Jonathan Yang

Jonathan Yang

Product Manager at Notion in Brooklyn

About

Product at Notion, previously Figma, Messenger, and Instagram. I'm particularly good at product reasoning and "speaking" design. I attribute this to the good fortune of working with world-class designers throughout my career.

I like rockskipping, well-balanced utensils, and wall-mounted shelving. Currently, I'm musing on seasonal produce and Lindsey R. Shere's "Chez Panisse Desserts".

Work Experience

2024 — Now
New York, NY

I helm Collaboration. I support the core product team working on our notification, inbox, and commenting primitives, while developing 0-1 bets in multiplayer communication.

2023 — 2024
New York, NY

I led the product team working on collaboration solutions for our largest and most complex customers. We work on a combination of strategic vision setting, tier differentiation, and deep partnership with teams across our business.

Previously, I steered the product teams working on file browser (figma.com) and search. We built better content creation, retrieval, and organization experiences, while looking after performance, quality & infrastructure, and ecosystem health of our broader product suite.

At Config 2023, we shipped a redesign of the file browser, introducing a new design language and IA to one of Figma's core product surfaces. We shipped Faceted Search, the ability to apply filters to your queries; File Pinning, a way to share files with your workspace; and improvements to design system propagation.

2020 — 2023
San Francisco, CA

PM on Messenger Calling. I led the Shared Experiences and Growth teams on Messenger Calling, stewarding 30+ contributors across engineering, data science, product design, user research, and marketing.

During my tenure, we shipped the Calls Tab, one of four primary surfaces on Messenger, adding 1M incremental callers. I also founded our experimental bets team, with attributions on several pending patents.

2021 — 2021
San Francisco, CA + New York, NY

I supported the Instagram Live team. During my tenure, we shipped Paid Subscriber Lives, In-Stream Moderation, and Practice Mode.

I also supported the Instagram Video Calling team. We shipped link-based video calling. Built out augmented reality effects, media co-watching, 50 participant support, invite tracking, joining permissions, ringing, and cross-app calling.

2019 — 2019
Mountain View, CA

Co-founded the Confluence Cloud Ecosystem team, expanding API extensibility to unblock customers migrating from on-premise servers to cloud.

2018 — 2018
San Francisco, CA

Contracted product strategy & UXR. I partnered with Chime's Head of User Research on some foundational studies on consumer banking behavior.

Education

Berkeley, CA

Some serendipitous mélange of psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science. Graduated with academic honors.

Berkeley, CA

As it turns out, products need to make money, too!

Contact

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