Z.J. ZHOU

PRODUCT DESIGNER

zijiezhou00@gmail.com

Shanghai, China

+1 (925)5483928 / +086 15900718049

https://zijiez.me/

WORK EXPERIENCE

ByteDance / TikTok - Global Payment, [Agentic & E-Comm / LIVE / FinTech]

Product Designer - Shanghai, China2026/6 - Now

  • AI-Native Design Workflow: Owned AI-native workflow strategy, enabling designers to ship production-ready UI code within legacy architecture; cut development cycles 93%, design QA to <1 round, and bugs to single digits.
  • US TikTok AI Agentic Commerce Payment Growth: Owned payment UX and strategy; lifted Pure / Hybrid UCP Checkout Show → Complete Payment from 10% / 17% to 17% / 25% (+7pp / +8pp; +70% / +47.1%), funnel conversion 10%+, and payment conversion 70% → 80%.
  • Owned 3 Global Payment Product Lines: Led Aggregated, Refund, and Withdrawal Checkout UX across 6+ TikTok business lines, Lark, CapCut, and 25+ products; reused shared capabilities to cut market/channel/payment-method-specific effort 40%+, saving 5–9 person-days.
  • TikTok Promote payment Growth: Identified 18 optimization opportunities and shipped 5 P0–P00 initiatives, raising overall PSR to 88.54%.
  • UK TikTok Creator Card Conversion Growth: Led primary-card setup; drove 42K+ impressions and 963 setups in 2 weeks, with 64.67% uplift, +145% MoM UV, and +107% MoM conversions.
  • Cross-Market Payment Capability Reuse: Scaled reusable payment capabilities across products, expanding payment coverage, success rate, and user trust while reducing duplicate design and compliance / UX risks; raised overall PSR to 89.60%.

ByteDance / TikTok - Global Payment, [E-Commerce / FinTech]

Product Design Intern - Shanghai, ChinaJun 2025 - Aug 2025

  • Cross-Market Insurance Benchmark: Led research across PH, ID, MY, TH, and the US; captured 800+ end-to-end screens across 9+ competitors, built a standardized benchmark, and delivered 2 regional reports supporting MY / TH / US launches and iteration.
  • TikTok Shop Insurance UX Optimization: Identified 10+ issues behind GWP / NPS decline; redesigned checkout insurance entry points and benefit visibility and drove 2 P0 initiatives into the next release, reducing add-on funnel drop-off and improving GWP conversion and NPS.

Johnson Controls, [Design System / Infrastructure]

UX Design Intern - Milwaukee, WI (Remote)Jul 2022 - Sep 2023

  • 0→1 Design System: Helped build and launch Element Design System (EDS), adopted by 35+ product teams, improving UX/UI consistency, delivery efficiency, and design quality.
  • Design System Adoption: Co-defined system principles, led biweekly Figma training & EDS onboarding, and scaled EDS adoption across the organization.
  • Reusable Design Assets: Built EDS UI Kit & documentation with 6 Design Patterns and 27 Components, including data visualization; cut component creation time 42% and improved Design Token efficiency 65%.
  • Design Efficiency & Business Impact: Reduced maintenance time 62%, freed 26% more time for product innovation, saved $800K+, and delivered $200K+ average annual net savings.