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Julie Park

Interim Head of Strategy & Operations at Character.AI

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Julie Park is a seasoned professional with a strong background in corporate finance, strategy, and product management, having held key roles at top companies like Facebook, Discord, and Goldman Sachs. Currently, she serves as a Board Member and Interim Head of Strategy & Operations at Character.AI, leveraging her expertise to support founders and founding teams, making impactful contributions to the growth and success of startups in various sectors and stages of development.

Work Experience 

  • Board Member

    2024 - Current

  • Interim Head of Strategy & Operations

    2024

    Worked closely with founders on strategic partnerships, operations, finance, and exec hiring. Now excited to support this next phase! https://blog.character.ai/our-next-phase-of-growth/

Character.ai provides open-ended conversational applications in which users create characters and converse with them.

Raised $150,080,000.00 from SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, A.Capital Ventures, Nat Friedman and Elad Gil.

  • Senior Director, Strategy & Business Planning

    2021 - 2024

    Team led strategy, business and operational planning. Also led revenue product marketing for interim period. Worked closely with founders on company strategy - specific focus on user/customer definition, external market positioning, and revenue growth.

Discord is an online voice, video, and text communication platform designed for creating communities.

Raised $995,408,718.00 from IPOSharks, Arcane Group and Flat Capital.

  • Director, Small Business Group

    2018 - 2020

    GM for the SMB Long Tail business. $1B of revenue. Focused on solving churn and retention.

Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.

  • Product & Strategy

    2013 - 2017

    One of the first business hires. Joined pre-revenue. Wore many hats, scaling the business and ads product from $0 to $xxxM. Member of the founding Ads PM team.

Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.

Raised $1,486,100,000.00 from Elliott Investment Management and Elliott Investment Management.

  • Vice President, Investment Banking

    2005 - 2013

    Corporate finance, IPOs, M&A, debt financings, anti-raid. Eight years and $30B of transactional experience. Focused on Retail and Consumer sector coverage thru the LBO boom, 2009 downturn, and rise of eCommerce. Selected transactions: IPO of Express, IPO of Teavana, $6B Spin-Off of Temple-Inland, $6B Sale of APC, $4B Sale of Diversey, $3B Sale of Saks Fifth Avenue, $2B Sale of 3M Pharma.

Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.

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