Textio CEO and leadership

Kieran is the CEO and Co-Founder of Textio, the augmented writing platform. After earning her PhD in linguistics at Penn, Kieran spent a decade creating the world’s most impactful language products at Microsoft and Amazon. In addition to developing linguistic capabilities like spelling and grammar-checking for more than 100 languages, she led the large-scale effort to integrate the Bing search engine into Microsoft Windows. Kieran is a highly regarded author on language and bias at work. Her writing has appeared in Fortune, The New York Times, Slate, and the Washington Post.

I lead the engineering, product, and design teams at Textio, the augmented writing company I co-founded to create the platform for intelligent writing. With over 150 employees at our Seattle headquarters, Textio has been consistently awarded as one of the very best places to work, including winning #1 best place to work in Washington for 2018-2019.

Always at the intersection of human-computer interaction and productivity software, I have transformed the user experience of some of the most widely-used software in the world, including Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Outlook, and the software that powers the Surface line of laptops and mobile devices.

I have a track record of creating the delightful and innovative experiences used every day by more than a billion people worldwide.

Kieran is the CEO and Co-Founder of Textio, the augmented writing platform. After earning her PhD in linguistics at Penn, Kieran spent a decade creating the world’s most impactful language products at Microsoft and Amazon. In addition to developing linguistic capabilities like spelling and grammar-checking for more than 100 languages, she led the large-scale effort to integrate the Bing search engine into Microsoft Windows. Kieran is a highly regarded author on language and bias at work. Her writing has appeared in Fortune, The New York Times, Slate, and the Washington Post.

I lead the engineering, product, and design teams at Textio, the augmented writing company I co-founded to create the platform for intelligent writing. With over 150 employees at our Seattle headquarters, Textio has been consistently awarded as one of the very best places to work, including winning #1 best place to work in Washington for 2018-2019.

Always at the intersection of human-computer interaction and productivity software, I have transformed the user experience of some of the most widely-used software in the world, including Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Outlook, and the software that powers the Surface line of laptops and mobile devices.

I have a track record of creating the delightful and innovative experiences used every day by more than a billion people worldwide.