Chi-Chao Chang Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, Us

I run engineering for all of Indeed's Marketplace including Job Seeker, Employer, Marketplace as a Platform, Matching, Monetization and AI. Member of the Senior Leadership Team.

Austin, Texas, Us

I run engineering for Job Seeker, Engineering Platform and Data Platform teams.

Austin, Texas, Us

I run engineering for the Jobseeker Business Unit.

Mountain View, California, Us

I am an independent board director of Otter.ai.Otter.ai is a team of technology industry veterans who are passionate about the future of human-computer interaction and how we accomplish important tasks in our daily lives.They're working on Ambient Voice Intelligence™ technology with an unique approach to speech recognition and deep learning that will power the next generation of intelligent and contextually-aware mobile tools to enhance professional productivity. Raised $10Million Series A led by Horizon Ventures, Draper Dragon Fund, and others and another $10Million Series A1 led by GGV, Horizon and others. The team has simply been crushing it. It has the best real-time transcription technology today. The product —Otter.ai—has gotten a great deal of recognition in the marketplace. It’s been the selected partner of Zoom Communications for live transcription in the last 2 years.

San Mateo, California, Us

We provide high-achieving students living in low-income communities academic and personal support during middle school years through college graduation. We are helping to break the cycle of poverty and greatly increase each student’s chance for success in school, life and career.Check our GoFundMe campaign!

Redwood City, Ca, Us

As the CTO of GoFundMe, I joined the board of our subsidiary in Ireland. Focused on enhancing our user experience and privacy in EU through technology.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

I run product development with an amazing team of product managers, designers, engineers and data analysts. I’ve led the teams through a fundamental change in our business model, critical upgrades of our core product and tech stack. I rebuilt the teams across three development sites. Together we’ve helped GoFundMe get back to growing in double digits year over year.Selected Press:https://www.fastcompany.com/90397356/gofundmes-new-site-is-designed-to-make-you-give-more-fasterhttps://charity.gofundme.com/c/blog/tech-upgrades

BFN had been supporting underserved students in the Bay Area for 25 years. BFN merged with Peninsula Bridge to form a single non-profit with a shared vision. The merger will deepen the impact of our services in our underserved communities in East Palo Alto, Redwood City, and San Mateo.I led the M&A strategy and managed execution until the closing of the deal. Member of the merger committee chaired by Penny Gallo.Selected press:https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2017/04/26/two-nonprofits-merging-both-help-students-from-lower-income-families

I ran Search product management at Facebook, working with an amazing group of people. I led the conception, execution and shipment of an upgraded Search product throughout 2016. We shipped in December, and will be rolling it out to the rest of the world in 2017. We've made huge strides in improving search volume and relevance across the board.Selected press:https://medium.com/@justahl/simplifying-facebook-search-8a555dbef4ad

I am privileged to be AME’s first EIR and have been trying to re-define what EIR means and how it can be super valuable for shareholders. Served as advisor and/or interim executive roles at Quixey, Clinkle, GraphSQL (now TigerGraph) and Tango. Led a 50-person team at Quixey that conceived, developed, and delivered a mobile search solution for Alibaba worth $10 Million in yearly revenues. I also had a famous 24-hour stint at Clinkle.Tango was one of the largest companies in AME’s portfolio. I ran the Labs organization as the VP of Product, an end-to-end team with product management, engineering, and BD. We launched B2C and C2C marketplace and music-sharing products on top of messaging. Deals with Alibaba and Walmart. Also served as VP of Strategy and advisor there.Selected press:http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-story-of-clinkle-2014-4http://searchengineland.com/app-search-engine-quixey-china-deal-alibaba-206038http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/29/tango-music-pix-returns-to-the-app-store-for-its-official-launch/http://recode.net/2015/05/12/messaging-app-tango-debuts-shopping-feature-with-walmart-aliexpress/http://recode.net/2015/05/19/western-messaging-apps-are-looking-to-chinas-wechat-for-inspiration/

New York, Ny, Us

I served as the CPO and CTO at xAd and run product management, engineering and technology. xAd is a leader in mobile advertising. Series B backed by Softbank, Emergence, and Palisades.Pivoted the company from a focus on mobile search to mobile display, restructured and rebuilt a product and technology organization for efficiency and productivity in 9 months, brought to market a suite of location products powered by a novel cloud-based ad platform with location targeting and dynamic light-weight creatives with 5 pending patents in 12-15 months, led exclusive partnership with Waze (now at Google), enabled global deployment to UK and IN in 18 months, scaled traffic from 150MM to over 5B ads served a month, help drive revenue run-rate growth by 8x, help drive valuation by 5x in 24 months, and achieved profitability in 24 months.Company awarded the "2013 Global Enabling Technology Company of the Year" award by MMA.Selected Press:http://allthingsd.com/20110725/yahoo-search-exec-chang-lands-at-mobile-ad-start-up/comment-page-1/http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121108005317/en/Proving-Location-Targeting-Mobile-xAd-Launches-Proprietaryhttp://www.xad.com/press-releases/waze-selects-xad-as-exclusive-u-s-third-party-search-and-display-mobile-ad-provider/http://www.xad.com/press-releases/xad-walks-away-with-top-honors-from-mma-2013-smarties-global-awards/

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

I am responsible for Yahoo's global search operations and marketplace, and am the executive manager of the Microsoft Search Alliance for the US/CA marketplace. My team runs in-region operations and marketplace analysis for Americas, Asia and Europe.Leadership team awarded the Yahoo Superstar Team Award in October of 2010.Served as Program Chair for Yahoo Techpulse 2010, a company-wide technical conference with 800 attendants.Company's spokesperson for Search related matters.Selected Press:http://allthingsd.com/20101027/fist-pump-microsoft-now-powers-yahoo-paid-search-100-percent-in-u-s-and-canada/http://allthingsd.com/20110711/yahoo-loses-global-search-business-head-chi-chao-chang/

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

I ran Search Advertising products group at Yahoo and led a division of 450 people. I was responsible for the Sponsored Search and Content Match product lines including software development, product management, and QA.Key Accomplishments:- Turned around a lackluster division, breathing new air, injecting passion, energy and leadership.- Expanded serving operations to Bangalore and Beijing in a rapid pace. Teams shipped products within 10-12 months.- Established execution rhythm across three global development centers, leading to an unprecedented growth in our ability to get things done globally- Led transformation of business culture centered on RPS to one focused on product quality, user relevance, ROI for advertisers.- Established new principles and best practices for prioritization, road-mapping, and resource allocation. Established key metrics and targets beyond the traditional RPS (revenue per search).- Delivered next generation ad serving platform with quality and performance in an accelerated fashion. Realized click yield gains of nearly 10%, highest since the Panama days. Brought YOY click yield performance to highest levels seen in 5 years.- Increased employee engagement metric by 50% under challenging circumstances with the pending MS deal

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

I headed up Sponsored Search Engineering at Yahoo. Re-focused the team around executing towards relevance metrics targets. Kicked off two major platform initiatives to overhaul our serving and matching systems, which delivered over 150MM of incremental revenue (annualized) in late 2009 and throughout 2010.Built and managed cloud-based platforms for analytics and ad serving. One of the first solution customers for Hadoop.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Led the development of the next-generation display advertising platform, which powers the core of our display business today.Selected for a 12-month executive training program, directly mentored by Qi Lu (now President of Online Services at Microsoft).

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Responsible for a line of monetization products in Sponsored Search and Content Match including quality-based and reserve pricing and new marketplace design. Managed a group of 35 software developers and research engineers. Responsible for systems design, implementation, audit, and launch operations of the highly touted new Panama search ranking algorithm launched in February of 2007.Led a small team of engineers in the conception, development and deployment of a novel ad matching technology (codenamed Hubble) using collaborative filtering on terabytes of advertiser and user data. Technology delivers $100 Million in annual incremental revenue for the company. Combined Panama and Hubble results delivered over 40% YOY improved in search advertising RPS.Awarded the Individual Yahoo Super Star in August of 2007.Received the APG Award and the Teddy Team award for execution and leadership in Panama in April of 2007.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Built three critical teams in Search and Advertising from the ground-up: search and ad relevance evaluation, live experimentation infrastructure on the cloud computing grid and Hadoop, and search business intelligence infrastructure. Teams delivered key infrastructure that enable rapid innovation in Search. Managed a total of 25 developers.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Led a small team in the conception, design, development and deployment of the first human-edited search engine (project codenamed Harmony). Launched in August of 2004 and improved overall Yahoo search engine relevance by 5% for most popular queries. Tech lead in due-diligence activities and evaluation of various commercial Search Engines for acquisition. Led a small team to develop novel evaluation techniques and systems support. Key player in the launch of Search X -- replacing our Google backend with Inktomi's.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Various technical lead roles, developing user facing FreeBSD/Apache/MySQL/Perl applications under the supervision of Udi Manber, now at Google. Built a product based on Yahoo Messenger that delivered 2MM page views a day and generated 10,000 new connections between Messenger users a day, the first Yahoo search assistant, and the Yahoo Mail SpamGuard system – the latter two are still live today.Evaluated and analysed the relevance of a start-up search engine at the time named Google. Recommended that Google be the provider of search results for tail queries. Launched in summer of 2000.

Phd, Computer Science

Finance, General