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Jens Schumacher

Founder of Released

Australia

Overview 

Jens Schumacher is the Founder of Released, a platform that assists teams in creating shareable roadmaps and release notes directly from Jira. With a background as Head of Product at Atlassian and experience in advising and investing in tech companies like Miro and Customer.io, Jens has demonstrated strong leadership and expertise in Agile methodologies and software development.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Founder / CEO

    2023 - Current

  • Advisor / Investor

    2018 - 2023

    Collaborative whiteboarding solution. Where distributed teams get work done. Together, online.

Miro is a visual collaboration platform that provides an intuitive, engaging, and in-person collaboration experience for every team.

Raised $476,300,000.00 from Atlassian, Daniel Springer, TCV, Frank Slootman, Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, ICONIQ Growth, Salesforce Ventures, GIC and Accel.

  • Chief Product Officer

    2019 - 2022

    Search.io was acquired by Algolia.com in September 2022. Search.io offers a search and discovery platform powered by Neuralsearch™, the world’s first instant AI search technology. Businesses of all sizes use Search.io to build solutions that maximize e-commerce revenue, optimize on-site customer experience, and scale their online presence. For more information, visit https://www.search.io.

Search.io is a real-time search service that enables thousands of businesses to provide search experiences on websites, stores, and apps.

Raised $2,080,927.00 from Tidal Ventures and Daniel Stefanic.

  • Investor

    2021 - 2021

    Customer.io is an automated messaging platform for tech-savvy marketers who want more control and flexibility to craft and send data-driven emails, push notifications, and SMS messages.

Customer.io enables users to send newsletters to selected segments of customers using their website data.

Raised $9,800,000.00 from Spectrum Equity, Oregon Venture Fund, The R-Group and Beyond Capital.

  • Head of Product - Jira Service Desk

    2018 - 2019

    Crafting products to help teams deliver a better service experience

  • Head of Software Teams Business

    2016 - 2018

    Heading the business unit focused on Software Teams including JIRA Software, Bitbucket and SourceTree

  • Group Product Manager

    2011 - 2016

    Managing a group of products at Atlassian including Bitbucket, SourceTree, Fisheye, Crucible, Bamboo and Clover.

  • Product Manager - Ecosystem

    2009 - 2011

    Helped to grow the Atlassian ecosystem to a mature marketplace by improving the developer experience and building out the first app store.

  • Software Developer

    2004 - 2009

    Worked on Confluence in the early days of the product and spearheaded the Cloud efforts at Atlassian beginning in 2006.

  • Advisor

    2016 - 2019

    1Scope provided a Data-driven platform that connected students aged 12-25 to the best opportunities in the world, for free. Acquired by the NSW Department of Education.

  • Founder

    2001 - 2004

    Provided Web-Development services for high profile companies in Germany. Including clients such as Reebok Fitness Germany and Bonsport (Master Agent of LesMills International).

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