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Sheila Vashee

Chief Marketing Officer at Figma

Burlingame, California

Overview 

Sheila Vashee is the Chief Marketing Officer at Figma, bringing extensive experience from roles at companies like Apple, Dropbox, and Opendoor. With a background in investment banking and venture capital, she has successfully led marketing teams and made strategic investments in companies like Momentum, showcasing a strong track record of driving growth and innovation in the tech industry.

Work Experience 

  • Chief Marketing Officer

    2023 - Current

Figma is a collaborative design tool that enables teams to create, prototype, and test digital products on one platform.

Raised $748,624,736.00 from Thrive Capital, XN, Andreessen Horowitz, Alkeon Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Coatue, Goanna Capital, Eddy Cue, Sequoia Capital and SurgoCap.

  • Venture Partner

    2022

    Advise the Basis Set portfolio on early and late stage business, growth, brand, content, events and overall marketing strategy. Serve on board of directors of various stealth companies.

  • Investing Partner

    2020 - 2022

    Investing Partner at early stage venture firm that invests in AI and the future of work.

  • Founding Board Member

    2019

    A group of founders and senior executive women in tech who want to empower the next generation of women leaders.

  • Chief Marketing Officer

    2022 - 2023

    CMO and GM of Consumer at Ethos, a company that is reshaping the life insurance industry. Leading marketing, brand, performance and growth across consumer and enterprise businesses and GM with P&L responsibility of consumer business.

Ethos Life is an insurance company that provides ethical life insurance.

Raised $413,960,000.00 from SoftBank Vision Fund, FootPrint Coalition, Roc Nation, Arrive, Google Ventures, Dreamers VC, GoldenArc Capital, General Catalyst, Vetamer and Glade Brook Capital Partners.

  • VP Growth and Marketing

    2017 - 2020

    Led marketing, agent, and growth teams through expansion to 20+ markets. Oversaw all key channels performance marketing, content, events, brand, product marketing, social, organic, website, etc for both sides of the marketplace.

Opendoor is a real estate technology company that simplifies the process of buying and selling homes.

Raised $1,887,930,000.00 from BlackRock and Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP).

  • Director of Marketing

    2012 - 2017

    Second marketing hire at Dropbox. Helped scale the team to 80+ people globally and $1 billion in revenue. Responsible for marketing efforts and new product launches, including the launch and growth of Dropbox Business and Dropbox Enterprise.

Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.

Raised $1,709,215,000.00 from JP Morgan Chase, RBC Capital, Deutsche Bank, Macquarie Group, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and JPMorgan Partners.

  • iPhone & iPad PM

    2011 - 2011

    Summer and part-time internship. Ran iPhone and iPad launches in Europe, Asia and the Middle East

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software.

Raised $1,170,230,000.00 from KB Securities, Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft.

  • Corporate Strategy

    2006 - 2010

    Worked directly with the executive team on company-wide initiatives: the $150M acquisition of Athleta, Gap Inc's China entry strategy, and annual strategic planning.

The Gap is an American worldwide clothing and accessories retailer.

  • Investment Banking

    2005 - 2006

    Technology investment banking division.

Morgan Stanley Venture Partners is a private equity firm that invests in high-growth companies in the technology and healthcare industries.

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