Jenny Ye
From uncertainty to clarity: product skills, career growth, confidence
Works at Microsoft
Available Saturday at 7:00 PM UTC
My calendar is flexible so if the current times don't work for you or your needs are time-sensitive, please feel free to reach out to find a common time that may work better!
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Jenny's Coaching Offerings
Custom hourly · $125/hr
Get help with Cover Letters, General Exploration, and .
Jenny’s Product Management Qualifications
Experience level: Product Manager
60+ people coached for Product Management
With over 6 years of experience at Microsoft as a Product Manager, I have extensive experience leading cross-functional teams and aligning on hard problems while ensuring all voices are heard, especially in innovation spaces like IoT and building agentic experiences. My journey has equipped me with a deep understanding of user needs and the ability to translate them into actionable product features. I've successfully coached over 30 individuals across varying levels of experience and backgrounds, helping them navigate the complexities of product management and achieve their career goals, where they have landed roles in Apple, Microsoft, Google, Slack, and more. I have also been closely involved with recruiting to bring in interns/new grads and industry hires for our next wave of talent. Whether you're looking to break into product management, understand the various opportunities available to you based on your background, advance your career, or more, I'm here to provide tailored guidance and support. Please feel free to reach out, I would love to be part of your journey~
Jenny can help with:
Cover Letters
General Exploration
Skill Building
Strategy & Vision
Resume Review
Frameworks
Behavioral Interview Prep
Salary Negotiation
Execution
Networking Strategy
Promotion Strategy
LinkedIn Review
Influence & Collaboration
Product Case Interview Prep
Freelancing
About Jenny
Hi! I'm Jenny! I am passionate about user driven products, and love being in environments where I am surrounded by people who are just as passionate as I am in building meaningful products that will positively impact its users. I have over 7 years of experience in product management, building LLM and agentic experiences, platforms, UX strategy, and full stack development. I'm currently a Product Manager at Microsoft working on Copilot for Microsoft Word to build agentic experiences, where I work deeply with user research, design, engineering, applied science, and internal partners on how Word can empower work and collaboration from anywhere. I love working cross team and cross discipline to align on hard problems and build trust, and have worked extensively across design, user research, and engineering to drive clarity and define the strategy of large, ambiguous areas while ensuring that all voices are heard. My goals as a coach and mentor are to support and empower you on your career journey, whether that is providing actionable feedback, creating clarity, growing a particular set of skills, and more. My role is to listen with intention, ask questions, anchor to your goals, and empower you to actualize that you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Outside of work I love spending my time teaching my dog Cosmodious Thunder new tricks, hiking, camping, knitting, and judging hackathons. Ask me about: building agentic experiences, dog training and behavior, knitting, building accessible products, and learning how to fail. You can learn more about me at jenny-ye.com
Work Experience
Product Manager 2
Microsoft
January 2022 - Present
Word Product Team - Word Copilot and Agentic Experiences - Identify the user needs and established the mental model to align on a common strategy for building agentic experiences. Built a prototype demonstrating the agentic UX interaction model to drive clarity on how agents fit into users' established workflows alongside agent-to-agent interactions. - Partner with Design, Eng, AS, and UXR to translate emerging content generation LLM capabilities into enterprise ready Copilot features in Word. Pioneered a bespoke customer co-development process and interviewed over 30+ enterprises to find sales barriers and valuable use cases. Applied those insights to influence LLM model parameters of the feature area. Awarded a patent for Format Reuse Engine(s) for Preserving Formatting During Content Generation. - Align on the strategy and direction for 3P agentic scenarios to determine opportunities to explore on-canvas experiences and how to leverage data as a differentiator. Part of the Word DIB v-team to facilitate and provide culture and team health conversations.
Product Manager 2
Microsoft
September 2021 - January 2022
Azure Internet of Things (IoT) Platform and Devices Team working on our device management strategy by aligning cross-team, cross-discipline, and across the Platform to drive long-term partnership and trust. Leveraged these partnerships to drive clarity and alignment around long-term roadmap. Worked deeply between design, user researchers, and engineering to translate user needs into actionable feature requirements. Led IoT's early-in-career program to build an engaged community, provide career growth/development opportunities and facilitate mentorship. Also led IoT's intern program and university recruiting hiring, monthly D&I book club, and team health workshops across the org.
Product Manager
Microsoft
April 2020 - September 2021
Azure Internet of Things (IoT) Platform and Devices Team working on IoT Hub's high availability, disaster recovery, reliability, and device management - Managed the integration of an IoT security acquisition to connect on-premises security solutions into a cloud-connected experience across all of IoT Platform - Worked cross-team across Platform to support partnerships and integrations - Gathered user pain points through user research and leveraged insights into in-depth gap analysis of IoT's device management story to drive business opportunities and determine the future of device management. Created IoT's early-in-career program to build an engaged community, provide career growth/development opportunities, and facilitate mentorship. Also created IoT's intern program, monthly D&I book club, and team health workshops across the org.
Product Manager - Intern
Microsoft
May 2019 - August 2019
Azure Internet of Things (IoT) Platform Team working on device management and Plug and Play. In particular, driving various enhancements to IoT Edge's automatic deployments, including layered deployments, automatic configurations for module twins, and a revamped UI for IoT Edge automatic deployments.
Product Manager - Intern
Microsoft
May 2018 - August 2018
Azure Internet of Things (IoT) Platform Team working on the Device Provisioning Service to optimize devices provisioning to the IoT Hub. Focused on customer validation, feature requirements, and go-to-market plans to automate processes in the provisioning service.
Technical Program Manager Intern
Hulu
May 2017 - August 2017
Managed the internal system integration as the company shifts from an in-house system to multiple third party systems, including Operative.One, STAQ, Salesforce, and Yieldex. Worked with dev leads/architects, business leads, and third party vendors to plan and implement the scope of the integration. Documented business and functional requirements, as well as tracked and followed up on project tasks among team members. Created complete project plans for end-to-end delivery with appropriate documentation.
Software Engineer Intern
Microsoft
July 2016 - December 2016
Worked on a new feature called Network Watcher as part of the Azure Networking Team. Built cross platform mobile app using cordova and ionic to view analytics and diagnostics of vms, metrics, limits, and more. Demoed app to Azure Networking CVPs and released app internally
Jenny was also given offers to work at
Uber
Hulu
Roblox
Salesforce
Yahoo
Google
Atlassian