Graeme Smith Email & Phone Number

Berlin, De

Oxford, England, Gb

Our vision is Universal Autonomy, and we are focused on delivering commercial autonomy today (autonomous shuttles and off-highway logistics). Since I joined, we made our first commercial deployments of autonomous shuttles in the United States, and established a feedback loop to learn and improve from those deployments. We are focused on scaling vehicles driven by Oxa, driving down the cost and time to deploy, and expanding our capabilities to operate in even more environments.I lead a growing team of ~300 people across product, engineering (software, ML, hardware and vehicles), solutions and support at Oxa.

San Bruno, Ca, Us

Leading most of the Creator teams at YouTube, including YouTube Studio, Analytics, Channel Memberships, Paid Digital Goods (e.g. Super Thanks), BrandConnect (influencer marketing) and YouTube Giving (charitable fundraising).

Seattle, Wa, Us

Amazon acquired Sizmek Ad Server and Dynamic Creative Optimisation in June 2019, and I joined as COO (leading the product and engineering group) to integrate the team. In April 2020, I became CEO.Led a multidisciplinary team of 400 (excluding sales and resellers) across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. Established the group as a successful Amazon team, drove adoption of best practices across business, product, UX, engineering and operations, delivered 'better together' partnerships with Amazon Advertising, and established the future vision for third-party ad serving & creative at Amazon.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Grew and led a team of 300 machine learning scientists, software engineers, product managers and designers working on some of Amazon’s most challenging programs. • Personalisation and Dynamic Merchandising – delivering new customer experiences, and introducing increasingly sophisticated machine learning/deep learning.• Advertising - worldwide remarketing for Amazon, real time bidding, growing the Sponsored Display product, started the dynamic video program that led to 'shoppable video ads', developing Audience targeting and measurement products, and working on malware detection. • Worldwide product relationship data – driving up precision and recall to power the Amazon customer experience e.g. books and TV series, bibliography, discography and substitutable products for the grocery business. Over the years, we went from heuristics and human input through to deep learning. • Talent Management – we delivered web applications for Amazon's talent management processes, including annual review, a system for managing underperformance, monitoring spans & layers in organisations, and automating workflow for career promotions. • Automated Talent Sourcing – we pioneered the use of machine learning to prioritise job candidates, carefully negotiating the ethical and legal requirements.• Resilience - tools to assist with root cause analysis in Amazon’s microservice architecture.• Storyteller - a web application for Amazon Studios to create storyboards from movie/TV scripts.Diversity & Inclusion - established the Amazon Women in Engineering bursary, sponsored the Scotland Women in Technology Awards, supported the Amazon Early Insights program. Finalist in the 2018 Barclaycard everywoman Male Agent of Change awards.Public speaking and media interview experience.In June 2019, I handed over line management of these teams to focus on Sizmek by Amazon, but have remained as the site leader for the 300 people based in the Amazon Edinburgh corporate site.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Launched and grew Amazon's first remarketing program. This team was the first to integrate with Amazon’s nascent ad technology, including Real Time Bidding (RTB) and identity systems. We iterated on the customer experience, developed a scalable architecture to handle Amazon’s catalog and clickstream, and optimised targeting and bidding, making use of machine learning.Launched Artist Central, which enabled musicians, record labels and managers to upload promotional content to Amazon (photos, biographies, free streaming tracks, and videos). I was responsible for the business plan, product development, design, engineering and operations. Following success in North America, I led the rollout to Europe and Asia and the eventual handover to the Amazon Music team. Led various other programs, including SoundUnwound (an 'IMDb' for music), Newer Versions (creating links to the latest versions of products on Amazon), and Search Suggestions (a social search program sponsored directly by Jeff Bezos).

Dublin 2, Ie

Led analysis, design and development of web interfaces and re-engineered business processes for Personal Customer Setup and Account Opening at Barclays bank. Managed a blended workforce of 35 Accenture consultants, client staff and suppliers onshore and offshore.Served as Technical Architecture Authority for the broader £40MM retail banking programme, identifying and closing architectural gaps and improving the development architecture and processes.

Provided Enterprise Java architecture and development to help launch the web channel. Provided architecture and overall technical leadership to introduce new capabilities, including payment protection insurance, fixed rate & tracker mortgages, and risk-based pricing for personal loans. These projects required changes across a wide variety of services including account opening, servicing, contact centre, document production, core banking, business intelligence and regulatory reporting. As Technical Authority for Interest Rates and Fees, I was able to reduce the bank’s test cycle for interest rate changes from one month to a single day.

New York, Ny, Us

Designed and developed Enterprise Java services for logging, alerting and configuration. These services underpinned the 'next generation' technology for JP Morgan's Swaps Transaction System.

Invented and led delivery of Krakatau, the world's first software metrics tool for Java and C++. Built and led a team of software engineers, and personally led development of the parser technology and metrics calculations. We sold Krakatau to businesses around the world, primarily investment banks and telcos.While I was still at university, I provided pre-sales and support for an IDE, a diagramming tool, an object-oriented debugger, and a commercial implementation of the C++ STL (Standard Template Library). In this role, I travelled around Europe to meet customers, make presentations and help close deals. I was also responsible for IT and the marketing website.