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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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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).

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