Professional
Product-driven technology executive with a track record of advancing innovation and scaling high-performing engineering organizations across diverse geographies and business units. Emphasis on technical strategy, operational efficiency, and accelerating product velocity. Board friendly and experienced with investors from early seed to late-stage PE.
Earlier in my career, I spent over a decade building large-scale consumer products at the intersection of content, digital media and social—reaching over 100M monthly users—across a variety of mediums including web, mobile, video, broadcast and connected devices.
More recently, I've been building products enabling artists and creators to gather actionable data insights, grow their careers, and reach greater audiences at scale.
I'm also a technical advisor for a few early-stage companies, and sit on a non-profit board fostering early education and community building in the San Francisco area.
Personal
Married, with children. Love cocktails and whisky/whiskey. Huge music fan. Avid road cyclist, but that was before I became a dad. Builder. I like tinkering and creating things. Tend to take my work seriously, so I try to take myself less seriously on a personal level as often as I can.
Also a poker player, although much time for that these days. I do draw parallels from poker to apply to the real world—such as assessing the probability of an outcome coupled with intuition in making a decision. In other words, I'm a betting man when I see an edge.
Two truths and a lie about me:
- Cycled one hundred miles on a single hour of sleep
- Climbed to Mt. Everest Base Camp
- Once shared the same PR publicist as Steve-O (of Jackass fame)
I support Black Lives Matter, equity and inclusion, gender pronouns, higher education (does not always mean institutionalized education), youth mentoring, reducing climate change, cleaning up the ocean, decentralized currencies, and Wikipedia—yes, I donate to Wikipedia and encourage you to do so too.
Sometimes I also do a tiny bit of investing, and you may occasionally find me on social media.
How To Reach Me
Best way to reach me is via an intro.
I also read and respond to emails. However, with over 200+ emails received daily across multiple accounts, I'm unable to respond to everyone and will sometimes miss things. Many marketing and salesy emails will also be filtered out.
With that said, feel free to give it a go at jay@jayhung.com.