Jiani Zeng

Co-founder, Chief Product Officer at Butlr

Jiani Zeng is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Butlr, a position held since January 2019. Prior to this, Jiani served as a Research Affiliate within the HCI Engineering Group at MIT CSAIL from October 2019 to October 2021. Experience also includes roles at Seymourpowell as Foresight + Product Design, at the MIT Media Lab as a Research Assistant, and at the MIT Design Lab as a Design Researcher. Jiani began a career in engineering as a Development Engineer (Management Associate) at Hilti Group from January 2015 to July 2016. Academic credentials include a Master’s of Science in Engineering and Management (Design) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an exchange program in Industrial Design at UNSW, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Product Design and Manufacture from The University of Nottingham Ningbo China.

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Butlr

Butlr is an independent technology studio based in downtown San Francisco. We build amazing software and games for ourselves and select partners. So we are a new betaworks focusing on the education and non-profit sectors.Our build cycles for most of the products we build is about six weeks. If it makes money in the market or shows traction weinvest more time and energy. If it does not, we kill the product and move on. The strategy has been effective and we have launched 5 products to date and growing.Edit


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