Josh Benjamin
I'm a Product Manager currently Head of Product at Story Jam.
I’m passionate about well-designed applications on mobile and web. I ran a series of startups before transitioning into product management, so I'm a Technical UX-inclined Visionary who can take products 0 to 1 and do PMF-expansion. I couple innovative thinking with a focus on finding the right questions to ask and iterating on the best ideas to build great products.I believe in joyfully pursuing meaningful impact while embracing growth and am grateful to apply my background in engineering, design, and psychology.I love supporting great founders. 1:1 product coaching is available for funded startups. Book time to chat about how I can help.
StoryJam.ai
I cofounded a startup backed by ODX and explored GPT before it was cool. Built Story Jam and Character Jam to address the youth literacy crisis, and two more projects for fun: Rap Jam and Verbal Kombat.
Multitudes
During the pandemic, I built an online team-building platform that used a novel UX and playful experiences (no longer live)
Lifechime
I built Lifechime, an iOS app that is the most personally meaningful project I ever worked on.
Monkey Inferno
I love the challenge of bringing an idea to life. I started a web hosting company in High School during the dotcom era, before graduating in Computer Science and Psychology from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.I joined the Monkey Inferno idea lab where I dug into startups. I launched and redesigned 5 consumer products in two years, some fun, and some with 50M+ users and $1M+ ARR.
iPhoto
I worked at Apple on rendering engines and UI for iPhoto, and system integrity for Mac OS X. Before that, I worked on mobile usability at Motorola for an unreleased OS.
Teaching Yoga
In early 2018, I started teaching a couple yoga classes each week, primarily at Divine Yoga Studio in SOMA. It has been such a lovely complement to software work.