Tony Meng

About

Hey there, I'm Tony! I'm a Product Designer, Project Manager, and creative ideator at heart. I turn complex challenges into digital products and experiences that solve real problems for real people. As a lead designer: I’ve worked with 10+ startups and businesses; launched my own startup; managed engineering, design, and marketing teams across the US; and impacted over 20,000,000 users worldwide. Beyond the industry: I've led novel research at 3 university research labs, taught design courses with over 400 students, and worked with professors to develop new curricula. In my free time: I enjoy playing + creating video games and spending time at local coffee shops. I'm currently looking for UX and product design opportunities. Feel free to reach out on LinkedIn and let’s chat! Check out my website: https://tonyqm.github.io/

Experience

• Creative Director · Indie Studios2021-01-01 –

  Launched a startup company with $75,000 in investments through Roblox's Accelerator Program. Creating Bloxtopia, a massive online social universe powered by a user-driven, global economy. Overseeing engineering, design, and marketing teams across the US with Trello, Jira, ClickUp, GitHub. Managing production timelines, presentations, and specifications for stakeholders, investors, and QA teams. Directing front-end prototyping (Figma, Adobe Ps/Ai), user testing (interviews/surveys), implementation (Lua). Supervising back-end development (cloud databases and cybersecurity) for optimal server performance.

• Head of Product Design · Settlyfe2025-06-01 –

  Managing Product Research, Design, and Marketing teams. Create and maintain product roadmap, timeline, specifications across cross-functional teams.

• Lead Software Engineer, Frontend/Web · TT @ UC San Diego2022-05-01 – 2025-06-01

  Founded a nonprofit with 400+ members, overseeing 40+ board members with cross-departmental projects. Boosted sales and conversion by 846% by launching online store with Figma, HTML, CSS, JS, Google Analytics. Reduced onboarding time by 90% by creating Standard Operating Procedures and team protocols/assessments.

• Lead UI/UX Designer and Software Engineer · Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego2024-10-01 – 2025-02-01

  Led a team of 10 engineers to develop large-scale online social experiences with AI / LLM integrations. Created virtual experiences between users and AI models to facilitate user research, generate insights about human-computer interaction, and evaluate AI reasoning capabilities. UI design & test in Figma; front-end in Lua.

• HCI Portfolio Design Studio: Lecturer · UC San Diego2023-03-01 – 2024-06-01

  Taught university courses with 400+ students about building innovative design projects and portfolios. Managed large teams with 12 TAs/logistics staff to overhaul curriculum and prepare students for industry.

• Design Coordinator · Nature and Oceans Adventures2023-12-01 – 2024-03-01
• Design Coordinator · aako2023-11-01 – 2024-03-01
• Design Researcher · UCSD Design Lab2022-12-01 – 2023-06-01
• Financial Reporting and Consolidations Intern · Cepheid2022-06-01 – 2022-09-01

  Created a system to automatically migrate and manage contracts and orders, helping the company manage over $7.66 billion in revenue.

• Creative Director / PM (Accelerator Program) · Roblox2022-05-01 – 2022-07-01

  Transformed Indie Studios through Roblox's 12-week Startup Accelerator Program; selected from over 1000+ candidates. Created Bloxtopia, a massive online social universe, through weekly production sprints and rapid prototyping/iteration.

Education

• UC San DiegoBachelor of Science, Interaction Design
• UC San DiegoMinor, Computer Science
• Dougherty Valley High School

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