Summary
Janice Kim is a founding product designer and dual-degree graduate in Engineering and Design from the University of Pennsylvania with nine years of experience solving complex, data-rich product problems. She specializes in 0→1 concept visioning, product strategy, and building design systems that scale across platform teams, having shipped foundational systems at Benchling and led early design at startups as the first hire at Confido. Janice combines product rigor from engineering training with craft-forward design instincts, prototyping for AI and lab automation products and partnering closely with cross-functional teams. As a fractional designer she’s helped VC-backed startups and unicorns translate ambitious technical bets into usable experiences, and she’s comfortable wearing many hats from UX to front-end implementation. Off the clock she’s rated over 1,400 restaurants, grows vegetables on her balcony, and once bookbound a 500-page satire—not for reading but for the practice—hinting at a maker’s curiosity that informs her design process.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Science at Penn Engineering
Bachelor of Arts - BA Design, Bachelor of Arts - BA Design at University of Pennsylvania