Stuart Kim
v.2026

Design leader who builds.

10+ years Exp
Multi-hyphenate
Complex systems
Hands-on leader
Builds with AI

Product design leader who owns scope and moves comfortably between strategy, research, and implementation. Trusted to lead teams and evolve practices — bringing product and design sense to complex systems where workflow density and AI integration converge.

available for
  • Founding designer or senior IC roles
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Stuart Kim
SEATTLE, WA  |  ONSITE · HYBRID · REMOTE
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PL. 01·V4Iterating

Rebooting Care Coordination for AI

A care coordination prototype built on a simple bet: AI's value is in clearing the structural problems that quietly block everything, so design, technology, and the human work of care can finally move. Synthesized, designed, and built end-to-end with AI.

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PL. 02·Daily useLive

My second brain, sort of

Built for a neurospicy brain. Wired Claude into my daily planner, calendar, and email so AI handles the executive-function tax that quietly burns out the parts of my mind I actually want working. A personal problem, solved in public.

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PL. 03·V.2026You're on it

A designer's AI sandbox

The site you're using. Designed, written, vibe-coded, and deployed end-to-end with AI. Sandbox, not portfolio — the place I test what an AI-enabled design practice actually feels like.

— Selected Work

Work

Cityblock Health · 2025 — 2026

Design in the Age of AI

Product Design Director AI Adoption · Team development

At peak, a team of 8. At leanest, 3. We supported 22 cross-functional partners across full product scope, from product discovery to production code. We developed and iterated an AI-powered design process that compressed discovery cycles by 50% and expanded ownership to front-end delivery, enabling designers to rapidly inform strategy while releasing more solutions than when the team was larger.

Walkthrough on request
Process artifact — Dual-track system
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Cityblock Health · 2021 — 2022

Right care, right time, designed for AI

Lead Product Designer UX Strategy · AI foundations · Discovery · Design

Two roles needed to work off the same priority list while the rules for what counted as priority changed under them every quarter. I designed a signal-driven feed that held steady on what didn't change. Rules-based on purpose, built as the chassis for AI. The work was paused when strategy shifted. Cityblock's 2026 direction matches this thesis. Context: care teams at Cityblock Health, 100K+ Medicaid members.

Walkthrough on request
Care manager home — prioritized member feed
Member profile — suggested care activities
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Bamboo Health (PatientPing) · 2018 — 2020

Predicting care needs at scale ahead of AI

Product Design Lead Business strategy · AI foundations · Discovery · Design

Predict who's about to become expensive before they do, using data we already had. I sized the market, validated product-market fit, and designed the prototype that shipped as the product. Still live after an acquisition. Outcomes: 50% reduction in cost for multi-visit patients across 1B+ encounters annually. Context: healthcare ADT data at PatientPing, now Bamboo Health.

Product shot — Rising Risk dashboard
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— Background

About

Design leader, analyst, founder, educator, coach.

Most recently Design Director and AI partner at Cityblock Health — a $1BN+ platform serving 700+ clinicians and 100K+ Medicaid members. I designed the first-generation tooling for their AI-first operating model, spanning insights, strategy, and code.

Before that, a decade across consumer and enterprise tech — from series-A startup to $500M acquisition, with $18M+ in revenue impact.

I also run Stuart Studios, a fractional design leadership and education platform built on hard-won field lessons.

I still reach for pen and paper for the hardest work.

I believe the greatest value of designers is how we think.

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