Sam Beder

Product Manager

San Francisco, California, United States14 yrs 4 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led product vision for Pinterest's recommendation system.
  • First product manager at Ubiquity6, driving innovation.
  • Pioneered Android Things for IoT product development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager with expertise in Social Media and IoT technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementData AnalysisMachine LearningStartup DevelopmentIot DevelopmentData ScienceConsulting

Other Skills

AndroidPythonJavaC++MatlabPublic SpeakingDiscrete MathematicsLeadershipGame TheorySoftware Project ManagementProduct DevelopmentStrategySocial MediaCSSC

Experience

14 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 11 mos
Average Tenure
8 mos
Current Experience

Netflix

Product Manager, Ads Modeling & Optimization

Sep 2025Present · 8 mos

Product ManagementData Analysis

Pinterest

Product Manager

May 2020Sep 2025 · 5 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

  • I am a product leader on Pinterest’s core recommendation system, driving our product vision and key machine learning innovations to bring hundreds of millions of people the inspiration to create a life they love. I also lead the whole page optimization efforts between our ads and organic organizations, ensuring we show the right content to the right Pinners at the right time.
Product ManagementMachine Learning

Ubiquity6 inc.

Product Lead

Jan 2018May 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Acquired by Discord
  • First product manager at Ubiquity6. Ubiquity6 raised $43M+ from Benchmark, Index Ventures, First Round Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Google’s Gradient Ventures, and Disney to build the future of communication.
Product ManagementStartup Development

Google

Product Manager

Jul 2014Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • I was a product lead for Android Things, a new vertical of Android for connected devices. Android Things gives developers a comprehensive way to build IoT products with the power of Android. Developers can leverage the Android tools, APIs, and ecosystem to build devices as easily as apps. We provide turnkey hardware solutions that reduce barrier to entry and allow products to scale. Developers also get access to Google services, such as the Google Assistant and other Google services, as well as our security and update infrastructure.
  • As the earliest product manager on Android Things, I was responsible for many of our key milestones:
  • Launched Android Things developer preview: developer.android.com/things
  • Google IO '17 Speaker: Using TensorFlow and Google Cloud with Android Things: https://goo.gl/1yXUge
  • Authored three patents on securing IoT devices
  • Previously:
  • Image Search PM (July 2014 - July 2015)
  • APM Class of 2014
Product ManagementIoT Development

Palantir technologies

Backend Software Developer

Jan 2013Jan 2013 · 0 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

205 consulting

Cofounder

Aug 2012Jul 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • 205 Consulting was a data science consulting firm that provided services to early- and mid-stage startups that are struggling to make sense of their data. We were five Stanford and Columbia math/CS alumni and undergraduates specializing in natural language processing and machine learning algorithms, specifically those leveraging graph structures in datasets. We provided services to mCASH (mCASH.no), RelinkLabs (Relink.no), Cognoa (Cognoa.com), NeoReach (neoreach.com), SpotOn (SpotOn.it) and NGB Markets (ngbmarkets.com).
Data ScienceConsulting

Google

Software Engineer

Jun 2012Sep 2012 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Intel corporation

Technical Programmer

Jun 2011Sep 2011 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

The johns hopkins university applied physics laboratory

Software Programmer

Jun 2010Sep 2010 · 3 mos · Baltimore, Maryland Area

Education

Stanford University

Master's Degree — Computer Science

Stanford University

Bachelor's Degree — Mathematics

McDaniel College Budapest

Mathematics

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