About Me

Jessica Lattif is the Not Working in Tech founder, a recovering big-tech leader, champion of the underdog, fierce advocate of Taking Your Fucking Leave, and a mom to 2 kids growing up in Oakland, California

Jess started out in the food world, with a Master’s of Science in nutrition and food policy. After a stint starting and running a seafood business, she moved into tech and spent more than a decade in leadership roles at Meta, Salesforce, and Stripe. She built crisis response tools, led infrastructure teams, and launched products at scale…and was quite good at it, pushing the boundaries of what tech can do. But the longer she stayed, the more it cost her—her boundaries first, then her health, her peace, her time, and her sense of self.

So she did something most people don’t feel “allowed” to do: she walked away. No neat plan. No tidy exit. Just a growing clarity that staying meant slowly disappearing, ultimately being replaced by the shell of the human she was becoming. Walking away made room for what was next — Not Working in Tech.

Now, Jessica helps others get what she needed most: the chance to pause, reflect, and reclaim their way forward, personally and professionally. She works with individuals and organizations to pinpoint and resolve what’s not working, and to reimagine healthier, more human ways to show up at work in technology. Through speaking, writing, retreats, and consulting, she’s building a culture of care—one centered on rest, reflection, and resistance.

Her approach is deeply personal. As a half-Jewish, half-Lebanese-American woman who’s sensitive and neurodivergent, she’s spent her life as a perpetual outsider. She’s always deeply observing, thinking, analyzing, questioning, and pattern-matching. Now it’s time to share the wisdom she’s gained from her unique vantage points. The outsider's lens helps her empathize quickly and cut through the noise to what really matters: how people feel and what they need to thrive.