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Jihoon Suh

Extended CV

Design leader, 10+ years building and scaling product design at the frontier of new technology. Currently at Coinbase.

Work

Design lead (player-coach)Coinbase
Jan 2026 – Present

On Coinbase's Yield & Investment team, leading design for a net-new 0-to-1 consumer surface. Directly manage a team of designers while remaining in production design as an IC, owning end-to-end UX direction. Player-coach scope: direct reports, design reviews, roadmap alignment, and cross-functional partnership with product and business leadership on quality bar and team rituals for a category with no established industry UX conventions.

Staff Product DesignerCoinbase
Mar 2022 – Jan 2026

Designing onchain finance at Coinbase since 2022: crypto-backed loans, lending, DEX. Scaled bitcoin-backed loans to $1B+ in collateral and a stablecoin lending product to $100M in 10 days. Led a team of 5 on Coinbase Advanced and helped streamline design review and support across the vertical. Founding designer for Stand with Crypto.

Senior Product DesignerMeta
Mar 2018 – Feb 2022

Designed Facebook's gaming vertical (2018–2020): strategy for gaming as a social medium and the game platform. Moved to Messenger when COVID made virtual hangouts urgent (2020–2022) and led design for remote presence, Play Together and Live Rooms, reaching hundreds of millions of users.

UX Design InternGoogle
Jun – Sep 2017

Designed OS-level interaction patterns for Daydream, Google's AR/VR platform.

Founding DesignerBhaptics (HTC-funded VR startup)
Jun 2015 – Jun 2016

Shipped a wearable haptic product line and the authoring software for it.

Education

M.S. Human Centered Design & Engineering2016–2018

University of Washington

Graduate Teaching Assistant · Excellence and Innovation Award

B.S. Industrial Design2010–2016

KAIST

Dean's List · Full Scholarship

TeachingLecturer at Meta and LikeLion Seattle; T.A. at University of Washington and KAIST
PublicationsUbiComp EA '17 · TEI '17 · CHI EA '16
PatentsFive design and technical patents at Coinbase and Meta