Blake Williams

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Senior Director of Product – Meta @ Meta
Blake Williams's Location
Menlo Park, California, United States, United States
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About Blake Williams

Accomplished, hands-on internet executive, with 25+ years of experience in rapidly designing, prototyping and launching new products. Currently a PM Director for the Privacy & Data Use division at Meta HQ in Menlo Park. I was previously a landing team leader responsible for building the Ads Product team in Facebook's London office. Prior to joining Facebook, I was VP of Product and a co-founder at both Keepsy and StoryJumper – leading all phases of product, from ideation to the release of an award-winning website and iPhone app. Prior to Keepsy I was the Senior Director of Product at Topix, where I oversaw product strategy and community, including the highly successful news forums product. Before Topix to I led the Program team responsible for PayPal’s flagship SMB payments platform. I’ve also held senior positions at AOL and Apple Computer.Specialties: Product Management of web & mobile applications

Blake Williams's Current Company Details
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Senior Director of Product – Meta
Blake Williams Work Experience Details
  • Meta
    Senior Director Of Product Management, Privacy Foundations
    Meta Jul 2019 - Present
    Menlo Park, Ca, Us
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  • Facebook
    Product Director, Ads Solutions
    Facebook Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
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  • Facebook
    Product Director, Ads Solutions
    Facebook Jan 2013 - Jul 2018
    Product Management lead for Facebook's Ad Solutions & Monetization teams in London.Teams included:• Local advertiser solutions• Emerging Markets advertiser solutions• Brand advertiser solutions• Facebook's Product Catalog
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  • Keepsy
    Co-Founder / Vp Product
    Keepsy Apr 2009 - Jan 2013
    Menlo Park, Ca, Us
    Led start-up team to rapidly ideate, design, develop and deploy web and mobile products for the print-on-demand industry. Highlights include:• Winner of 2011 Web 2.0 "Start-up Showcase" award for Keepsy.• First to market with Keepsy website – enabling printed photo books and calendars using Instagram's 3rd-party APIs.• First to release an iPhone app enabling customers to print photo books directly from the iPhone.• iPhone app "Time Warp Camera" average rating: 5-stars; Reached Apple's Top-25 photo apps. • Created all product and visual design for for StoryJumper.com – used by over 120k students and teachers to create, share, and print children's books.• Created and owned social media and customer service channels for all products.• Responsible for all PR, media contact, business development and customer service. • Led A/B field testing and marketing for all products.
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  • Topix
    Sr. Director Of Products And Community
    Topix Jun 2007 - Mar 2009
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    Responsible for product strategy and planning for Topix -- a news aggregation and community site with more than 10M unique users and 100M monthly page views.• Developed SEO and partner-strategy for forums, culminating in over 160 community integrations, accounting for ~30M monthly page views on Topix. • Owned monetization and development strategy for all 32K local vertical pages (cars, real estate, jobs).• Led ideation, strategy, and feature set for Local Directory product. • Managed Community team responsible for all customer, partner, and legal interactions. • Panel speaker at Industry Conferences, such as Search Engine Strategies, Newspaper Association of America and the Online Newspaper Association.
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  • Topix
    Director Of Product Management
    Topix Apr 2005 - Jun 2007
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    • Led product strategy and development for web-scalable, syndicated forum system that processes over 4M comments and 65M page views per month.• Instrumental in closing several high-profile licensing deals including CNN, ESPN, AOL, IAC and Sprint. • Worked with engineering teams to refine and develop industry-leading eCPMs from Google’s Adsense for news and user-generated content. • First hire after Series-A investment; Reporting directly to CEO.
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  • Paypal
    Program Manager
    Paypal Feb 2004 - Apr 2005
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Program Manager for PayPal’s Small-Medium-Business (SMB) suite of products – one of PayPal’s most critical strategic business initiatives in 2005.• Led several teams, comprised of over 100 engineers and 30 QA, for an on-time launch of the initial SMB program in April, 2005. • Managed team of 5 project managers, with emphasis and coaching on industry-standard PM methodologies, such as risk, communication, and change management. • Initiated and developed the Advanced Portfolio Management initiative for planning optimization at PayPal.• Created in-house training materials for Project Management topics, including team building and PMP certification process.
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  • Aol
    Sr.Technical Project Manager
    Aol Mar 2001 - Jan 2004
    New York, Ny, Us
    • Project Lead for “Alerts & Reminders” product – a platform serving millions of daily online, wireless device, and email notifications (stock, news, weather, sports, etc.) to AOL customers.
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  • Alladvantage.Com
    Project Manager - International
    Alladvantage.Com Jan 2000 - Feb 2001
    • Managed web application and content engineers for major product releases. Acted as internal International consultant/evangelist for Product Development, Product Marketing, QA, IS&T, and Legal departments.
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  • Apple
    International Qa Test Lead
    Apple Jun 1997 - Jan 2000
    Cupertino, California, Us
    • Lead tester for US, Japanese, and 9 European language versions of FileMaker Pro Database software, including core applications, networking, installers, ODBC integration, and Web Publishing features.
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Blake Williams Skills

Product Management User Experience Start Ups Program Management Mobile Devices Strategy E Commerce Product Marketing Management Sdlc Digital Media Strategic Partnerships Product Development Business Development Agile Methodologies Pmp Photoshop Seo Analytics Mobile Applications Wire Framing I18n Cross Functional Team Leadership Project Management Mobile Design Omnigraffle L10n Online Advertising Web Applications

Blake Williams Education Details

  • Stanford University
    Stanford University
    Japanese
  • Colorado College
    Colorado College
    English Literature
  • The Bush School
    The Bush School

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