Joanna Chao

Throughout my career, I've had the opportunity to design products for companies of all sizes, which has allowed me to develop a broad range of skills and become versatile generalist. I have deep experience designing for both consumer and enterprise, which has led me to my current role supporting the nascent Design Systems team at Chime. Before that I was at Meta for 6.5 years where I was a lead IC across 3 teams and 10+ high impact projects.


I view my role as a design systems designer as an accelerator and partner, delivering quality and consistency at scale in order to give smart people more time to work on what's actually important, building the right solutions that address real world problems. Through my work I find satisfaction in reshaping how designers and engineers work together and enabling product teams to craft genuinely impactful products.

While I have a particular interest in travel, social justice, health and fitness, climate technology, mental health, and child development, I'm also naturally curious about all industries and how they shape the world around us.