Jason Shah
VP Product (ex-Airbnb, Amazon)
Jason Shah
VP Product (ex-Airbnb, Amazon)
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Early Stage Investor
2018 - Current
- 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, 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
VP / GM
2021 - 2024
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
Scout
2018 - 2023
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
Advisor to the CEO/VP Product
2020 - 2021
Advisor to the CEO/VP Product
2020 - 2021
Advisor to the CEO/VP Product
2018 - 2019
Limited Partner
2018 - 2019
Head of Product - Business Applications
2017 - 2018
- Via acquisition - New Amazon Web Services / Future of Work Applications Business Unit
Founder / CEO
2014 - 2017
- Acquired in 2017 - Do (do.com) helped people love work through meeting productivity software that makes meetings more efficient and meaningful. The product let users set agendas and followups, share notes, and automate workflow through artificial intelligence. - Partnered with Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon Web Services, Dropbox, Box, WebEx, and dozens of additional enterprise partners and integrations - Based in San Francisco and backed by NEA, Salesforce Ventures, Slow Ventures, and other leading investors. - More than 6M people and 500K companies have used Do.com.