Tiger Zhao🇺🇸
Senior Product Design Lead at Wanderboat AI
About Tiger Zhao
Senior Product Design Lead at Wanderboat AI
👋 Hi! After bouncing back from three career breaks—through the pandemic, mass layoff, and academic programs—I’m excited to share my experiences and insights with young and aspiring designers facing similar challenges like you.
With nearly 5 years of experience in designing user experiences and building products that range from consumer electronics to enterprise AI tools, I continue to draw inspiration from the raw beauty of nature, which has taught me the value of simplicity.
My design philosophy, "hakuna matata," grows around simplifying the complex world to bring inner peace to users, and I look forward to sharing this approach with you.
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What mentees say
“I reached out to Tiger for job-search and positioning advice. He was easy to talk to and offered valuable perspectives from both the candidate and hiring-manager sides. I especially appreciated his holistic approach to my portfolio, LinkedIn, and other materials, proactively identifying opportunities beyond the questions I came prepared with.”
“Highly recommend—I just had my first mentorship session with Tiger, and it was awesome and super helpful! Tiger was kind enough to point out areas I can improve in both my resume and portfolio, which gave me valuable insights. I'm looking forward to having more sessions with him to iterate on my portfolio and career growth!”
“Hey Tiger, really appreciate you taking the time to review my portfolio and giving such detailed feedback. Your insights on storytelling and clarifying the problem solution connection in my case studies were exactly what I needed to hear. The specific suggestions around the Brexa project and how to better communicate design decisions to folks outside the CRM space have given me a clear roadmap…”