Jacob Kirsch

Product Manager

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States6 yrs 11 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Experienced in leading product management at top tech companies.
  • Strong background in software development and user experience.
  • Passionate about teaching and mentoring in technology.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Development and Education specialist with a focus on user experience and product management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Program ManagementTeachingSoftware Development

Other Skills

.NETUX ResearchCustomer ResearchSoftware EngineeringPythonRData AnalysisSparkScriptingText ParsingGraphingClusteringBeautiful SoupSQLAPI

About

He / Him / His. Currently: MBA at Harvard Business School. Previously: Program Manager at GitHub and Microsoft. Proudly Gay, Proudly Jewish.

Experience

6 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Github

2 roles

Product Manager III, Copilot Productivity

Promoted

Jan 2024May 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

Product Manager

Jul 2022Jan 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

Microsoft

Program Manager

Jun 2020Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

  • Program Manager for the .NET MAUI team at Microsoft. Lead the development of multiple product features to improve the developer experience for .NET users. I work closely with the UX Research team to run customer research and help drive clarity for software engineering teams.
.NETUX ResearchCustomer ResearchSoftware EngineeringProgram Management

University of michigan - school of information

2 roles

Instructor's Assistant - SI 618

Sep 2019May 2020 · 8 mos · Ann Arbor, Michigan

  • Instructor's Assistant in a Graduate course teaching students on data harvesting. processing, and aggregation. Teaching students in Python and R. Topics include data analysis, Spark, scripting, text parsing, graphing, and clustering methods.
PythonRData AnalysisSparkScriptingText Parsing+3

Instructional Aide - SI 206

Jan 2018Jan 2020 · 2 yrs · Ann Arbor, Michigan

  • Instructional Aide for SI 206: Data - Oriented Programming. Currently responsible for Weekly office hours to support students learning of Python, Beautiful Soup, SQL, and API use. Tasked with weekly grading of problem sets, projects, and exams, as well as the creation of new assignments.
PythonBeautiful SoupSQLAPITeaching

Microsoft

2 roles

Program Manager Intern

May 2019Aug 2019 · 3 mos · Greater Boston Area

  • Worked on the Xamarin team out of the Cambridge, Massachusetts office. Focused on developing clarity of who Xamarin.Forms customers and what customers need from Xamarin.Forms. Led feature improvement for Xamarin.Forms specific tooling.
C#.NET CoreSoftware Development

Explorer Intern at Microsoft

May 2018Aug 2018 · 3 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Worked within .NET Core Performance and Reliability. Used C# and .NET Core to develop cross-platform performance monitors. Gained a strong understanding of assembly-level .NET characteristics.
C#.NET CoreSoftware Development

The coding space

Teacher

Jun 2017Aug 2017 · 2 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Taught students ages 8 to 15 the languages of HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Created daily plans to help student reach their goals and focus on learning to program. Developed and created curriculum following the socratic method to better engage students and support student learning.
HTMLCSSJavascriptTeaching

Education

Harvard Business School

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Aug 2025May 2027

University of Michigan

Bachelor's degree — Information Science & Computer Science

Jan 2016Jan 2020

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