• Coach & mentor a team of product managers and designers for the Republic investing marketplace • Manage roadmap and strategy for a $200M+ ARR highly complex regulated product (supporting Reg CF, D and S deals)• Create empowered product teams to enable improved business-product collaboration• Identify and solve roadblocks and risks to activate new product solutions and overcome foundational challenges

• Set strategy and roadmap to bring Novo's vision to the forefront of product development• Coach the team to stay innovative and manage complexity of stakeholders, limitations, and business needs• Align team around all forms of user feedback to foster a culture of improvement and listening• Improve processes to improve release predictability, reliability and visibility• Launch Android app and web app to become a fully 3 platform product

Revamped the Ense experience to help connect people through sound.• Joined Venmo cofounder Iqram Magdon-Ismail​ to relaunch & redesign app• Redesigned UX and UI based on customer feedback to increase engagement by over 50%• Proactively interviewed customers & prioritized feedback with the founder and growth team• Established a company-wide public development roadmap and a standardized QA & release pipeline. • Led architecture and development of a rewritten iOS & Android app, launched July 2018

• Led ideation, design, user research of Stash Banking (https://www.stashbanking.com)• Collaborated with a third-party agency to conduct research, iterate on designs, and define main value proposition.• Responsible for evaluation of multiple possible banking partners during the partner selection process.• Owned evaluation and integration of tools and infrastructure critical to the product team's success, including establishing processes for research, documentation, JIRA workflows, etc.• Spearheaded assessment and implementation of new technology integrations, including Apptimize, Braze, Mixpanel, etc.

Team Development • Defined 5 different roles (Product Designer, Product Manager, Technical Product Manager, UX Researcher) and actively participated in recruiting, resulting in 7 successful hires.• Communicated and set objectives for the teams to stay focused on company KPIs on a weekly basis.• Established and ran full Product team meetings, weekly 1:1s, weekly checkins, to iterate and help each member improve.Product Vision• Shaped and communicated the overall vision (in partnership with the founders who have a very strong vision). Pointed the team in the direction of an engagement-focused, multi-product smart app experience.• Instrumental in streamlining and simplifying the registration and new user experience, the #1 driver of metrics, effectively doubling overall registration conversion rates.• Successfully orchestrated the transition to a personalized and intelligent Home feed, built in so we could test and iterate quickly (so we were able to move faster).Execution• Jumped in to simultaneously PM and lead the team for the first 4 months while hiring and onboarding new team members to scale.• Developed and implemented a reorg (squads) in direct response to team feedback. This set up a clear hiring plan and enabled the team to prioritize more easily.• Coached and helped manage development and launch of the Retire product as well as a full iOS app rewrite.• Established a product management, user research and design process including increased Compliance involvement and a true path for Marketing.Product Culture• Prioritized testing, being data-driven and customer-driven. • Evangelized “finding a way to say yes” instead of just saying no, and building iteratively in a truly collaborative way.• Move fast, learn things: stressed learning and testing over projects and output, keeping in line with the most important company KPIs while also keeping quality as high as possible.

• As head of the Money team, ​scaled money processing to >$1 billion in volume/month.• L​aunched Pay with Venmo​, transitioning it from limited beta to general availability.• Spearheaded the integration of V​enmo for PayPal merchants on mobile web​.• L​ed design and development of the V​enmo Payouts​ and P2P RESTful APIs,​ fostering partnerships with H​BO​, Papa John's​ and S​plitwise​.

Worked as the glue between engineering, business and design. Was more involved on the API and systems side since I have a bunch of technical experience, and helped build out many of the systems in the early days. After building out the Venmo API in 2013, I worked on improving our bank and ACH systems to be more user-friendly and able to scale quickly to billions of dollars in volume.

Worked with the iPhone team to rewrite the entire Venmo iOS app. Transitioned to the backend team to improve a variety of products, directly integrating Yodlee's SOAP API and re-architecting our refund system using Braintree's APIs.Also designed and built out the Venmo Payouts product and the Venmo P2P API.

Lead on all things tech - built and managed the official iPhone app, website, email, album promotions, etc.

Head of front-end development, and a good bit of everything else. Was doing Javascript & Django development.We ended up interviewing at Y Combinator twice, and unfortunately were rejected both times. It was a huge learning experience for me and my co-founders, and led me to where I am today.

Built some backend tools such as a new invoicing system in VBA, customizing aspects of salesforce.com, worked with intern team to conduct internal study to improve recruitment process.

Led a team to create a business plan for Clyde Space to make inroads into the cubesat market. Worked with Muvizu to conduct market research and focus groups, participated in summer business plan contest.

Aggregated daily statistics, led a team in massive data gathering project, and reached out to early sales leads.