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New York City Metropolitan Area

• Product Development: Created a new depth metric for our product pillar, which is used to evaluate experiments and set quarterly goals. Worked with PMs and UX research to identify depth stages and blockers at each stage; developed quantitative markers per stage; and surveyed CSMs to verify quantitative markers align with qualitative stage assessments for a random sample of customers.• Company Alignment: Developed one of Slack’s three topline company metrics for 2021. Researched alternatives, proposed the most promising option to product leads, got executive buy-in, and built accompanying dashboards and experiment metrics.• Metrics Improvement: Led implementation of Slack’s first in-product survey. Results were used to generate ground-truth data for the search product and identify future logging refinements.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Product Strategy: Drove improvements for a new Facebook feed product by designing experiments, building analytics pipelines, and using data to size the appetite for various feature improvements.• Growth: Was the sole analyst on a new Facebook photos app that grew monthly users 250x over its first nine months (from 40k to 10M monthly users). Analyzed usage patterns to identify biggest app use cases, and investigated logs to find and address user drop-off points.• Retention: Identified leading indicators of retention for a new Facebook photos app and used them to promote the app to the highest retaining demographics, resulting in a 25% increase in retention.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Mobile Analytics: Defined and tracked metrics for a new, subscription-only mobile app. Worked with PM and UX research to develop an understanding of usage trends and prioritize engineering roadmap.

• Alpha Model: Developed and tested alpha signals for potential inclusion into the model that drives our $20B quant portfolio. Analyzed signals’ characteristics and historic performance, and incorporated the effective signals into our production model.• Risk Attribution: Developed automated reports to keep abreast of our portfolios’ systematic risk exposures. Analyzed unexpected risk exposures and suggested trades to mitigate unwanted risks.