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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

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