Jessica Kane
Investor at Hustle Fund
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Vice President
2018 - Current
Lead private investments, fund investments, and real estate investments for family office.
Pacific Rim Financial is a finance company offering a variety of financial services and solutions.
Angel Squad
2021
Senior Product Manager
2016 - 2018
Product lead for Personalized Videos (Year in Review, Friendversary, Friends Day, Anniversary, Birthday, etc.) product development team within the Growth org. Managed cross-functional team of developers, designers, user researchers, data scientists, and PMs.
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
Product Manager
2014 - 2015
Product lead for Discovery, Recommendations, and User Engagement / Growth. Shipped: Tags (creation, pages, discovery), New User Onboarding, Email login (passwordless), Search (UX + results ranking), Notifications, Email digests, many many app download and sign-up promos. https://medium.com/@Jesswang
Medium is a social publishing network that connects ideas and perspectives on topics that matter.
Raised $162,967,569.00 from Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital and Google Ventures.
Product Manager
2012 - 2014
Joined Beats Music as first PM hire, leading product development from inception to launch in Jan 2014 to eventual sale to Apple in June 2014. The app was critically acclaimed (WSJ, Gizmodo, Re/Code, CNET, etc.), and achieved #1 Free Music & #2 Free Overall (Flappy Bird was #1) peak rankings in both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. • Defined product strategy and requirements, working closely with Design and Engineering on wireframing, prototyping, developing, QA and user acceptance testing in an agile environment; Served as lead PM on key features including The Sentence, Browse, Search, User & Artist Profiles, and internal content & metadata management tools • Served as iOS platform product lead, responsible for feature prioritization, sprint planning, and product release coordination • Collaborated with Data Science, Engineering and Editorial Content teams on building proprietary contextual algorithmic radio feature (The Sentence) based on track metadata and user play/skip data • Defined and built out free user experience based on financial model of projected usage and subscriber growth contribution • Managed and drove third-party partner integrations with Gracenote and Topspin
Beats Music is a website providing online music streaming service, centered around curated playlists created by musicians and music writers.
Raised $120,000,000.00 from Marc Rowan, Jimmy Iovine, Access Industries, James Packer, Marc Rowan, Access Industries and James Packer.
Product Manager Intern
2011 - 2011
Product manager for Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Amazon's self-publishing platform for independent authors and publishers. Managed end-to-end design and implementation of KDP Select, a $10M annual program for independent publishers to publish exclusively on Amazon and lend to Prime members. Led 5-person Development team in scoping and defining business requirements, user interface design, and QA testing. Collaborated with Content Risk Management, Finance, Legal, and Customer Service teams to develop and implement program Terms & Conditions, monitoring protocol, and go-to-market strategy
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Raised $8,108,000,000.00 from DBS Bank and Mizuho Bank.
Senior Strategy Analyst
2008 - 2010
Advertising sales strategy & operations. Worked with WSJ sales team to price ads and forecast monthly sales revenue. Pitched new strategic media opportunities (such as dedicated New York section) to senior executives.
WSJ Pro Cybersecurity helps executives monitor the landscape of cybersecurity through a business lens.
Associate Consultant
2005 - 2008
Worked on a variety of cases in tech, telecom, insurance, utilities, health care, and biotech. Case team received the 2007 Best of Bain North America award, given annually to the team in North America with the biggest client impact. Rated top 20%ile of AC class in Client skills. Associate Consultant Intern in Summer 2005 in Bain's Private Equity Group (PEG).