Sunny Wang

Resume · Sunny Wang

Designer · 14+ years across 0–1 product, systems, and teams

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Approach

Create values. Think forward.
Design to delight.

I design for simplicity and for people. I tell stories that balance heart and craft, and lean on a multi-disciplinary toolkit to lead teams toward problems worth solving and futures worth building.

Experience

Airbnb

Senior Design Manager

0→1 team builder → vision shaper → global scaler

As the first designer from Airbnb’s global team to establish design presence in China, I evolved from IC to hands-on design lead and team manager—scaling from 0→1 locally and expanding into global markets.

Driving 0→1 product & system innovation

Led end-to-end design for major initiatives across markets, shaping product direction through cross-functional collaboration.

Leading by doing

Stayed close to the work through hands-on design, rapid prototyping, and iterative exploration, increasingly leveraging AI and emerging tools.

Raising craft & culture

Elevated quality through system thinking, storytelling, and craft, while fostering a collaborative, high-performing team environment.

Building teams & impact

Grew and led a multidisciplinary design team, enabling design to drive from vision through execution across product, engineering, and marketing.

Scaling impact across markets

Scaled pilot innovations into global capabilities, enabling reuse across markets and strengthening core product systems.

Google

Interaction Designer

0→1 product builder

I joined the Google Android team as the first Interaction Designer on Project Fi, helping bring a new kind of global virtual carrier from 0→1.

From onboarding and service subscription to account management and device purchase, I shaped the end-to-end experience for a mobile connectivity product built from the ground up.

Inside a small, fast-moving UX team, I helped define the core flows and translate a complex carrier system into something clear, calm, and easy to use.

I also contributed iconography and illustration to Material Design, bringing a little more clarity and delight into functional interactions.

Alongside product work, I supported XX+UX (now Hexagon), a Google initiative for Women in UX, designing its first web presence and helping launch the mentorship program.

Trulia

Visual UX Designer

0→1 craft builder

My first design role was at Trulia, where I worked as a Visual UX Designer within a close-knit and highly creative team.

Across the product, I designed and shipped consumer-facing features including the adaptive homepage, dynamic home feed, global navigation, collaborative home boards, mortgage flows, map overlays, and site plugins.

A lot of the work touched early explorations of personalized and data-driven experiences, shaping more intuitive and engaging home discovery journeys.

During quarterly “Innovation Weeks,” I collaborated with cross-functional teammates to prototype new ideas, including Thoth Dashboard, an internal data visualization tool that won the Most Popular Award.

Alongside product work, I supported internal design initiatives, creating visual systems for company-wide promotion and equity refresh communications.

Education & Academia

Carnegie Mellon University

Master of Human–Computer Interaction

Beijing University of Posts & Communications

Bachelor of Engineering, Communication Engineering

Tsinghua University

HCI Lab Intern

Microsoft Research Asia

HCI Intern