Jen Rhymer is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy & Entrepreneurship Group at UCL School of Management. Her research examines organisational design in a changing world of work: how technology and space shape the way organisations coordinate, collaborate and adapt. Her current work focuses on AI agents in organisations, distributed and hybrid work, and the digital spaces in which work increasingly happens.

Her research has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and has received the AMR Best Paper Award and an OMT Division Best Published Paper finalist nomination. She is a Co-Investigator on a UCL Grand Challenges project on organisational design for AI-augmented workforces, alongside other funded work on AI in distributed teams. She serves on the editorial review board of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and is a founding member of the Work AI Institute at Glean. Her work has been covered by the BBC, the Financial Times, the Guardian, the New York Times and Forbes.

Before joining UCL, Jen was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University’s Center for Work, Technology, and Organizations. She holds a PhD in Technology Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business and a PhD in Structural Engineering from UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering. Earlier she worked as an R&D director at a clean technology startup and as a member of technical staff in aerospace, and was briefly a digital nomad. Together, these experiences shaped her interest in technology, space, and the design of organisations.