Jessica Phan

Jessica Phan

Jessica Phan

Serial Founding Designer. Generalist.

Serial founding designer and creative leader with expertise across edtech, crypto, ecomm, HR tech, and enterprise software. I thrive in 0→1 spaces, building products, brands, and teams from scratch. Currently at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, I am exploring AI’s impact and possibilities on education.

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Experience

Chan Zuckerberg InitiativeStaff Product Designer

2024 — Now

2024 — Now

Designed for AI developer tools for Education, cutting evaluation cycles from 10 weeks → 5 days

Built decision tools for our annotation process to improve accuracy

Led design for developer docs and partner playgrounds

JP DesignsAdvisor & Independent Design Consultant

2014 — Now

2014 — Now

San Francisco Bay Area

Designed products and brands (Clients include Weee!, UmeTea, OpenSea.io, TheLibrarian.io, NYU, Wakecap, and Riverside Company)

HathorwayFounder

2018 — Now

2018 — Now

Redwood City

Built sustainable jewelry brand featured in Fortune, Vogue, SFMOMA and Netflix

Managed design, production, marketing, and e-commerce

Vault.fmHead of Design

2022 — 2024

2022 — 2024

Vault.fm (formerly Sound.xyz)

Shipped first iOS and web apps (0→1), onboarding, chat, and listening experiences

Defined brand and creative direction in web3 music

Built creator tools driving artist adoption

Player + coach

OpenSeaHead of Design

2021 — 2022

2021 — 2022

Founding designer, scaled and managed the design team from a team of 1 to 6 including product, brand, design system, and content

Launched first iOS app, brand identity, and core marketplace features

Built our design culture, initial design system, and design hiring process

Education

Academy of Art University

MFA

San José State University

BA