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    Jay Campbell

    Jay Campbell

    Product Lead @instagram

    Product Manager San Francisco University of North C...
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    15 Open Positions · $146k–$312k/yr
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    Instagram
    Instagram
    Product Lead 2018 - Present (over 8 years)
    - Lead product for Support pillar in Instagram’s Well-Being product group, driving IG’s integrity strategy and liaising with Facebook’s 10k+ person Community Integrity organization.... more Own Instagram’s reporting, feedback, appeals, and support communication products, focusing on improving the signal from users to train our ML classifiers and improve the IG content experience
    - Launched new reporting experience for IG’s 1.2 billion users across all platforms, increasing action rate on reported content by 25.1% and volume of actioned content by 8.9% while reducing report volume by 23.4%
    - Launched a new strikes system to reduce violating content on IG by targeting high volume, frequent violators. Decreased repeat offenses by 21% and drove a 7% daily reduction in DAUs exposed to violating content
    - Launched new Actor and Reporter Appeals products, taking coverage from 0-100% worldwide for all content types and violation groups on Instagram. Enabled more aggressive use of classifiers to auto-action reports, improving CSAT and eliminating tens of thousands of workload hours
    - Incubated new product initiative focused on improving teen mental health and reducing social comparison and loneliness on IG. Convinced executive leadership to fund the effort and staff a new team to focus on it
    Airbnb
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    Airbnb
    Product Lead 2015 - 2018 (almost 3 years)
    - Worked across entire Airbnb product to build a more seamless experience for guests and hosts, driving major improvements in areas ranging from messaging to reviews to guest... more and host policies. The team fixed hundreds of product issues, resulting in a 45% reduction in customer support issues and ~$200M in annual cost savings, enabling Airbnb to achieve profitability for the first time in its history
    - Recruited and managed a team of three product managers across a broad portfolio of products. Structured sub-teams with clear goals so they could move fast and operate with autonomy. Grew from a team of six engineers to over 40 team members across design, user research, engineering, and data science
    - Built a team culture of bottoms-up, hypothesis-driven ideation, and experimentation. Maximized team throughput by communicating clear strategy and priorities and empowering the team to propose product improvements and run experiments to test their hypotheses. Defined metrics for success and failure, set quarterly goals and created dashboards to track key metrics. Set aggressive targets and hit them every quarter
    - Led feature development and owned strategy, vision, and roadmap for Airbnb search, focusing on personalization, discovery, and matching. Worked with user research, data science, and design teams to identify the biggest user pain points and launch new features to address them. Built an 18-month roadmap, establishing clear big bets with ambitious yet achievable milestones. Launched 100+ experiments, increasing global nights booked by 4.1%
    - Collaborated with data scientists and machine learning engineers to build guest-facing features that leverage search ranking, personalization algorithms, and machine learning models. Built dynamic UI component framework to enable rapid experimentation
    - Launched features to help users orient to a market and understand the diverse range of options, including listing clusters, map improvements, and location context. Worked with data science to mine user reviews to showcase unique characteristics of listings in different markets. Oversaw redesign of Airbnb search experience to integrate new verticals
    Trulia
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    Trulia
    Senior Product Manager 2013 - 2015 (about 2 years)
    - Owned roadmap and KPIs for all revenue-generating agent products across desktop and mobile; products account for 75% of company revenues and are monetized via 57M unique... more monthly visitors. Results include $150M in annual revenue (116% YoY growth) and 74k paid subscribers (130% YoY growth)
    - Managed two agile development teams comprised of 10 developers, working closely with UX, marketing, and sales to take products from concept to launch. Spearheaded development for internal tools and systems for the 500-person sales force, including the development of sophisticated geo-based sales tool that equips sales representatives with up-to-the-minute local market information
    - Launched Trulia Co-Marketing, a product that facilitates collaboration between real estate agents and mortgage lenders, allowing Trulia to enter a new market; results included a $2M incremental MRR run rate and ARPU growth of 32%. Launched Trulia Seller Ads, resulting in $2.5M in MRR and 11k agent subscribers
    - Built iOS app that enables Trulia sales representatives to demo and sell products in the field, and sends geo-targeted push notifications to agents when advertising inventory is available in their area. Three-time winner of company-wide Innovation
    Week competition
    OPOWER
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    OPOWER
    Senior Product Manager 2012 - 2013 (about 1 year)
    - Led team of 12 developers; owned roadmap for products that accounted for 85% of company revenues and were delivered to customers of 80+ utilities worldwide (including 9... more of the 10 largest in the U.S.). Company results included savings of over 2TWh of energy and $250M in energy bills and revenue growth of nearly 100% per year
    - Managed development of the next pillar of Opower’s business, a real-time alerting platform that notifies consumers of peak energy usage days. Platform scales to generate and deliver millions of notifications via IVR, SMS, email, and print
    - Led development of a new outbound content pipeline that reduced development time for new content by 75%. Completion of the project was a major milestone in the company's technology roadmap and migration to service-oriented architecture
    - Launched four outbound consumer-facing products that use personalization and behavioral science techniques to motivate consumers to reduce their home energy use. Products analyze massive data sets from utilities, run calculations to provide
    insights, and present targeted, easy-to-understand, and actionable recommendations to consumers
    Google
    Google
    Management Intern, AdWords 2008 (3 months)
    Partnered with engineering, product, and business analytics teams to measure internal group’s ROI and prioritize group’s activities. Integrated and analyzed data from multiple... more databases, defined success metrics, and built dashboard. Identified
    activities accounting for $750K increase in revenue per account; devised plan to replicate across all top tier accounts
    Adobe Systems
    Adobe Systems
    Product Manager 2009 - 2012 (about 3 years)
    - Drove product development via extensive quantitative and qualitative analysis. Launched Creative Suite 5, Creative Suite 5.5, Creative Suite 6, and Adobe Creative Cloud.... more Redefined product vision by shifting business to a cloud-based subscription model. Over 2.3M customers have purchased the Creative Cloud service since launch, generating $1.2B in annual recurring revenue (53% of company revenue)
    - Defined requirements for integrated desktop, mobile, and cloud-based tools. Led research to understand how tablets and online services change workflow for creative professionals
    - Led research and analysis to establish product lineup and worldwide pricing for creative products. Designed A/B and multivariate tests to optimize the product, maximize revenue, forecast adoption, and identify up-sell opportunities
    - Realized 12% incremental revenue opportunity by reconfiguring product lineup and 15% incremental opportunity for new subscription offerings. Presented recommendations across Adobe and received approval from CFO and CEO. The result was the largest product release in company history, earning $2.1B in 2011
    Monitor Group
    Monitor Group
    Analyst 2003 - 2004 (about 1 year)
    - Led research and data-driven analysis for consulting projects that influenced corporate strategy, portfolio expansion, and entry into new markets for Fortune 50 companies... more in mobile devices, chemicals, CPG, and retail industries
    Chicago Ventures
    Chicago Ventures
    Director 2004 - 2007 (about 3 years)
    Provided strategic consulting to over 50 emergings, high-growth companies, resulting in over $65MM in capital raised, client revenue growth of nearly 400%, and creation of... more over 600 jobs. Led business development and managed a team of two consultants
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    Successfully launched new business lines at Trulia and Opower.

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    Product Management Product Development User Experience Design Product Marketing Business Strategy Business Model Innovation SaaS
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