Jack Hanlon — CEO

Hi, I'm Jack. I help companies deliver on strategy, execution, and product development by building and leading comprehensive, data-focused digital practices. Currently I'm at Meta, helping them develop state of the art generative AI and translating that into products to benefit our 3B+ global users. I also consult and do speaking engagements for various Fortune 1000 companies as they work to figure out their path forward in this new era. At the same time I'm helping to guide the next wave of amazing talent as a professor in NYU's MBA program where I teach Retail Strategy & Analytics, Retail Math, and the History of Retail. Previously I was at Reddit, building out our Feeds and Search experiences, as well as Reddit's capabilities and practices in ML/AI, Data Science, and Data Platform. Prior to that at Jet.com (and then at Walmart after our acquisition) I focused on helping Customers have a wonderful, personalized experience while getting the products they need and love. In both cases we navigated explosive growth and built diverse, high performing teams. Further back, I co-founded Kinetic Social. Kinetic grew to be one of the largest companies in social media advertising and raised over $40M in funding in 3 years. As a result of our work there I was named one of Forbes "30 under 30" and was invited to join the Young Entrepreneurs Council I care deeply about my role in the global community and am an Advisory Board Member at Crisis Text Line and Code for Democracy and was a pro-bono strategic advisor for Empowerment Health. My diverse experience matched with an ability to communicate effectively in both words and data provides me with the ability to manage global teams on challenging projects, particularly those that focus on unstructured problems. Let me help you get real leverage out of data, for your customers, for your teams, and for your business -- it's what I love.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C SaaS expert with a strong focus on AI and data-driven product development.

Location: New York City, New York, United States

Experience: 19 yrs 7 mos

Career Highlights

Led AI product development at Meta for 3B+ users.
Grew Reddit's team from 21 to 250+ in data roles.
Co-founded Kinetic Social, raising over $40M in 3 years.

Work Experience

Career Break

Personal goal pursuit (6 mos)

Code for Democracy

Advisory Board Member (6 yrs 7 mos)

Reddit, Inc.

VP Feeds, AI, Search, and Data (3 yrs 6 mos)

Zytara Inc.

Advisory Board Member (6 yrs 8 mos)

Crisis Text Line

Advisory Board Member (7 yrs 3 mos)

NYU Stern School of Business

Professor (8 yrs 4 mos)

Walmart

VP, Analytics & Insights (2 yrs 10 mos)

Jet.com

VP, Data (4 yrs 2 mos)

Kinetic Social

Co-founder / VP of Product (3 yrs 6 mos)

Online Intelligence

Product Manager (1 yr)

Google

Analyst (1 yr)

Better World Books

Voice of the Brand (2 yrs)

Mercury Engineering

Analyst (1 yr)

Education

at College of the Holy Cross

Master of Science (M.S.) at New York University

at St Peters Prep

Jack Hanlon

CEO

New York City, New York, United States19 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led AI product development at Meta for 3B+ users.
Grew Reddit's team from 21 to 250+ in data roles.
Co-founded Kinetic Social, raising over $40M in 3 years.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C SaaS expert with a strong focus on AI and data-driven product development.

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Skills

Other Skills

Operational EfficiencyProduct ManagementResearchFinancial AnalysisData AnalysisSocial MediaOnline AdvertisingDisplay AdvertisingBig DataAgile Project ManagementProject ManagementPerformance ImprovementStrategyMarket ResearchAnalytics

About

Experience

19 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

8 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Career break

Personal goal pursuit

Apr 2023 – Oct 2023 · 6 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

Taking time off to focus on things I love doing outside of work to recharge after completing my plan at Reddit: working on my sailing skipper certification prepping for a sail in the Mediterranean, actually shipping some code again (ask me about my insanely over-elaborate F1 fantasy team simulation program...), writing and performing music, and catching up on an increasingly menacing looking stack of books.

Code for democracy

Advisory Board Member

Oct 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

Reddit, inc.

VP Feeds, AI, Search, and Data

Oct 2019 – Apr 2023 · 3 yrs 6 mos

On Reddit's exec team, helped take company through S1.
Lead Product, Eng, and Data for:
Feeds
Search
AI & Machine Learning
Data Science
Data Platform
Data Tools
Data Products
First Exec at Reddit in this area, across both our Consumer and Ads teams. Grew a global team from 21 to 250+, including leading the purchase of two companies, to help guide the experience for our XXXM+ monthly active users and our advertisers.
Boosted company revenue by over 20% in year 2 via deploying ML at scale in the user experience for the first time in the company's history.

Zytara inc.

Advisory Board Member

Sep 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 8 mos

Crisis text line

Advisory Board Member

Feb 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 3 mos · Greater New York City Area

Nyu stern school of business

Professor

Jan 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 4 mos · Greater New York City Area

I teach "Retail Strategy & Analytics," "Retail History," and "Retail Math" as part of NYU's one-of-a-kind Fashion & Retail MBA as well as the traditional MBA and part-time MBA programs.

Walmart

VP, Analytics & Insights

Aug 2016 – Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Hoboken, New Jersey, United States

(Jet was acquired by Walmart, served as VP on Jet's Exec team as part of Walmart eCommerce group)

Jet.com

VP, Data

Apr 2015 – Jun 2019 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Greater New York City Area

Stood up Analytics & Data practice at Jet as a pre-launch startup. Served on the Executive Team and led the Consumer Analytics, Marketing Analytics, Research, Core Data Science, Experimentation, and Personalization teams, for both Data and Product.
Jet was acquired by Walmart in September 2016 for $3.3B, 13 months after launch.