Jason Shah
VP Product (ex-Airbnb, Amazon)
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Head of Product, Growth
2024 - Current
Square is a software company that designs and develops omnichannel solutions.
Head of Product, Growth, Square
2024
Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) (formerly Square, Inc.) is a technology company with a focus on financial services.
Raised $2,601,166,807.00 from TDM Growth Partners and TDM Growth Partners.
Early Stage Investor
2018
- Seed - Series B. AI, web3, SaaS, marketplaces, and emerging markets - Investments include: Alchemy, Allocations, Catapult, Coa, Cred Protocol, Crew, Doorvest, Intract, Levels, Matter Labs (zkSync), Meanwhile Group, Optimism, Papa, Paysail, Playbook, Portal, Rex, Savvy, Spritz Finance, StarkWare, Triangle (acq. by Bridge/Stripe), Webflow, and more
Startup Executive and Product Advisor
2011
- Advising founders, CEOs, and VPs/Directors of Product - Writing product and strategy memos to support executive teams - Executive search / hands-on recruiting help to find the best talent - Strategic customer intros - Investor intros and fundraising coaching
Self Employed is a contracting company that provides independent contracting services.
VP / GM
2021 - 2024
Leading blockchain developer platform ("AWS for Crypto") w/ Fortune 500 customers and largest active developer user base Roles: - 2024-Present: Head of Enterprise Product and Company-Wide Go-To-Market - 2022-2024: Head of Self-Serve Product, Consumer Product, and Go-To-Market - 2021-2022: Product Executive and Head of Growth Highlights: - 25th employee / $500M valuation => 200+ employees / $10.2B valuation - Co-created with cofounders (CEO, CTO) the company vision, strategy, and multiyear product roadmap - Directly managed the following functional organizations: product management, engineering, data science, operations, go-to-market, growth, marketing, comms, business development, developer experience, international expansion - Personally recruited multiple members of the leadership team and >10% of company headcount - Led teams and personally launched initiatives that increased active developers >10X through new product launches, growth optimizations, and marketing programs - Led teams and personally closed customers that contributed $xxM in annual revenue through new API products, business development partnerships, and go-to-market programs; directly created relationships with and helped win multiple Fortune 500 enterprise customers - Led teams that launched multiple 0-1 consumer products that expanded company's addressable markets and accelerated growth of core business by >20% - Served as company spokesperson / executive representative throughout tenure - Led creation of initial internal professional development systems with first onboarding programs, peer feedback training, levels and calibration, career and compensation frameworks, and serving as a direct mentor throughout company
Alchemy is a developer platform that helps companies to build reliable decentralized applications.
Raised $563,903,667.00 from Coatue, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Addition, Andreessen Horowitz, Silver Lake, Pantera Capital, DFJ Growth, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Addition.
Scout
2018 - 2023
Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.
Product Lead
2018 - 2021
- Member of the global leadership team - Reported to Head of Product Management for Airbnb (company-wide) - Helped navigate through pandemic and IPO - Launched and supported products across Core Host, Pro Host, Airbnb for Work, Guest Store, Frontline Stays, Unique Stays, Airbnb Plus, and Airbnb Luxe - Led product teams that launched >3 new host products that helped grow core business ($5B revenue, now >$10B revenue) by more than 5% - Led product teams that launched new guest products that increased the first-time booker rate by >50% and rebooking rate by >10% - Led the development and application of machine learning and artificial intelligence for search booking models and home quality measurement - Led multiple initiatives to uplevel the product management function company-wide, support career development, and recruit/develop top 1% talent
Lake Swan Properties is a holiday home rental company.
Advisor to the CEO/VP Product
2020 - 2021
Vendr is aSaaS buying and management platform that helps companies find, buy, and manage their stack, money-back guaranteed.
Raised $216,000,000.00 from Y Combinator, Sound Ventures, Sozo Ventures, Craft Ventures, Tiger Global Management, F-Prime Capital and SoftBank Vision Fund.
Advisor to the CEO/VP Product
2020 - 2021
Advisor to the CEO/VP Product
2018 - 2019
Front is a communication hub for building strong customer relationships on digital channels.
Raised $203,600,000.00 from boldstart ventures, Battery Ventures, Threshold, Jennifer Tejada, Vine Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Uncork Capital.
Limited Partner
2018 - 2019
Ubiquity Ventures is a "nerdy and early" venture capital firm that invests in "software beyond the screen" (typically ML or smart hardware).