Jul 2023 - Present
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Chris Motes Email & Phone Number
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Cantina
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@wharton.upenn.edu
4 phones found area 408 and 310
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Chris Motes is listed as Product at Cantina, based in San Francisco, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at wharton.upenn.edu, phone signal with area code 408, 310, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Chris Motes.
Chris Motes previously worked as Chief Product Officer at Airtime and VP Product, Design and Engineering at Aura. Chris Motes holds Bachelor Of Business Administration, Accounting from Texas A&M University.
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About Chris Motes
Product person.My style: Get things done. Lead with great design and religiously focus on user experience. Live in the data, but get in front of customers to put real stories behind the data. Set big swing goals and grind towards them. Do the hard work to get past the easy answers that sound great (but are often wrong) and get down into the nuanced specifics where great solutions lie. Hire and empower great people. "Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable". Ship.My core values: Trust, candor, truth, joy and empathy.My motivations: Solving problems for customers. Helping people grow. Surrounding myself with people who I can learn from. Constant personal and professional growth. The art and science of high performing teams. Striving for higher order purpose from our work. Hard work with a lot of fun along the way.My career: Texas A&M grad -> CPA @ Ernst & Young -> discovered that I might have gotten the wrong major in college -> soul searching @ music school -> Finance person at tech startup -> discovered that I wanted to do product -> business school at Wharton in Philly -> first consumer PM for HotJobs in Sunnyvale -> Head of Product for Yahoo News -> Head of Product Yahoo Video -> Chernin Group EIR -> Fullscreen SVP Product & Design -> Aura VP Product, Design (and later, engineering).
Listed skills include Product Management, Start Ups, User Experience, Strategic Partnerships, and 19 others.
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11 roles · 27 years
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Chief Product Officer
2021 - Jun 2023
Vp Product, Design And Engineering
Aura in a mission-driven Fintech that provides affordable credit-building products to the underbanked. I joined as their head of product & design, then expanded my role to also lead their engineering team starting in Q4 2018.My focus areas:1. Pushing great user experience into our partner and customer facing flows, both on and off screens2. Driving.
Jan 2018 - May 2020
Svp Product & Design
Fullscreen’s mission is to help video creators make great content and get discovered. I joined as their head of product and design. My focus area there was to get their nascent subscription video app into market and finding its product/market fit. My focus was to drive a great user experience for our customers by focusing on speed, first time UX, social.
Dec 2016 - Dec 2017
Entrepreneur In Residence
Otter Media / The Chernin Group
I joined Otter Media and The Chernin Group as an EIR. My role there was to be a utility product player with TCG/Otter’s portfolio companies including Crunchyroll/Ellation and Fullscreen. I also helped evaluate new investment opportunities for Otter Media and Chernin. After doing this for a while, we decided that it made sense for me to join one of the.
Jan 2016 - Nov 2016
Vp, Video Product
I led the product team for video in Yahoo's Media Group. My focus was on delivering an amazing user experience to users watching video anywhere on Yahoo. A few things that the team accomplished in this role:1. Grew our video stream volume by about 8X in 2 years via focus on great technology and user experience2. Drove our video start times down below 1s.
Jan 2013 - Oct 2015
Vice President / Snr Director Product Management - Yahoo News
Yahoo! News mission was to keep our users informed about what was going on in their world. I was product lead for Yahoo News. We were the world's biggest news site according to Comscore. 1. We shipped a platform with well designed, blazing fast content experiences that worked on every phone and PC, globally in about 50 countries and 15 languages. We.
Apr 2009 - Jan 2013
Director, Product Management | Senior Pm | Pm
Our mission was to help people get great jobs, and to help employers hire great people. I started my product management career here. I was responsible for product management of the consumer experience for finding jobs. A few things that we delivered:1. We shipped a new search experience for our job seeking users that drove a big lift in engagement and.
Mar 2005 - Mar 2009
Intern, Yahoo! Messenger
Yahoo!
I did my b-school internship at Yahoo. I worked on Yahoo Messenger, specifically in the BU working on "Business Messenger" which was trying to deliver Y!M to enterprises. Solution in search of a problem.
Jun 2003 - Aug 2003
Director, Finance
Agillion Inc.
Agillion was a startup in Austin. Our product let SMBs share information with their customers via personalized web pages that could be created with a few clicks, featuring collaboration tools like message boards and groups. It was all web-based and priced via subscription so affordable.I started in a finance role. Basically, I ran “the model” which tracked.
1999 - 2001
~2 yrs
Senior Auditor
My first job after college. Did 30 to 40 audits, mostly young tech companies in Austin. Great experience learning how a bunch of businesses work and managing people. Worked mainly in: Computer manufacturing, software, consumer lending, retail manufacturing, retail (stores) and venture capital. Learned a lot about software revenue recognition and stock.
Aug 1995 - Mar 1999
5 education records
Chris Motes education
Bachelor Of Business Administration, Accounting
Texas A&M University
Master Of Science
Texas A&M University
High School
Ephs
Certificate, Guitar
Musician'S Institute
Mba, Concentration In Marketing
The Wharton School
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What company does Chris Motes work for?
Chris Motes works for Cantina.
What is Chris Motes's role at Cantina?
Chris Motes is listed as Product at Cantina.
What is Chris Motes's email address?
AeroLeads has found 1 work email signal at @wharton.upenn.edu for Chris Motes at Cantina.
What is Chris Motes's phone number?
AeroLeads has found 4 phone signal(s) with area code 408, 310 for Chris Motes at Cantina.
Where is Chris Motes based?
Chris Motes is based in San Francisco, California, United States while working with Cantina.
What companies has Chris Motes worked for?
Chris Motes has worked for Cantina, Airtime, Aura, Fullscreen Media, and Otter Media / The Chernin Group.
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What schools did Chris Motes attend?
Chris Motes holds Bachelor Of Business Administration, Accounting from Texas A&M University.
What skills is Chris Motes known for?
Chris Motes is listed with skills including Product Management, Start Ups, User Experience, Strategic Partnerships, Leadership, Seo, Strategy, and Mobile Devices.
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