# Joanna Oikawa

> Product Design Lead, VS Code

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/joanna

Building powerful and delightful experiences with deep expertise in AI/ML interfaces, productivity tools, and technical product design.

www.joannaoikawa.com

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Designer, VS Code @ Microsoft
Jan 2025 – Present | Redmond, Washington, United States

### Senior UX Designer, AI @ AWS @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Led UX design and strategy for Amazon Q's Developer AI offering in IDEs, creating intuitive interfaces that helped organizations successfully adopt and scale AI-powered development tools
- Designed novel interaction patterns for interpretable AI code generation, achieved new user retention goals through clear feedback loops and transparent system behaviors
- Built and validated enterprise-ready features through extensive research with large organizations, identifying and removing adoption barriers
- Established scalable design system (in collaboration with another designer) that enabled rapid iteration while maintaining consistency across complex AI workflows
- Led team of three designers to design a cohesive set of specialized AI agents, resulting in 30% productivity gains reported from early customers
- Prototyped new concepts in collaboration with scientists to validate technical feasibility and integrate into long-term planning

### Technical Program Manager II, Prime Gaming @ Amazon
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Planned and owned execution of major initiatives for the Game Developer Experience organization, focused on implementing offers across platforms in partnership with first- and third-party game developers
- Improved mechanisms for internal and partner-facing delivery and tooling, directly impacting team velocity

### Product Manager II, Office365 @ Microsoft
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, WA
- Joined the Microsoft Planner team within Office365
- Led initiatives to improve Planner's core experiences and integrations with Teams, Outlook, and ToDo
- Conducted user research to identify and remove enterprise adoption barriers, and partnered with the Accessibility User Research Collective (AURC) to conduct a 50-person study on unique task management needs for people with disabilities
- Established an A/B experimentation program in partnership with Optimizely, running 17 conclusive experiments in first year
- Built robust feedback loops through direct customer engagement, in-person speaking, and building an online community of users

### Product Management Intern @ SAP Concur
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Bellevue, Washington
- Interned on the Site Reliability team, focused on incident management tooling
- Remained on staff part-time during school year to continue managing initiatives

### Industrial Engineering Intern @ McKenney's, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Greater Atlanta Area

### Student Assistant @ Georgia Tech Conference Services
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Greater Atlanta Area


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computational Media
Georgia Institute of Technology

### Master of Arts - MA in Interaction Design and Game Development
Savannah College of Art and Design


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joannaoikawa
- Website: https://joannaoikawa.com

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Last updated: 2026-02-23