Irena Lam

Irena is currently a Product Manager at Meta and has built products ranging from music to podcasts to Reels. She comes from a nontraditional background having first started her career in Program Management / Account Management at Microsoft before breaking into product at a startup called Karat as their first PM hire.

She’s passionate about empathy and human-driven design and most recently has been studying tech ethics and how she can better advocate responsible innovation as a product leader.

She currently resides in San Francisco but had previously spent her life and career in Seattle.