Joris van Mens

Head of Product, Payments Americas

2022 - Current

Lead for new Payments initiatives (on Google Pay, Wallet, GPay API, Chrome Autofill) across Americas.

Head of Product, Next Billion Users

2015 - 2022

Product lead for Google's "Next Billion Users" incubator. Managed ~15 PMs (including PM managers). Products include: - Files by Google: storage management & offline sharing app, idea to 550M MAU - <confidential>: converting open web to visual stories using generative AI, 5M MAU - Camera Go: state-of-the-art camera with ML for low-end phones, idea to 10M MAU - Task Mate: microtasking service to deliver diverse datasets for Google AI, $1M+ GMV - Kormo: jobs platform for India, Bangladesh and Indonesia, grew to 2M MAU

Financial Analyst / Industry Analyst

2010 - 2015

Partner

2020

Angel investor in climate tech and partner at Climate Capital Syndicate (2022+)

Co-Founder / CTO

2019 - 2022

As a side project, built a platform helping Mexican households & SMBs switch to solar energy. Acquired by Sunwise.

Guest Lecturer

2017 - 2021

Guest lecturer at Berkeley, Northwestern and Product School on new product development