John Mccarthy Email & Phone Number

California, United States

• Executive leader responsible for User Research, Product UX, Product Roadmap, Go-To-Market Plan, Growth Strategy, and SaaS Revenue Model.

• Executive leader responsible for Homes, Digital Platform, and Growth teams.
• Spearheaded the rollout of a new listing optimization framework, dashboard, and workstream, resulting in 29% increase in YoY conversion on AirBnB.
• Overhauled Design Standards with Creative team resulting in 70% lift in positive mentions for interior design in post-stay guest reviews.
• Acquired and launched 18 homes in twelve months, with the entire portfolio hitting 100% of target revenue, while competing properties’ revenues declined 20-30% YoY.

Scottsdale, AZ, US

• Hired as VP, New Ventures to research, design, and launch the company's Simple Sale marketplace, connecting sellers with vetted cash buyers. Achieved a $10m run rate within 6 months of launch, resulting in a Series C.
• Promoted to SVP Product and Design to build product org from scratch. Developed strong partnership with Engineering, grew EPD team to 17 PMs, 6 Designers, and 85 Engineers.
• Strategically created a new company mission statement and orchestrated macro-to-micro alignment of product vision and actionable team OKRs.
• Led the product team in the launch and growth of 9 innovative products enabling HomeLight to reach a $1.8B valuation at Series D.

Scottsdale, AZ, US

Scottsdale, AZ, US

Scottsdale, AZ, US

Burlingame, CA, US

• Partnered with local real estate agents to publish Coming Soon properties before they could be discovered on Redfin, Zillow, or other national portals.
• Created proprietary listing format, leveraging homeowner interviews, to humanize each home.
• Developed proprietary Home Valuation algorithm, which enabled PropertyWalk to predict sale price within 3% for better than 95% of all listings.

San Jose, CA, US

• Led the recruitment, acquisition, and integration of Milo.com for $75m to bring “every product on every shelf” onto eBay.
• Launched eBay Local, resulting in massive lift for the eBay brand, and a major contributor to the 150% increase in eBay’s stock price over the next four years.
• Launched eBay Now, a mobile-app enabling consumers to get anything they wanted, delivered to their door, in under an hour, resulting in >10k downloads in NY and SF.

San Jose, CA, US

• Hired to lead eBay Partner Network, North America - eBay’s affiliate marketing channel, responsible for ~3.5% of GMV.
• Promoted to Global Director, eBay Partner Network within 12 months - responsible for the global affiliate network, and a team of 75 account managers, fraud control, and business analysts.
• Created customer-centric northstar for eBay Partner Network, resulting in 25% YoY growth for 2 straight years, driving 5.5% of eBay GMV.
• Selected to serve on CEO John Donahoe’s 8-person Innovation Council.

San Jose, CA, US

• Designed and launched “the iTunes of Product Data” - an API where authorized retailers could download images, descriptions, and structured product data for $1 per SKU.
• Leveraged multiple business plan contests at Stanford and surrounding ecosystem to raise $175k of seed funding, including the grand prize for BASES, the prestigious campus-wide business plan contest, open to all.
• Developed partnership with Zappos to bring the entire shoe ecosystem onto SecondFloor.

Mountain View, CA, US

• Built partnership with Intuit to bring small merchant inventory directly onto Google Shopping at scale.
• Responsible for relationship development, requirements gathering, product roadmap.

San Diego, CA, US

• Hired out of undergrad as Analyst working as CEO’s right hand - selling to, then standing up white label partnerships with Fortune 500 business partners: Costco, AMEX, ETRADE, and more.
• Selected to succeed CEO and lead a merger with AGIA, YouZoom’s parent company.
• AGIA was subsequently sold for $300m, with YouZoom as its prized eCommerce arm.

Education record

Ba, Double Major

Mba