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Jake Schwartz

Guest Lecturer at University of San Francisco

San Francisco, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder

    2023 - Current

    Endorsed is your AI recruiting assistant that finds top applicants in your ATS. Improve quality of hires, reduce bias, hit your SLAs, and screen up to 10x faster. Looking to connect with brilliant builders and recruiting leaders who want to make an impact.

  • Founding Partner

    2023

    Supporting amazing founders.

  • Guest Lecturer

    2024

    Executive MBA program. Topics: Product Management, Entrepreneurship, Scaling Consumer Products

  • Director, Product Engineering

    2022 - 2023

    Leadership & Execution: Led 60-person organization of cross-functional product teams to deliver best-in-class experiences to Life360's 50MM+ users. Mergers & Acquisitions: Led team to integrate Tile acquisition into the Life360 product, resulting in an M1 relative retention increase of 16%. Featured in yearly investor call contributing to 11% daily share price increase. International Expansion: Built full-stack international product team, driving to a global M1 retention increase from 38% to 51% YoY (absolute), and 55% YoY revenue boost in new markets.

  • General Manager, Engineering, EMEA Region

    2021 - 2022

    Built team of 60 talented engineers from the ground up. Managed $4.8MM/year budget for international resourcing. Led regional hiring strategy, engineering processes, and project management. Led emergency response to Russian invasion of Ukraine, including crisis communications, managing $300k emergency relief fund, personnel relocations, and shifting team footprint to safer regions. Result was continued support for our Ukraine-based team, while containing the business impact to within one quarter.

  • Senior Engineering Manager, Product Engineering

    2020 - 2022

  • Engineering Manager, Growth & International

    2019 - 2020

    • Led engineering to drive 37% YoY relative increase in M1 user retention • Selected by executive team to join 10-person group to represent Life360 in Sydney, Australia for the 2019 ASX IPO

  • Lead Engineer, iOS

    2017 - 2019

  • Team Lead, Mobile Foundations

    2017 - 2018

  • Senior Software Engineer, iOS

    2015 - 2017

  • Founding Engineer

    2014 - 2016

    (Acquired by Life360) Developed and launched Quiver, a matchmaking app. Technologies included Swift, Objective-C, MeteorJS, and Cordova. Updated and maintained Couple app.

  • Software Engineer

    2012 - 2014

    Developed features for macOS apps: Calendar, Mail, Reminders, and Notification Center. Work was featured during WWDC keynote presentations by Apple executives, and shipped in Mac OS X 10.8 – 10.11.

  • Co-founder & CTO

    2012 - 2012

    Vision is to build a direct democracy through technology. Developed web application to connect users and their government representatives. Met with local and state government representatives to help launch the platform.

  • Software Engineering Intern

    2011 - 2011

    Developed network-based Cocoa application features for iCal, employing the CALDav open standard. Implemented features from an IETF draft spec for deployment to millions of users.

  • Web Developer

    2010 - 2011

    Course scheduling system with over 10,000 unique users

  • Founding Engineer

    2010 - 2011

    Developed platform for bands to interface with their fans. Video streaming, live chat, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript.

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