When I’m not deliberating on diction, I’m getting lost in museums, exploring the Pacific Northwest, snowboarding, walking dogs, or singing along to musicals with my kids.
I'm actively looking for my next opportunity in the Seattle, WA area.
Testimonials of my work at Meta:
Self-directed:
“Jen communicates proactively, digs deep into context, and is self-directed. She works independently, ramping up to reliably execute through the phases of a project.”
- Stephanie Henry, Director Content Design at Meta
Scalable solutions:
“Jen finds scalable ways to solve problems as demonstrated with her efforts, she considers multiple perspectives and creates thoughtful solutions.”
- Stephanie Henry, Director Content Design at Meta
Flexible and adaptive to changing priorities:
“Flexible and adaptive to changing priorities. Takes on new work and opportunities with genuine excitement and a desire to learn. Willingness to pivot to different priorities; able to adapt to new teams and projects.”
- Stephanie Henry, Director Content Design at Meta
Thoughtful design decisions:
“Jen, it’s been a pleasure working with you this fall. Thank you for your continued efforts to add value to Meta, support your teammates, and grow in your role. You proactively seek out expertise and context from partners and are so thoughtful in your design decisions.”
- Cait Smith, Content Design Manager at Meta
Strengths:
“Jen’s always open to learning, and she already brings a lot to the table: her intuition, analytical brain, and level-headed demeanor...on top of her design sense.”
- Cait Smith, Content Design Manager at Meta
Very responsive:
“Throughout the calls tab disco collaborations, the engineering team has had a lot of content requests which Jen was very responsive and delivered high quality content.”
-Ying He, Software Engineer at Meta
Teamwork:
“Jen was quick, available, and efficient in communications. [During this] last iteration I reached out directly for a content request with only a few days before a mobile cut and she was able to get approved content to me and unblock a test before the code freeze.”
- Patrick Jackson, Software Engineer at Meta
Strategic, big-picture thinking:
“Jen demonstrates strong domain knowledge and strategic, big-picture thinking.”
- Stephanie Henry, Director Content Design at Meta
Collaboration with cross-functional team:
“(Jen) Independently builds collaborative and productive working relationships with cross-functional peers in Product Design, User Research, Product Management, Engineering and all other disciplines.”
- Stephanie Henry, Director Content Design at Meta
Trusted partner who holds a high-quality bar:
“Thoughtful and meticulous—delivering strategic work. Asks smart questions that help the team pressure test their logic. Earned trust of her multiple Product Design counterparts as a peer who holds a high-quality bar.”
- Stephanie Henry, Director Content Design at Meta
Leadership:
“As all of her Product Design partners are no longer with Meta, Jen shows leadership in design meetings, as she is the sole Design XFN (cross-functional partner) remaining. She has advocated for Design in absence of Product Design and is responsible for carrying forward a design vision for Calls Tab as it continues to ship and iterate past 6% in Vietnam and Thailand.”
- Andrew Hsieh, Content Designer at Meta
Valuable opinions when lacking UX designer:
“After our UX designer was no longer with the company, I worked with Jen directly on a few content/UX decisions. Although some of them were ambiguous, Jen stepped up and got great context outside of our team in order to form an optimized UX decisions.”
-Ying He, Software Engineer at Meta.