Justin Chando

CEO

Seattle, Washington, United States17 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led Flipgrid to over 100M users.
Founded Chalkup, enhancing classroom collaboration.
Expert in product management and design.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS EdTech leader with extensive experience in product management and design.

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EntrepreneurshipUser ExperienceStart-upsProduct DevelopmentCreative DirectionMarketing StrategyStrategyProduct DesignGraphic DesignBusiness DevelopmentSocial MediaStrategic PlanningHTML 5Adobe Creative SuiteWordPress

Experience

Microsoft

4 roles

Partner Head of Product & Design, GroupMe

Oct 2025 – Present · 5 mos

Principal Head of Product, GroupMe

Promoted

Oct 2022 – Oct 2025 · 3 yrs

Principal Head of Product + Design, Flipgrid

Jun 2020 – Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

I led the product and design team for Flipgrid, a simple, free, and accessible video discussion experience for PreK to PhD educators, learners, and families. Acquired by Microsoft in 2018, Flipgrid grew to 100M+ users while I worked on it and was a must-have tool to enable remote learning.

Principal Group Product Manager, Education

Jan 2018 – Jun 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Led product experiences across Microsoft 365 including Teams for Education, Office.com, core Office apps, OneDrive, and Windows – designing and engineering each product to be authentic for education.

Microsoft ai

Product Management + Design

Jun 2025 – Present · 9 mos

Chalkup

CEO/Founder

Jan 2013 – Jun 2018 · 5 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Chalkup joined Microsoft in Feb 2018
Chalkup is a classroom collaboration platform used by educators from 1 in 3 universities and 1 in 5 US high schools. It's a space for academic chat/messaging, resource sharing, assignments, and grading – all in one.

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Founder

Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 · 4 yrs

Founded web, media, & photography company that focused on nautical lifestyle and worldwide sailing events. Clients included US SAILING, Cruising World, Sailing World, and SAIL magazine.