Yuna — UI/UX designer (Japan product design → Canada → US company via PEO)
Sales → design school → Money Forward product design in Japan; Canada college/community path; later US-company work on a Japan-facing product via PEO.
UI/UXデザイナー · Vancouver
Profile
Yuna is a UI/UX / product designer who started in Japan sales, switched into design, worked at Money Forward, then relocated to Canada.
Current role
At interview time: designer on a Japan-localized product for a US company building a behavioral-therapy app for chronic cough (AI cough detection); partnership with a Japanese pharma company; English internally, Japanese product localization. Worked via PEO while living in Canada; high location flexibility (e.g. short Mexico workation).
Japan experience
New-grad sales at a staffing firm ~1.5 years. Left to attend design school in Japan (about half a year of study then Digital Hollywood). ~8 months web design at a graduate’s company (WordPress ops → wireframes / lower-page design). Then product designer (UI/UX) at Money Forward on B2B finance products (accounting/payroll-related); she places the start of that PD role at roughly four years before the interview and resigned a few months after discovering Frog about three years before the interview—so Japan product-design tenure was meaningful but the article does not state an exact “X years at Money Forward” figure. Overall: career changer into design with both agency-like web work and product-company UX.
Path to Canada / North America
Chose Canada as an English-speaking, lower-cost alternative to US/UK grad school. Enrolled at CICCC (classes from January); continued some Japan contract work early on. First Canada work via Vancouver Design Community networking (part-time at a small development studio, UX-heavy, several projects) after finding standard applications difficult.
Outcome
Moved to a US employer; used PEO at visa-transition time to stay in Canada and keep Canadian-relevant employment narrative. Earlier BC-employer PNP tech plans were disrupted by layoff / program difficulty.
Based on Frog’s Japanese-language interview. English summary for scanning. Original interview (Japanese)
Good PEO + product-design employer story. Keep MF years qualitative unless article states a number.