Julie Park
Interim Head of Strategy & Operations at Character.AI
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
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.