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Understanding San Francisco homelessness
Talks about San Francisco, Homeless and Housing
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Joris Van Mens
Head of Product, Payments Americas at Google
San Francisco, California
Overview
Joris van Mens is a Product Lead at Google, based in San Francisco, California, with a background in product management and financial analysis. With experience leading product teams at Google and founding a startup, he has a strong track record of driving business strategy and innovation in the tech industry.
Work Experience
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
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Partner
2020
Angel investor in climate tech and partner at Climate Capital Syndicate (2022+)
Climate Capital is an investment firm that supports companies that directly or indirectly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
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
Education
Graduate Certificate
2016 - 2018
Master of Science - MS
2005 - 2010