I’m Xingyu, Senior Brand Designer & Content Strategist with 9 years in London’s tech industry — in-house, agency-side, and freelance for brands including Meta, Google, and TikTok. My practice spans brand identity, illustration, motion design, and paid media creative. I’ve worked at scale—from internal culture content reaching 150,000+ ByteDance/TikTok employees to paid ad creative across Meta’s 20+ product family, and campaigns for Google, McKinsey, Greenpeace, and Pinterest. I believe design has to perform, so I use data to challenge and iterate on content, grounding visual decisions in insight rather than instinct. Beyond execution, I think about how a brand shows up and why it resonates—the why and the narrative behind visuals matter as much as how they look.

Xingyu Chai

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I’m Xingyu, Senior Brand Designer & Content Strategist with 9 years in London’s tech industry — in-house, agency-side, and freelance for brands including Meta, Google, and TikTok. My practice spans brand identity, illustration, motion design, and paid media creative. I’ve worked at scale—from internal culture content reaching 150,000+ ByteDance/TikTok employees to paid ad creative across Meta’s 20+ product family, and campaigns for Google, McKinsey, Greenpeace, and Pinterest. I believe design has to perform, so I use data to challenge and iterate on content, grounding visual decisions in insight rather than instinct. Beyond execution, I think about how a brand shows up and why it resonates—the why and the narrative behind visuals matter as much as how they look.

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I’m Xingyu, Senior Brand Designer & Content Strategist with 9 years in London’s tech industry — in-house, agency-side, and freelance for brands including Meta, Google, and TikTok. My practice spans brand identity, illustration, motion design, and paid media creative.

I’ve worked at scale—from internal culture content reaching 150,000+ ByteDance/TikTok employees to paid ad creative across Meta’s 20+ product family, and campaigns for Google, McKinsey, Greenpeace, and Pinterest. I believe design has to perform, so I use data to challenge and iterate on content, grounding visual decisions in insight rather than instinct. Beyond execution, I think about how a brand shows up and why it resonates—the why and the narrative behind visuals matter as much as how they look.

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Language

English
Fluent
Chinese
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior Designer (Freelance) at Shingraphik
January 1, 2022 - Present
Freelance senior designer providing brand, content design and illustration support to diverse clients.
Senior Designer at Binance
June 1, 2025 - December 1, 2025
Provided design and illustration support to the marketing team for campaign and marketing content.
Senior Designer at ByteDance
April 1, 2024 - June 1, 2025
Produced content for TikTok's internal culture team; reached 150,000+ employees; drove engagement through culture-led content; owned full content scope of internal culture campaigns.
Senior Designer at TikTok
April 1, 2024 - June 1, 2025
Produced content for ByteDance/TikTok's internal culture team; reached 150,000+ employees; drove engagement; full content scope of internal culture campaigns.
Senior Designer at Manifesto Studios
January 1, 2023 - September 1, 2023
Provided brand, design and content work across projects for clients; contributed to campaigns and design systems.
Senior Designer at Zoopla (Part of Houseful)
May 1, 2023 - August 1, 2023
Provided design support to the marketing team for paid ad creatives across LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and email channels; translated performance data into design iterations and tested hypotheses.
Senior Designer at distillery
February 1, 2023 - March 1, 2023
Senior Designer for short-term projects; contributed to brand and campaigns.
Senior Designer at distillery
September 1, 2022 - September 1, 2022
Senior Designer for a short-term engagement.
Senior Designer at Ennismore
April 1, 2022 - July 1, 2022
Senior Designer for brand and marketing design across hospitality portfolio.
Senior Designer at Nice and Serious
March 1, 2022 - April 1, 2022
Senior Designer delivering brand and marketing design.
Senior Designer at White Label LIVE X
January 1, 2022 - February 1, 2022
Senior Designer responsible for brand and content assets for clients.
Visual Designer at ZOE
June 1, 2021 - December 1, 2021
Provided design support to the marketing team for paid ad creatives across LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and email channels; translated ad performance data into design iterations; bridged performance insights and design decisions; supported product/campaign work outside ads.
Designer at Human After All
July 1, 2018 - June 1, 2021
Delivered brand, marketing, and content design across 20+ products under the Meta family; served international clients including McKinsey, Greenpeace, and Pinterest; core specialisms: branding, illustration, and motion design.
Junior Graphic Designer at Bunker Creative
July 1, 2017 - May 1, 2018
Delivered branding design for London-based clients across real estate, finance and food & beverage sectors.

Education

Master at University of Westminster
April 15, 2026 - April 15, 2026

Qualifications

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Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Computers & Electronics, Travel & Hospitality, Healthcare, Non-Profit Organization, Telecommunications, Real Estate & Construction, Retail