Ted Helwick

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States20 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven track record in scaling multi-billion dollar businesses.
Expertise in monetization strategies across messaging platforms.
Strong leadership in product management and corporate development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Executive specializing in monetization strategies within the Social Networking and Fintech industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product StrategyGrowth ManagementMonetization StrategyProduct ManagementBusiness DevelopmentGrowth OperationsAnalyticsCorporate DevelopmentAcquisition StrategyCorporate StrategyMergers And Acquisitions

Other Skills

MonetizationTeam LeadershipProduct DevelopmentTeam BuildingBusiness StrategyStrategyStrategic PartnershipsStart-upsMergers & AcquisitionsCompetitive AnalysisFinancial ModelingStrategic Financial PlanningEntrepreneurshipSaaSMergers

About

Product executive with a proven track record of building and scaling 0-to-1 initiatives into multi-billion dollar businesses. Skilled at defining vision and strategy, driving hands-on execution, aligning stakeholders, and leading through ambiguity in complex, matrixed organizations. Expertise spans consumer and business products, with deep domain knowledge in messaging, social networking, ads/monetization, product-led growth, payments/commerce, and developer APIs. Experienced in building and managing high-performing teams, establishing go-to-market strategies, and owning topline metrics, including revenue growth.

Experience

20 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 4 mos

Current Experience

Intuit

Vice President, Product

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

Leading Intuit’s Payments business, responsible for product strategy, innovation, and growth. Delivering business goals across product and go-to-market execution.

Product StrategyGrowth Management

Facebook

Director of Product Management, Messenger

Jan 2015 – Jan 2021 · 6 yrs

Joined the Messenger leadership team with an initial focus of reaching 1 billion users. Developed the first Messenger monetization strategy, building the team and products that established two new lines of business, each on a trajectory to exceed $1 billion in revenue. Led the company-level priority to make messaging products interoperable across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Oversaw people-to-business messaging products across both Messenger and Instagram.

Product StrategyBusiness Development

Paypal

2 roles

Senior Director, Head of Growth Operations

Promoted

Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs

Founding member of the Growth team, responsible for leading a team of analytics, engineering, and product managers, focused on driving growth through rapid experimentation of product, marketing, and new business initiatives

Growth OperationsAnalytics

Director, Global Corporate Development

Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 · 2 yrs

Led PayPal’s Global Corporate Development team focused on driving acquisitions, minority investments, and joint ventures for new market expansion

Corporate DevelopmentAcquisition Strategy

Intuit

2 roles

Manager, Corporate Strategy & Development

Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 · 2 yrs

Drove M&A to accelerate Intuit’s transition from desktop software to SaaS. Acquisition highlights include Mint.com and PayCycle (now QuickBooks Payroll)

Corporate StrategyMergers and Acquisitions