Art University
2016 -- 2018