Jenny Wen

Jenny Wen worked as a designer at ShopifyShopifyShopify is a commerce software company that originated in Ottawa, Canada, providing merchants with tools for online stores, physical retail, payments, orders and inventory management. The business began with Snowdevil, an online snowboard store founded in 2004 by Tobias Lütke and others, and the standalone e-commerce platform launched in 2006. The company went public in 2015 and now trades under the ticker SHOP on Nasdaq and the Toronto Stock Exchange.Open the full entry, Square and Dropbox early in her career. At Dropbox she worked on Dropbox Paper.⁠[1][2]

In October 2019 Wen had her first launch at Figma, working with Rasmus Andersson on the first version of Figma Community alongside a refresh of the file browser.⁠[2]

When Figma launched plugins in November 2019, she used the plugin API to build the Word Count plugin.⁠[2]

Wen spent most of 2020 driving the direction and leading the design of FigJam. She designed its core launch experience, including shapes, sticky notes, text and their core interactions, as well as cursor chat, emotes and reactions. FigJam launched in April 2021.⁠[2]

In April 2021 she hosted the first day of Config 2021, Figma’s annual user conference, and gave a talk with Emily Lin and Priya Kotak on how FigJam was made.⁠[2]

In November 2021 she designed the end-to-end experience of FigJam templates, bringing the Figma Community’s best templates directly into the product; for the launch of FigJam widgets she also used the new widget API to make the This or that poll widget and the Word magnets tool.⁠[2]

In April 2023 Wen was a product design manager at Figma, where her team worked on FigJam. In a Q&A with Designer Fund she called herself a “weird, block-shaped designer.”⁠[3]

In May 2023 she joined the spring cohort of First Round’s Angel Track to begin angel investing. In June 2023 she gave the talk “Putting joy on the roadmap” at Config with Mihika Kapoor and Keeyen Yeo, and hosted Config on the main stage in front of 8,000 people.⁠[2]

In November 2023 FigJam launched a bundle of AI features, including summarization, clustering, board generation and Jambot; Wen supported the team that built them.⁠[2]

In June 2024 Figma launched its third product, Figma Slides; Wen supported Keeyen Yeo, Khalil Cader and Jakub Swiadek through the year in which they launched it.⁠[2]

She later became Director of Design at Figma, leading the products and teams behind FigJam, Slides, Figma Buzz, Sites CMS, Community and Growth.⁠[2][1]

Wen left her director role at Figma to return to individual-contributor work at Anthropic. Her first project there was leading a visual redesign of Claude.ai, refreshing its look and feel, removing some features and tightening details; it shipped in March 2025.⁠[1][2]

In September 2025 she shared, under the title “Don’t trust the process,” how she had seen teams start to work differently, especially with AI-first tooling; she said the talk resonated with one group of people and was controversial with another.⁠[2]

In January 2026 Anthropic launched Cowork, its general-purpose agent. Wen had set the product’s vision earlier in 2025 and also worked on its execution, including pushing pull requests, and on its growth after launch.⁠[2]

In March 2026 Anthropic shipped DispatchDispatchDispatch (디스패치) is a Seoul-based South Korean entertainment news website founded in 2011 by former reporters of 스포츠서울닷컴. It is known for exclusive celebrity dating reports backed by photographs, has faced privacy lawsuits and petitions calling for its closure, and since 2022 has won several Journalist of the Month awards from the Journalists Association of Korea.Open the full entry for Cowork and Claude Code, a way to have Claude do tasks while the user is away from the keyboard; Wen was part of the launch.⁠[2]

On March 1, 2026, Lenny’s Podcast released an interview with Wen as head of design at Claude, covering why the classic discovery–mock–iterate design process is becoming obsolete, her day-to-day work and AI tool stack at Anthropic, and why she left a director role at Figma to return to individual-contributor work.⁠[1]

In July 2026 Wen left Anthropic and joined the AI coding tool Cursor as head of design, announcing the move publicly on X.⁠[4][2]

Personal website: https://jennywen.ca/ (opens in a new window).⁠[2]

X: Public account: https://x.com/jenny_wen (opens in a new window).⁠[2][1]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennywen/ (opens in a new window).⁠[2]