Julie Park
Interim Head of Strategy & Operations at Character.AI
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/
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.
Director, Small Business Group
2018 - 2020
GM for the SMB Long Tail business. $1B of revenue. Focused on solving churn and retention.
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.
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.