Jay Cho
Senior Product Designer at Microsoft
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJay Cho is a Senior Product Designer with a decade of experience blending design, technology, and business to craft human-centered digital products. Currently at Microsoft, he brings startup grit from co-founding Arori Education and leadership experience as Design Lead at Synapse, where he partnered closely with behavioral scientists to improve product usability. Trained in Industrial and Product Design at RISD with additional coursework at MIT Sloan and Brown, he bridges research-driven strategy with hands-on interaction design. His background spans corporate trend forecasting at LG to measurable growth work—such as improving conversion through storefront UX—showing an ability to translate insights into business impact. Jay is known for iterative prototyping and cross-disciplinary collaboration that uncovers subtle user behaviors and turns them into richer daily interactions. Based in New York, he combines a systems view of product with a tactile design sensibility that surfaces unexpected opportunities for delight.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Coursework Computer Science Entrepreneurship Capstone, Coursework Computer Science Entrepreneurship Capstone at Brown UniversityCoursework Product Design and Development, Coursework Product Design and Development at MIT Sloan School of ManagementBachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) Industrial and Product Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) Industrial and Product Design at Rhode Island School of Design
English, Korean
Github Skills (6)
converting9
traceroute8
csv7
network-monitoring6
monitoring5
azure4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Azure-Samples/networking-dotnet-log-converter
Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:37 commits, 13 pushes in 6 months
downloadingcsvlogs-monitoringnetwork-monitoringcsv-files
JayHCho/demo-initial-checkin
Sep 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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