James Friedman

CEO

Orlando, Florida, United States20 yrs 1 mo experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven track record of scaling teams and platforms.
Experience in launching innovative SaaS products.
Contributed to multiple startup exits and acquisitions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Leader with extensive experience in design and engineering.

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Skills

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ActionScriptAngularJSCSSCSS3CakePHPCross-functional CollaborationsDesign ThinkingDjangoFlashGasGraphic DesignGraphic Design PrinciplesHTML 5HTML5Illustrator

About

James Friedman is Head of Product at Cinder and the former co-founder of QuickCrash, acquired by Mark43 in 2019. At Mark43, he scaled the Core Services Division and launched a next-generation Jail Management System in the US and UK. He previously grew Domo’s design system and product team from Series B through IPO and has contributed to multiple startup exits with acquisitions by Amazon, Qlik, and Zynga Co-founders. With experience across product, design, and engineering, James has a proven track record of scaling teams and platforms from early stage through acquisition and IPO.

Experience

Cinder

Head of Product

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · United States · Remote

Mark43

Director of Product

Jul 2020 – Feb 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

Self-employed

Independent Consultant

Apr 2017 – Feb 2024 · 6 yrs 10 mos · Greater Orlando

https://jamesmfriedman.com

Big squid, inc.

Director of Design + Full Stack Engineer

Apr 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Salt Lake City, Utah

Responsible for product UX and UI strategy. Implemented reusable component library and patterns. Architected, built, scaled, deployed, paired, trained, and released multiple projects. Contributed to multiple OSS projects. Planned an executed on a strategy for micro front ends in React.

Domo, inc.

Senior UX Designer

Mar 2014 – Apr 2017 · 3 yrs 1 mo

360ed, inc.

Lead Developer / Designer

Jun 2011 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Headed up a design and front end overhaul of an online product for McGraw Hill. Architected a generic framework called Primer on top of Django. Architected a generic LMS platform and built http://languagelive.voyagerlearning.com on top of it in collaboration with Cambium Learning Group.

University of central florida

Web Applications Developer

Dec 2006 – Jun 2011 · 4 yrs 6 mos

Worked inside of the College of Sciences web services department to deliver print and web materials to all staff and faculty within the college. Built an online portal for use within the department using CakePHP, including ticketing and a file vault.