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Jake Schwartz
Guest Lecturer at University of San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Overview
Jake Schwartz is an engineering leader with a proven track record as a founder with two successful exits, extensive experience in building high-performance teams, and a background in artificial intelligence and large language models. Currently, he is a venture capital investor and angel investor focusing on seed and pre-seed stage startups in sectors like Direct-to-Consumer, Enterprise Applications, and AI, while also actively mentoring and advising new entrepreneurs in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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.
An AI recruiting assistant to find top candidates in your ATS
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
Life360 creates a mobile app for families that helps families feel closer together.
Raised $140,236,268.00 from Vanessa Bryant, Michael Phelps, Bryant Stibel Investments, Jada Crawley, Chip Carter Gaines, Tony Hawk, Chris Paul, Nicole Johnson, Stibel & Co. and Billy Perry.
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.
Couple is an app that enables users to stay connected with their partners via text messaging, video and photo sharing, and sketching.
Raised $4,226,009.00 from Tencent, Paul Buchheit, Dave Morin, Y Combinator, Alexis Ohanian, A-Grade Investments, Lerer Hippeau, Tuesday Capital, Sam Altman and Founder Collective.
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.
Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software.
Raised $1,170,230,000.00 from KB Securities, Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft.
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.
Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software.
Raised $1,170,230,000.00 from KB Securities, Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft.
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.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree
2008 - 2012