Vivek Subramanian

Partner & Chief Product Officer

2020 - Current

Goodwater Capital's mission is to empower exceptional entrepreneurs who are changing the world. We were founded on the belief that we are experiencing an explosion of digital-first consumer-driven utilities across a broad range of industries including financial services, education, healthcare, transportation, housing, retail and entertainment. This explosion will shape civilizations for generations to come, and it is our honor to play our small part! We have invested in a great set of companies https://www.goodwatercap.com/portfolio We live our core values of integrity, humility, quality, transparency, service and justice everyday. We strive to build a team that balances high EQ and high IQ, high bar for results and a great place to work. Come join us!

Investor & Board Observer

2023

Investor & Board Member

2021

Investor & Board Observer

2021

Investor & Board Member

2021

Investor and Board Member

2021

SVP Product and Engineering

2017 - 2020

Lead all things tech at Sonder - Product, Engineering, UX, Data Science and IT At Sonder we're reimagining travel, hospitality and ultimately how cities are experienced. We are growing several hundred percent annually, valued at over $1B and raised over $350M from investors such as Greylock, Valor, Fidelity, Greenoaks and Spark Capital. We are building the world's first deconstructed hotel - with apartments, houses, condos, villas, and lofts that you can book at a moment's notice. Each location is chosen by us, designed by our interior designers, and serviced by us to our exacting standards: 24/7 service, impeccably clean homes, comfortable beds and over 200 other standards. We are now in the phase of elevating our product to world-class states. Technology is at the heart of this - it powers everything from running our warehouse/supply chain for furniture and consumables, to managing housekeeping operations, to a fantastic booking and guest experience. It's Airbnb, Doordash and Amazon fulfillment systems combined. Our team is high EQ and high IQ, bold, hard-working, humble and filled with warm people. Our culture strives to balance a high bar for results with a great work environment.

Sr Vice President / Head of Product

2013 - 2017

Coupang is one of the largest and fastest growing e-commerce platforms on the planet and named one of the “50 Smartest Companies in the World” by MIT Technology Review and “30 Global Game Changers” by Forbes. I manage a team of 350+ engineers, product managers, UX designers and data scientists to build world class Consumer Experience, Seller Systems, Catalog platform, RocketPay platform and Subscribe and Save. Previous Role: VP/Head of Products and UX (Nov 2013 - Apr 2016)

Co-Founder, Vice President of Products

2009 - 2013

[Acquired by COUPANG - Seoul, South Korea, November, 2013] CalmSea is revolutionizing consumer analytics. We house over 70M customer profiles, collected via a google-analytics-like SDK for Facebook apps. We combine individual social profile with purchase data in a next generation big-data predictive analytic platform in the cloud. Our platform unlocks an interest graph that provides an unprecedented view into the hearts, minds and wallets of consumers. Applications include campaign optimization, advanced segmentation and clustering. Clients include: Victoria's Secret, Chili's, Disney, Coupang, ZipCar, Big-5 Sporting Goods, Lenovo, Symantec, and more. 'Cloud Wars: Social Cloud' Report by BofA Merill Lynch - "CalmSea has pioneered Predictive Social Marketing by bringing together social media, commerce and predictive analytics"

Senior Principal Product Manager

2006 - 2009

Manage the entire product lifecycle of market leading* Oracle-Siebel direct Marketing products, including end to end campaign management, analytic segmentation engine and online marketing. Directed product strategy and development of four product releases in two years; product line grew more than 60% since taking responsibilities; promoted twice in three years. Previous Roles: Principal Product Manager: Oracle-Siebel Marketing Solutions Senior Product Manager: Oracle-Siebel Marketing Solutions *placed in Leader quadrants by Gartner and Forrester

Senior Software Engineer

2003 - 2006

Design and development of products within the Siebel suite > Siebel Marketing Analytics' & Business Intelligence core team - Led the development of many of the core features of the Analytics segmentation engine (now OBI EE) > Siebel OnDemand - part of a core 15 member team that architected and designed the Siebel's first SaaS product from its inception > Order Management - responsible for re-architecting the pricing engine and core platform engines used across all order management modules (caching, scripting language for defining rules etc)