June Yoonjung Hong

Founder, Designer & Vibe-Coder

Aestheria.design · Jan 2026 – Present

An independent venture building design infrastructure for teams shipping with AI coding agents. Founding designer and sole builder.

Building Aestheria, an AI-native design system for entrepreneurs and startups shipping with vibe-coding workflows. Engineered around a synchronized tokenization system that keeps design decisions under unified control across every generated surface, bringing enterprise-grade design system rigor to AI-generated, generative UI.

• Shipped end-to-end, solo: strategy, brand, product, UI/UX, and code; designed the system and built it.
• Architected the design tokens, package structure, component library and primitives, accessibility defaults, and generation logic end-to-end.
• Designed the full design system, human-named package architecture, style guide, agents, and product surface.

Senior Manager, Product Design

Harness · May 2024 – Dec 2025 · Series E

An AI-native software delivery platform spanning CI/CD, security testing, and cloud cost management.

Built and led a high-performing UX team of five, scaling the vertical I led from two modules to seven — roughly 30% of total company revenue — across secure application delivery (AppSec and DevSecOps): Security Orchestration, Supply Chain Security, and API Security.

• Led AI Canvas, a vision for AI-native enterprise security software that reverses the “chat-on-top-of-dashboards” paradigm, structuring the product around proactive, context-aware AI actions and agentic workflows that own investigations end-to-end. Ran the design workshop with cross-functional stakeholders that produced the 10x Agentic UX Framework ↗︎.
• Established the UX vision, presented to executives and adopted into the FY26 roadmap, giving Security Orchestration a coherent product direction.
• Hired, mentored, and coached the team, running design critique and career development for five designers.

Staff Product Designer

Panther Labs · Dec 2022 – Apr 2024 · Series B

A cloud-native SIEM built for detection engineering at security-team scale.

Led the Correlation Rules design, driving a $1 million reduction in churn and a notable increase in customer retention.

Spearheaded the Data Lake Search project, consolidating three siloed search experiences into a unified flow with NLP-powered features and an interactive visualization summary.

UX Architect & Lead Product Designer

Exabeam · Apr 2019 – Dec 2022 · Series B →︎ D

A security operations company known for user and entity behavior analytics.

Facilitated collaborative UX design workshops with executives and senior product leaders, aligning the TDIR product roadmap with a unified strategic vision.

Developed and secured a design patent for MATE, a graph-based tool leveraging the MITRE ATT&CK framework to detect and thwart multi-stage cyberattacks.

Led a competitive analysis and concept design for a future SOAR platform, garnering praise from top executives. This initiative laid the foundation for the development of Next-Gen Advanced Analytics and Case Manager.

Spearheaded the development of a new Alert Rank system for Alert Triage, leading a team of two designers. This innovation resulted in a 2022 Innovation by Design Award nomination from Fast Company.

Lead Product Designer

Chegg · 2015 – 2018

A direct-to-student education company: textbooks, homework help, and tutoring.

Led the chat-based tutoring vision and a scheduler redesign at Chegg Tutors, increasing scheduled lessons and improving tutor time management through a streamlined booking system.

Lead UX Designer

Logitech · 2014

A Swiss-American maker of computer peripherals and connected consumer hardware.

Led the design of an IoT mobile app experience for Circle, an in-home security camera, leveraging ethnographic user research to inform user-centered features and functionalities.

Developed companion app concepts for Bemo, a wearable social camera, and UE Boom, a Bluetooth speaker, prioritizing user-centered solutions through in-depth research.

Earlier

The agency and consulting years, before product.

Founded and ran Dei Communication, a Seoul web agency serving Korean enterprise brands — work that took two Grand Prizes at Web Award Korea, the country’s top award for web work, and a Silver Prize at the Incheon International Design Award. Later advised Fortune 500 brands on e-commerce and international marketing performance at MotionPoint.