Her Story
About Jennifer
Jennifer Won is Team Lead of Generative AI (Voice) at Meta, where she began as a contractor four months ago and was promoted within one month. She brings a unique background to the role, having earned a bachelor's degree in linguistics from Berkeley before entering tech. Her career includes two years at Facebook as a Korean market specialist during the early launches of Facebook Live and Instagram Live, followed by three years as an AI linguist at AWS starting in 2021, where she contributed to the pioneering integration of linguists into AI development. She later helped establish a new team at Google before joining Meta. Won attributes her success to the ability to zoom out, zoom in, and remain centered, principles that also inform her values of integrity and her approach to navigating rapid changes in data and information architecture while maintaining focus.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Jennifer
01What do you attribute your success to?
My success would be the ability to zoom out, zoom in, and being able to be centered. I think those are the most successful someone could be.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Be open, be curious, and where I'm curious, it's like where you're meant to be. I got that from Steve Jobs in one of his podcasts.
03What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
With how fast data and information architecture is being updated, the challenge is how do we stay up to date but at the same time not being too fluid, being able to have a backbone, and how do I stay centered when there's so many things changing.
04What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Being in integrity with the very moment you're in, and being able to be in touch with what you're actually feeling, and being able to zoom out, being able to zoom in. My value is definitely integrity.
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