Steven Vargas Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Massachusetts

San Francisco, California

• Drive the vision for Hipmunk's core products• Owner of Hipmunk’s new hotel product, a complete code and UX overhaul of existing product, launched in 6 months and called best of its kind by customers and experts • Led cross-functional team to craft a hotel product that both aligns with upcoming industry trends and helped pioneer NLP support in travel• Developed strategic roadmap for new flight and hotel providers’ product integrations that enable Hipmunk’s future innovations• Proposed and piloted an innovative concept for growth based on user generated content

San Francisco Bay Area

• Managed all flight and hotel connections (GDS, OTA, airline, and direct hotel) that power metasearch site loved by millions of consumers• Advanced content to double hotel reviews, improve image quality for 500K+ hotels, source more accurate flight data, and surface better location information• Took initiative to strengthen relationships with strategic partners such as Airbnb• Balanced A/B testing, data analysis and user research to inform core product decisions that have increased organic engagement and revenue

San Francisco Bay Area

• Crafted vision, strategic roadmap, and process that successfully brought first product platforms (web and mobile) from concept to launch• Created go-to-market strategy that grew new two-sided marketplace from the ground up in initial six verticals• Led team (design, development, marketing, and customer service) to work together to identify and address real customer problems through testing and user research• Communicated company vision to investors, resulting in multiple rounds of funding

• Created and directed first of its kind “new business development” initiatives to ideate and build new customers & sources of revenue when business unit was struggling• Drove adoption of Agile methodologies to shorten development from 6 months to 1• Identified as one of five key team members required to remain at acquisition in 2009• Earned 5 performance bonuses for leading US/Japan product team

San Francisco, Ca

Firmware Team Lead and Software developer• Developed code for 4 generations of GPS devices • Built, trained, and mentored international, cross-functional team during growth of company from 13 to 40+ employees between 2006 and 2008• Headed joint team of firmware/software engineers for 10+ development projects• Expanded roles to take over testing, engineering, and customer technical representative responsibilities after 40% company downsizing

Co-founded lean venture intended to bridge independent films with investors

Part of team engineers to develop automated system for 300mm wafersDeveloped flagship product line of Ion ImplantersPrimary technical representative in system development of high-voltage Ion Implanter

Master Of Business Administration (Mba) With Honors, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Activities and Societies: Entrepreneurs Association Finance Club Social Committee ChairGraduated in top 5% of class Focus.

Bsee, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity Trinity College Rugby Football Club Trinity College Ski Team TCAC