benji kim

Senior Product Designer

Complicated products.
Considered design.

I design products for people with a fair amount to figure out: which expert to call, which policy to choose, what medication a patient is taking. My work spans healthcare, finance, research, and insurance. I bring extensive startup experience, taking products from 0→1.

Healthcare & Life SciencesFinance & InsuranceB2B & Consumer ProductsStartup ExperienceSole Designer
20+ hospital systems

Medication management
Cureatr

21M patients

Patient-feedback platform
Quality Reviews

7,500+ candidates/year

Expert-screening workflow
FirstThought

Launched Soventure

Adventure travel-insurance marketplace
Soventure

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Senior User Experience Designer (Product Design)

E-commerce & Insurance

Soventure

Soventure product interface

Making travel insurance
easier to understand.

I launched Soventure’s travel-insurance marketplace and led its product design to help travelers understand what their policies covered. Interview participants reported greater confidence in choosing coverage through the redesigned experience.

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Founding Member & Product Designer

Life Sciences & Financial Services

FirstThought

FirstThought product interface

Building an ML-powered
expert network from 0→1.

As one of FirstThought’s founding members and its sole designer, I helped turn scattered scientific data into an expert-research platform. The shipped product reduced research from days to hours for a 25-person analyst team.

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Lead UX Designer

Healthcare & Clinical Workflows

Cureatr

Cureatr product interface

From paper medication lists
to a mobile experience.

As lead UX designer, I helped turn scattered medication records into a mobile history clinicians could interpret at the point of care. We tested with hospital staff around New York, and the application was deployed across 20+ hospital systems nationwide.

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Earlier work

Design leadership across
complex products.

Quality Reviews 2014–2015 Head of Product Design

Patient-feedback products reaching 21M patients and 10 of the top 35 U.S. healthcare providers.

Axial 2011–2014 Lead UX Designer & Product Development

Led UX and visual design for a middle-market capital-raising platform and managed the design/front-end relationship across a five-person team.

GLG 2008–2011 Senior UX/UI Designer

Designed an expert-network platform, used performance metrics to drive iterations, and managed and trained two junior designers.

My experience designing expert-network products at GLG laid the groundwork for helping start FirstThought and building its ML-powered research platform.

About me

I also surf, snow, cook

Benji surfing a waveBenji preparing food in a chef’s jacket