Black-and-white halftone portrait of Yongjoon Kim

About me

I'm a designer-turned-product manager based in the SF Bay Area. My product career has focused on making users' workflows simpler and more automated through beautiful, intuitive user experiences. Originally trained as an architect, I'm particularly curious about how technology can transform complex, real-world processes.

Experiences

RenoFi

2025 - Present

As a Product Manager, I build AI products that help loan teams review documents, process loan files, and find complex information faster.

I joined as employee #4 and Design Systems Lead, building design process automations for Cottage's ADU business. I later became its first Product Manager to lead the marketplace product that connects homeowners with contractors.

WeWork

2018 - 2020

As a Design Technology Lead, I implemented BIM technology and built automation tools that helped designers deliver WeWork's co-working product standards more efficiently.

Gensler

2014 - 2016

I designed office spaces for global technology headquarters, including Google, IBM, and Facebook, in Seoul, Korea.

Journal

  1. Instinct in the Age of AI
  2. What Shipping Code Taught Me
  3. Product Focus When Everyone Can Build
  4. Future of Revit
  5. Automating entire industry, not just a task
  6. Maker-Manager: The New Renaissance Man
  7. Product Analysis with Cursor and Claude Code
  8. Why Writing Still Matters for Product Teams
  9. Improve Your Running with Nike Run API & ChatGPT
  10. Notification Dopamine
  11. Finding ‘Figma of Architecture’
  12. Boost Your Airtable Automation with AWS Lambda

Side projects

Organizized

Daily recommendation of my favorite musical tunes along with an AI-assisted commentary, powered by Spotify API.