Rachel Wolan

About Rachel

Experience

1. W

   Webflow · Full-time

   • Chief Product Officer

     Dec 2023 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos·Current

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   Various

   • Angel Investor

     2021 - Present · 4 yrs 8 mos·Current

     {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Invest in pre-seed, seed & series A across SaaS, AI, & Security. Bias for mission-driven founders."}}

3. U

   University of California, Berkeley

   • Mentor

     Jan 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 8 mos·Berkeley, CA, United States·Current

     {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Mentor at SkyDeck\nTeaching future product leaders in Product Management 186"}}

4. F

   First Round Capital · Part-time

   • Angel Track

     Oct 2021 - Dec 2021 · 3 mos

     {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Masterclass and community for angel investors. One of the 40 operators selected from 1300 applications for the 9th Angel Track Cohort."}}

5. D

   Dropbox · Full-time

   • VP & GM, Dropbox Core & Gen AI Business Unit

     2020 - Jun 2023 · 3 yrs 6 mos·San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

     {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Reported to President and was a member of S-Team. Directly led product, engineering, growth, and AI and was accountable for a ~$2.5B P&L while serving over 800 million registered and 18 million paying users worldwide.\n\nLaunched first Gen AI product Dropbox Dash; led M&A of CommandE; drove Dropbox's AI transformation in search, automations, organization, and summarization using LLMs & ML.\n\nOwned P&L, roadmap, strategy, and operations for FSS (core product) across consumers, prosumers, self-serve, managed segments; Led team of ~550+ across Product, Engineering, Growth, including our AI / ML platform; located in US, EU, and Israel.\n\nLed multi-product strategy; launched new products in security (Backup, Passwords) and video (Capture, Replay) from idea to GA driving xxM WAUs growth; led M&A of DocSend ($165M acq) & Boxcryptor to grow our security TAM."},"1":{"type":"mediaComponent","text":"Dropbox to acquire secure document sharing startup DocSend for $165M","thumbnail":"https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/sync/v2/C5627AQH1s-TwYlXZFw/articleshare-shrink_800/articleshare-shrink_800/0/1712181562113?e=1756720800&v=beta&t=G9yNUr0wEaBGgbI98mfvfuF71dEp7L_CdIYXoW_cboo"},"2":{"type":"mediaComponent","text":"Welcome Command E to Dropbox!","thumbnail":"https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/sync/v2/D5627AQGV7vjnS9A5jg/articleshare-shrink_800/articleshare-shrink_800/0/1711924217546?e=1756720800&v=beta&t=YBOnF19XFch0Sama8s6DOV_hSAyko30upt9UuDXQ71E"},"3":{"type":"mediaComponent","text":"Dropbox acquires Boxcryptor assets to bring zero-knowledge encryption to file storage","thumbnail":"https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/sync/v2/D4E27AQHH7u2m9Ujkcw/articleshare-shrink_800/articleshare-shrink_800/0/1748983007540?e=1756720800&v=beta&t=T1JcbdWz5N8-pplpxOnhudskR2xIlHhuv7snX6gddq8"}}

6. L

   LiveRamp · Full-time

   • VP, Product & Design

     Jan 2019 - Sep 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos·San Francisco Bay Area

     {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Leading data connectivity platform for Fortune 500 companies to leverage customer data to drive organizational decisions and customer-centric experiences. LiveRamp has over 1400 employees globally and processes over 4 trillion customer records per month.\n\n• Owned global product roadmap that drove growth of P&L from $220MM to $380MM across a multi-product global portfolio of products including onboarding, integrations, measurement, analytics, data partnerships, international, and TV.\n• Led a global team of 40+ across Product and Design located in US, EU, and China.\n• Launched LiveRamp Safe Haven LOB, our customer data platform; drove significant Y1 revenue $xxm and xxx% growth in Y2.\n• Negotiated GCP & Snowflake channel deals driving $xxxm ARR in years 2 and beyond,\n• Co-led the acquisition of Data+Math, a TV Measurement company to solidify our position in the TV identity space; identified and championed DataFleets, a privacy technology platform to strengthen and future-proof our company and products."},"1":{"type":"mediaComponent","text":"LiveRamp Launches Safe Haven to Enable Data Partnerships","thumbnail":"undefinedundefined"}}

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   Euclid · Full-time

   • VP, Product & Design

     2017 - 2019 · 2 yrs·San Francisco, CA

     {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Euclid was the world’s leading offline identity network. We served retailers, shopping malls and restaurants. Our investors included Benchmark Capital, NEA, Groupe Arnault (LVMH) and more. \n\n• Amazing ride 🚀acquired by WeWork,\n• Employed AI and ML to help our clients (JoAnn Fabric, Simon Property Group, A&W) build their customer data asset and predict customer behavior,\n• Drove pivot of product from spatial analytics to customer segment builder to real-time heat map that led to WeWork acquisition."}}

8. T

   Talkdesk

   • Director (Head of), Product & Design

     2015 - 2017 · 2 yrs·San Francisco Bay Area

     {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Talkdesk is a cloud-based, enterprise-grade call center application and real-time communication platform using data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence in the call center to predict customer behavior. I joined as the first Head of Product in the seed round when they were valued at $30m. Talkdesk is currently valued at $10B.\n\n• Owned portfolio of products including applications, services, integrations and platform; responsible for roadmaps, continuous deploys, bi-weekly releases across 14 development scrums (~70 developers),\n• Recruited and managed 17-person team across product, design, data; led teams in US and Portugal,\n• Launched two $MM+ new product lines in 2016 that opened new personas (Sales) and verticals (Healthcare),\n• Launched AI platform and recruited AI apps into our ecosystem,\n• Owned platform and applications that support a 99.999% (up from 99.99% when I joined) SLA with more than a 1000 customers, including many public companies,\n• Launched successful Salesforce app (4.65 stars, 696 reviews),\n• Started in-house data and design teams; evangelized design thinking and democratizing data intelligence throughout company,\n• Extracted learnings from data analytics and in-person user testing to drive key improvements such as our new Callbar application and platform,\n• Delivered keynote at Opentalk conference, \n• Evangelized product in sales and analyst meetings; pitched to Gartner, Forrester, etc.; helped secure nomination as Visionary in Gartner 2017 Call Center-as-a-Service (CCaaS) Magic Quadrant."},"1":{"type":"mediaComponent","text":"How to Build an AI Roadmap for Your Contact Center - Talkdesk","thumbnail":"https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D562DAQGCzijV4C8_BQ/profile-treasury-image-shrink_800_800/profile-treasury-image-shrink_800_800/0/1681750251718?e=1756720800&v=beta&t=GqOIrpe0QN7ZkOheodjblvfn5Y-GkpP-OgvuIaDt66k"},"2":{"type":"mediaComponent","text":"Opentalk 2016 - Product Keynote","thumbnail":"undefinedundefined"},"3":{"type":"mediaComponent","text":"Talkdesk Live | Teaser","thumbnail":"undefinedundefined"}}

9. Y

   YadaZing

   • Co-Founder & CEO

     2013 - 2015 · 2 yrs·san francisco bay area

     {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"YadaZing helped English students learn real, conversational English from really entertaining videos. \n\n• Built a Natural Language Processing engine to automatically identify colloquial English phrases and educational web application\n• Sold content platform into Kaplan, Princeton Review and other private language schools\n• Recruited and managed 5-person team of product, engineering, and designers\n• Raised angel round; recruited top Silicon Valley investors and entrepreneurs as advisors"}}

10. S

    SAY Media (acquired by Maven)

    • Senior Product Manager

      2010 - 2013 · 3 yrs·San Francisco Bay Area

      {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"SAY is building the media company of the future to help independent publishers create compelling media and make a living through high-quality brand advertisement.\n\nI was the product team's Jill-of-all-trades.\n\n• Led product for site experience for ReadWrite.com, a Comscore 100 property; team's efforts grew search traffic by 4x\n• Led product for Typepad.com, a top 300 Comscore US site; led complete redesign of SaaS publishing platform\n• Led teams that built our publisher monetization analytics application; powered complex business workflows and drove insights for our publisher partners"}}

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    TimeBridge (acquired by Merchant Circle)

    • Senior Product Manager

      2009 - 2010 · 1 yr·San Francisco Bay Area

      {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"TimeBridge is a Mayfield-backed, online scheduling application for small businesses.\n\nI owned product functionality and drove new feature development. I conducted low-overhead, usability tests and implemented A/B testing of key features in the viral loop which increased user growth by 14% and user engagement by 4.3x."}}

12. F

    Facebook · Internship

    • Business Development Manager

      Jun 2008 - Sep 2008 · 4 mos·Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site

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13. K

    Knightsbridge Solutions (acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2007)

    • Senior Software Development Engineer

      2004 - 2007 · 3 yrs·Chicago, IL

      {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Knightsbridge helped big customers wrangle big data. I was promoted three times and transitioned from an engineering to business role.\n\nI developed and deployed software (SQL, Perl) for large-scale ETL, data warehouse and business intelligence solutions for clients in our healthcare vertical (Kaiser Permanente, BlueCross Blue Shield). \n\nI also developed and helped implement the marketing strategy for external analyst relations which led to ranking in Gartner and our sale to HP."}}

14. A

    Aha! Interactive (acquired by SchoolNet, now owned by Pearson)

    • Software Development Engineer

      2003 - 2004 · 1 yr·Chicago, IL

      {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"AHA! helped school districts improve teacher professional development. We serviced large districts such as Chicago Public Schools and New York Department of Education. I built and scaled the application platform (VB.NET) implemented for 15 U.S. K-12 districts. "}}

Education

1. 
   Northwestern UniversityBS, Computer Science, Organizational Change
2. 
   University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessMBA, Concentrations in Marketing, Entrepreneurship

Skills