[1][4] Jo made her acting debut in 2011 with a small role in the daily sitcom I Live in Cheongdam-dong on cable channel JTBC.

[6] In 2012, Jo landed her first major role as a former rich girl who falls for a rocker in tvN's coming-of-age series Shut Up Flower Boy Band.

[7][8][9] Later that year, she appeared in her first network TV series with a supporting role in the MBC period drama The King's Doctor.

[11] Jo was cast in her first film in 2014, as a troubled, seductive teenager who becomes obsessed with her gym teacher in the erotic thriller Innocent Thing.

[14] She then joined the ensemble cast of the KBS weekend family drama All About My Mom,[15][16] and starred in web series Love Cells 2, adapted from the webtoon of the same title.

[28] In 2023, Jo starred in the series Destined With You as a civil servant who stumbles across a secret box that could be the key to ending a solitary lawyer's family curse.