ADAM MATHES


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EXPERIENCE


Yahoo

Senior Director, Product Management · 2013–

Messaging, Communications · 2017–

-   Product lead for messaging products, platforms, and partnerships
-   Executive sponsor of Associate Product Manager (APM) program —
    hired, trained, and mentored new product talent through accelerated
    program

Video, Esports · 2015–2017

-   Product lead for Yahoo Esports — created teams and launched
    cross-platform v1 experiences in 90 days encompassing live video,
    editorial, and real-time data
-   Launched features and tools responsible for driving ~20% of video
    views, including vertical stories format across mobile web and apps
-   Managed organization of 25 across product and engineering
-   Program lead for Associate Product Manager (APM) program

Weather · 2013–2015

-   Product lead for Yahoo Weather
-   Grew daily active users 10x
-   Concept to launch of Yahoo Weather for iPad in 60 days, featured by
    Apple as a best new application at launch
-   Industry recognition during tenure included Crunchie, Webby, IDEA,
    Lovie awards.


XOXCO

Consultant · 2012–2013

-   Design, development, and strategic consulting on projects for
    clients including Intel, Whole Foods, Turner Broadcasting, and
    PandoDaily


Mermodynamics

Principal · 2010–2012

-   Designed, developed, and launched minimalist software products on
    the web, MacOS, and iOS including belowrez, textagon, Top Priority,
    DoOneThing, 4uhm, imagesoak, vgamereleases, CalmDown, mailmedaily


Google

Product Manager · 2005–2010

Android · 2009–2010

-   Product lead for media applications and web browser in Android 1.x
    to 2.x
-   Drastically reduced end-user latency of the camera and web browser
    through redesigns and performance improvements focused on key use
    cases
-   Scaled web search engagement by orders of magnitude through browser
    UI improvements and platform growth

Orkut · 2008–2009

-   Product lead for media and photo features
-   Grew photo uploads 5x making it the largest by volume in world,
    doubled photo-related pageviews
-   Launched photo features at massive scale including photo comments,
    albums, bulk uploader, and editing

Google Books · 2005–2007

-   Launched the world's largest downloadable digital book repository,
    preserving and making accessible centuries worth of knowledge
-   Grew books corpus on Google by millions through materials scanned
    from libraries
-   Launched book reference pages including automatically extracted
    tables of contents, subjects, keywords, citations, reviews, and
    references
-   Productized and launched work from research teams on machine
    learning and data extraction that led to several patents
-   Began work through Google's APM program, an accelerated product
    management training program


Consumating.com

Cofounder · 2003–2005

-   Sold to CNet in 2005
-   Dating and social networking site that was a first to use tags for
    communication and search



EDUCATION


Stanford University

BS, Computer Science, 2002


University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

MS, Library and Information Science, 2005