Hi, I'm Jensen.
Incessant builder, designer, startup founder, ex-CEO, T‑group facilitator. Founded and built one of the first AI-native software companies, operating since 2014.
I’m fortunate enough to have been part of building some of the world’s most innovative and best-known software.
Some of the things I’ve created
What I do
While my academic degree is in music, I’ve designed and built software my entire life.
Most of my career has been spent at the intersection of user experience 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 building 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.
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Bio
Jensen Harris is Co-founder and a Board Member of Textio, the AI software startup he co-founded as CTO in 2014. He was CEO of the company until 2026, where he built and launched Lavalier, the world’s best candidate interview intelligence platform.
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 AI technology. Textio was among the earliest companies to commercialize generative LLM technology and transformer models years before ChatGPT.
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.