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• GiveWell is a research and grant-making organization focused on global health and development. During my tenure, GiveWell grew from 20 to 70 staff, and increased annual funds raised from $160m to $600m.
• Promoted to an executive role to lead and restructure the operations department, including finance, HR, technology, legal, grantmaking, facilities, and administrative support. Reported to the CEO.
• Grew operations from 9 to 13 full-time employees. Hired 7 staff and managed a $4.5m budget.
• Dramatically improved team response times, work quality, and capacity for complex projects.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Managed growth marketing and technology, leading a team of three. Reported primarily to the CEO.
• Grew advertising budget to $1.9m spending across multiple channels, built fundamental marketing
• collateral, and redesigned the website.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Indiegogo is a leading crowdfunding startup. During my tenure, it grew from 20 to 120 staff and raised a $40m funding round.
• Pitched, launched, and scaled Indiegogo’s China program, which grew to over 10% of org revenue.
• Launched over 3,000 campaigns from China-based businesses on Indiegogo, raising over $100m.
• Hired and managed a team of four in the US and China to source, launch, and grow campaigns.

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

• Progressed rapidly from entry-level to director role, hiring and managing a sales team of three.
• Sourced crowdfunding campaigns raising over $35m.
• Notable projects: extensive speaking engagements (e.g. SXSW) to promote Indiegogo, formalized org’s campaign strategy function, scaled partner-driven sales model, successfully advocated for pivotal pixel-tracking.

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Sonora, CA

• Wrote articles and helped develop content in editorial meetings.
• Digitized distribution system, created maps and consumption graphs for use in ad sales.
• Created and managed customer database using FileMaker Pro.

• Researched and wrote articles, reviews, and features for weekly publication.
• Fact checked special sections and listings.
• Participated in paper critiques and helped to develop content in weekly meetings.