Jenny Dong

🔄 Technical Program Manager

France

About

Mechatronics Engineer by education, product-minded technologist by practice. Diversified across hardware, software, and systems. Trilingual on Fridays. Funny on good days. 🌍 Experience across global startups and Fortune 500 companies, working in: USA (SF Bay Area) • Canada (Toronto, Ottawa) • EU (Amsterdam, Paris) 🚀 I helped ship hard, consumer-facing technology, including: • Apple — AirTags & MagSafe ecosystem • NXP — Autonomous driving & embedded systems • Dott — Circular micromobility at scale • Grove XR — Educational VR platforms 🗓️ Typical Tuesdays have involved some mix of: • Product roadmapping & cross-functional alignment • Automated testing & validation • Rapid prototyping (hardware & software) • Event coordination & stakeholder wrangling • Backcountry skiing, outdoor climbing, runway walking • Doing whatever my manager and/or mom needs done by Wednesday ♻️ Obsessed with resource efficiency — waste is bad UX, whether it’s time, food, energy, or inventory. 📚 Learning & exploring independently / let’s talk about: • Circular economy & circular product design • Resource-efficient systems & operations • Degrowth 🔎 Interests: product engineering, hardware–software systems, sustainability, circular design, mobility, and shipping the hard things that improve societal well-being.

Experience

  • Senior Technical Program Manager at Back Market
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Senior Engineering Program Manager at Dott
    Mar 2022 - Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Vice President at Grove XR
    Mar 2021 - Sep 2021 · 7 mos

  • Software Engineer, Test Automation at Apple
    Aug 2019 - Mar 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

    Accessories QA

  • Model at Gemini Modeling Agency
    Jan 2019 - Feb 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos