Gene Lee🇺🇸
Founder at Stealth Startup
About Gene Lee
Founder at Stealth Startup
Gene Lee is a design and customer experience leader with executive roles spanning Atlassian, Autodesk, and Mailchimp. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Design at Atlassian, where he led multidisciplinary teams to deliver cohesive, human-centered experiences at scale. Before that, Gene was VP of Design at Autodesk and Chief Experience Officer at Mailchimp, driving customer experience across both brand and product.
Over his career, Gene has also partnered with world-class brands such as Sony PlayStation, Nickelodeon, Scholastic, Landor, and Y&R, leading initiatives in design, branding, advertising, analytics, and customer experience. He is passionate about inclusive co-creation and believes in uniting strategy, product, marketing, engineering, and support around the customer to deliver lasting business impact.
Gene has served as an adjunct professor at Parsons, judged major awards including Fast Company Innovation and the Webbys, and spoken globally at events such as Awwwards, Adobe 99U, AIGA, and MIT’s Business of Design conference.
As a mentor, Gene enjoys connecting with professionals in the CX and Design communities to exchange ideas, share learnings, and inspire growth. His guiding principle: “Be humble, be teachable, and always keep learning.”
Expertise
Sessions with Gene Lee
- Mentorship Session (30 min): General mentorship
What mentees say
“I had specific, practical questions about CX that I had exhausted google trying to find trustworthy answers to. Gene provided some great insight and clarity in a structured, professional and friendly way.”
“The session with Gene had me thinking a lot after our conversation! Hearing about his leadership experiences helped me better grasp what it means to lead with an understanding of each individual. I’m grateful for this opportunity to be mentored by him.”
“It was really refreshing to hear Gene's POV because he was so easy to talk to and humble. I wanted to learn more about what his day-to-day looked like and we had such a great conversation on career pathing. It's really nice to see more AAPI representation in executive leadership roles and hearing what his path was like. I look forward to reconnecting with him again to further our discussions.”