Hi, I'm Jensen.
Variously a CEO, designer, startup founder, executive coach, user experience architect, tech executive, T‑group facilitator, engineering leader, product thinker, storyteller.
I’m fortunate enough to have led teams that designed and built some of the world’s best-known software.
Some of the things I’ve created
What I do
While I officially have a degree in music, I’ve designed and built software my entire life.
Most of my career has been spent at the intersection of user experience design and software engineering; I’ve led teams grappling with some of the thorniest and most interesting challenges in productivity software.
I love taking on complex, unsolved problems, and engineering elegant, beautiful, and intuitive solutions that bring people joy.
My passion for complexity also extends to the interpersonal realm—I’m also an executive coach and facilitate T‑groups to help founders and startup executives become more interpersonally skillful leaders.
I am on Mastodon.
Bio
Jensen Harris is CEO of Textio, the innovative software startup he co-founded as CTO in 2014 with the mission of building technology that creates understanding between people. As the creative visionary behind breakthroughs like augmented writing and the Flow generative writing experience, Jensen has been at the forefront of building remarkable user interfaces on top of artificial intelligence technology. He leads Textio’s engineering, product, and design teams.
Jensen is known for designing beautiful, powerful, and forward-thinking products that are used every day by a billion people. In a 15-year career at Microsoft, he guided the creation of some of the most widely-used and influential software in the world: the innovative Ribbon user interface of Microsoft Office, the often-imitated email design of Microsoft Outlook, and the pioneering touch-optimized software experience built for Microsoft Surface.
A graduate of Yale University and Interlochen Arts Academy with degrees in music composition, Jensen speaks worldwide on topics of human/computer interaction, user interface design, startup leadership, and software engineering. He lives in Seattle with his wife, three girls, and two cats.