Chuck Shin

Founding mentor

🐰 5 sessions

Senior Product Designer @ Microsoft AI

2testimonials Vancouver, Canada Los Angeles (UTC-7) 5+ yrs in design

About

Hello! I'm Chuck, a Senior Product Designer in Vancouver, Canada 🏳️‍🌈 Recently I got a new job from layoff last year! I can help you if you are in the similar situation! I am originally from Korea 🇰🇷 and my background is Visual/Motion graphic design and transitioned to Product design. I have 8+ years of experience in Design. These days I've been focusing on design systems and working with AI agents. Are you not sure yet? I have some reviews about my mentorship here: https://adplist.org/mentors/chuck-shin

How I can help

Resume Portfolio Career advice Mindset/Mental care. How to use AI as a designer. Also, I can share insights about design systems, AI (setup, workflow and harness etc), accessibility and inclusive design.

Ask me about

Agency to in-house

Freelance to full-time

Layoffs

Influence without authority

Stakeholder standoffs

Imposter syndrome

Building a design system

Craft to strategy

Pivot into design

A hard problem I've navigated

Laid off and got a job less than 4 months! I can share my journey if you need a help from layoff!

Expertise

Interviewing

Fintech

AI workflows

Design systems

Agentic AI

AI/ML

Agency

Motion

AI tools

Product Designer

UX Designer

B2B SaaS

AI design

AI workflow

Harness Engineering

Experience

Product Designer 3 · Microsoft AI
2026 to Present
Product Designer · Versapay
2021 to 2025
Product Designer · TinyWins
2023 to 2026
Contract
Interaction Designer · Airfoil
2021 to 2023
Contract
UXUI Designer · Muuvment
2020-2021
Contract

Testimonials

Chuck was so friendly and gave real, honest advice. He shared a lot of insightful things based on his own experience and recommended actionable steps whenever he could. Not only did he share career advice, but he always made sure to also motivate and help me feel more confident about myself. Thank you, Chuck!
Valerie · Sep 2026
I really enjoyed my mentorship session with Chuck, who was patient and thoughtful, creating a comfortable space for an open and genuine conversation. I especially appreciated his generosity in sharing, including concrete examples and lessons from his own experience.
Zejun · Aug 2026

Sessions

Intro chatFree
40 min
(30-45min) Let's chat who you are, what you are looking for and what can we do together before we deepdive! If it was helpful, feel free to buy me a coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/chuckshin
Coffee chat (1:1)$20
45 min
(30-45min) Buy me a coffee! Let's talk about your current situation, concerns, anxiety or ask me anything about work, career or my cat photos. We will have a chat and bond together. (or could be your therapy session haha)
Resume and Portfolio Deepdive$75
60 min
Let's deepdive and work on your Resume and Portfolio! You will have action items that you need to work on! We can choose only one of them or tailor it what you want to focus on.
Follow up$30
45 min
Anything you want to follow up with
Coffee chat (2:1)$30
45 min
(30-45min) Buy me a coffee! Let's talk about your current situation, concerns, anxiety or ask me anything about work, career or my cat photos. We will have a chat and bond together. (or could be your therapy session haha)
Async$50
Async · video reply within a few days
Have no time but need an insight about your portfolio, resume or even slide deck? We can do this async! I can provide the video or document with action items so that you can take a look and apply it to your resume or portfolio right away!

English, Korean

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