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Understanding San Francisco homelessness
Talks about San Francisco, Homeless and Housing
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Joris Van Mens
Head of Product, Payments Americas at Google
San Francisco, California
Overview
Joris van Mens is a Product Lead at Google, based in San Francisco, California, with a background in product management and financial analysis. With experience leading product teams at Google and founding a startup, he has a strong track record of driving business strategy and innovation in the tech industry.
Work Experience
Head of Product, Payments
2025 - Current
Financing & software for sustainable home upgrades
Partner
2020
Invested in 20+ Climate Tech startups, partner at Climate Capital Syndicate (2022+)
Climate Capital is an investment firm that supports companies that directly or indirectly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
Head of Product, Google Pay Americas
2022 - 2025
- Launched Pix on Wallet & Chrome in Brazil, in collaboration with BR's Central Bank - Sunset the GPay US app and transitioned users to Wallet, saving $xxM annually
Head of Product, Next Billion Users
2015 - 2022
Led Product for "Next Billion Users" incubator (15 PMs). Product achievements include: - Files by Google: storage management & offline sharing app, idea to 550M MAU - <internal>: converting open web to visual stories using generative AI, 5M MAU - Camera Go: state-of-the-art camera with ML for low-end phones, idea to 10M MAU - Task Mate: microtasking service to deliver diverse datasets for Google AI, $1M+ GMV - Kormo: jobs platform for India, Bangladesh and Indonesia, grew to 2M MAU
Financial Analyst / Industry Analyst / Account Manager
2010 - 2015
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Co-Founder
2019 - 2022
Built a platform to help Mexican households & SMBs switch to solar energy. Acquired by Sunwise.
Guest Lecturer
2017 - 2021
Guest lecturer at Berkeley, Northwestern and Product School on new product development
Education
Graduate Certificate
2016 - 2018
Master of Science - MS
2005 - 2010