Jessica Yang

First things first

Hello! I'm a senior product manager at Microsoft and have spent most of my career PMing enterprise software (with a brief additional stint as a UX person). Before that I was a computer science major at Yale University where I sang in choirs, drew cartoons, and did some undergrad research on embodied agents (e.g. social robots). Before that I grew up in Singapore.
Crazy to believe these days, but I got into tech because I genuinely love it. I enjoy working on anything with a user interface, and I'd like my work to contribute to a better world.
Marketable skills: I have strong UX instincts and am really good at execution. I can PM, code, research, design, write well, and do a variety of other useful things. I speak English, Mandarin Chinese, some French, rusty German and a smattering of phrases in other languages. I care a lot about culture and mentorship, and have been described as "very nice" and "sharp"...make of that what you will.
Visit my LinkedIn profile or download my resume (PDF) for more work stuff or contact me at jessica@jessicayang.org if you'd like to chat!

I have and pursue many diverse interests, some of which I'm even good at. Some of those interests: art, sailing, languages, psychology/cognition, making music, writing.
In September 2018, I gave a talk at the Grace Hopper Celebration titled "Help, I Have Too Many Interests!" about this. Looking back, the content feels a little naive, but I'm glad I did it. My session was so oversubscribed we had to do a repeat in a larger room, and to this day I have people emailing me about how I helped them feel seen, which makes me glad.