Jonathan Yang

Jonathan Yang

Product Manager at Figma in Brooklyn, NY

About

Product at Figma, previously Messenger and Instagram. I like rockskipping, well-balanced utensils, and wall-mounted shelving.

Work Experience

2023 — Now
New York, NY

I lead the product teams working on file browser (figma.com) and search. We build better content creation, retrieval, and organization experiences for teams of all sizes.

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.

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.

Contact

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