Jenny Wen

Head of Design

New York City, New York, United States7 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led design initiatives for multiple products at Figma.
  • Built and scaled design teams effectively.
  • Invested in transformative tools for various industries.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Design Leader with extensive experience in team building and product development.

Contact

LinkedIn

Experience

7 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Anthropic

Member of Technical Staff (Design)

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

  • I've done a mix of IC execution, lead, and managing. Right now, I'm designing Cowork.

Figma

5 roles

Director of Product Design

Promoted

Aug 2024 – Dec 2024 · 4 mos

  • FigJam, Slides, Community, User Growth, Figma Buzz, and CMS.
  • I supported 12 designers and 2 managers.

Senior Product Design Manager, FigJam, Slides, & other new initiatives

Promoted

Mar 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • I support a team of 8 (ultra talented!) designers and lead the pillar that makes FigJam, Slides, and other new initiatives.

Product Design Manager, FigJam

Jan 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Built up the FigJam design team and pillar from 1 designer to 8 designers, and 10 engineers to 50 engineers.

Product Designer, FigJam

May 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • FigJam
  • Founding designer and design lead. Brought Figma's second product to market.
  • Delegated, coordinated, and oversaw work of multiple designers
  • Executed on: FigJam core primitives (sticky notes, shapes, text editing, etc.), cursor chat, emoting and reacting, templates
  • University programs
  • Hired for and built out the design team's new grad and intern programs (2019–2022)

Product Designer, Collaboration

Jun 2019 – May 2020 · 11 mos

  • Unified search
  • Team and community profiles
  • Advanced sharing permissions
  • File browser redesign

First round capital

Angel Track

Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 · 0 mo

Independent

Investor

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

  • I care about tools that fundamentally change the way we work — not strictly enterprise SaaS or productivity. Things that are genuinely useful to people in their jobs, regardless of industry. Soft spot for creative tools or things that encourage social mobility.
  • Some investments: Ocho, Rally Space, Notably, Opal

Dropbox

Product Designer

Aug 2017 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Dropbox Paper:
  • User-generated templates
  • Dropbox and third-party embeds
  • Dropbox Binder
  • I also led learning and development for our inaugural design intern class and an educational partnership between Engineering/Product/Design and Mission High School.

Square

Product Design Intern

May 2016 – Aug 2016 · 3 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Square for Retail

Shopify

Product Design Intern

Sep 2015 – Dec 2015 · 3 mos · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

  • Shopify Shipping

Hack the north

Designer

Feb 2015 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Branding and event collateral
  • Application process
  • Mobile apps

Coursera

Software Engineering Intern / Product Design Intern

May 2014 – Apr 2015 · 11 mos · Mountain View, CA

  • MOOC+, Monetization

Rokk3r labs

Front-End Engineering Intern

Aug 2013 – Dec 2013 · 4 mos · Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Pplconnect

UX Design Intern

Jan 2013 – Apr 2013 · 3 mos · Montreal, Canada Area

City of hamilton

2 roles

Planner

May 2012 – Aug 2012 · 3 mos · Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  • Community Planning & Design

Planner

Jun 2011 – Aug 2011 · 2 mos · Ontario, Canada

  • Community Planning & Design

Education

University of Waterloo

Bachelor of Applied Science

University of Waterloo

Bachelor of Environmental Studies (Incomplete

National University of Singapore

Study abroad

Jenny Wen - Head of Design | Stackforce