Apr 2024 – Nov 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

• Lead core product, recommendations and product strategy. My teams shipped next generation recommendations models and new AI features like Chemistry.

Jan 2019 – Apr 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Worked closely with the C-suite across the business. Deeply involved with product planning. Regularly presented product vision and roadmap at company all hands and board meetings. Oversaw 185-person product, design and data science team.

Jul 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• To deliver more profitable growth, we leaned into product-led growth to lower cost of acquisition and improve retention.
• As part of our strategy to monetize service categories, I built a new product team to rethink how people message service businesses. In 2016, the team launched Request-a-Quote and within 3 years consumers were submitting 2 million projects a quarter.

Jan 2013 – Jul 2016 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• In 2013, we acquired our first restaurant reservation SaaS product that reported to me as we integrated teams. Today, over 11,000 restaurants use Yelp Guest Manager to manage reservations, online waitlists, and takeout orders. People love being able to add themselves to a waitlist remotely.

Dec 2010 – Jan 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Led half the product team focused on the business side of the marketplace. Worked cross-functionally across local sales, national sales, customer success, sales operations, and community management. My team worked with engineering to build a sophisticated ad system as we migrated our advertiser base from CPM to CPC.

Apr 2009 – Dec 2010 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Launched Yelp in our first non-English speaking countries and led SEO strategy.

Dec 2007 – Oct 2008 · 10 mos

• Defined the product roadmap and user experience for SugarSync, one of the first real-time cloud storage services. SugarSync made it seamless to work with your files locally while having the peace of mind of online backup. SugarSync was acquired by Ziff Davis in 2015 and now has millions of users.

Jun 2005 – Dec 2007 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• First employee and founding product manager. We built Sharpcast Photos, an online photo backup and sharing service. We raised over $25M through our series B from top VCs and investors.

Feb 2001 – Oct 2002 · 1 yr 8 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

• Focused on client side engineering to integrate our web browser into the first Treo smartphones post-acquisition.

Jan 2000 – Feb 2001 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mountain View, California, United States

• Identified a need for a fast web browser on Palm OS and built Blazer, one of the first mobile browsers. Handspring acquired our company for $16M and Blazer became the default web browser shipping on Handspring, Samsung, and Palm devices. I wore many hats including website/app developer, ux designer, and "CFO" after we raised our angel round.