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David Jesse

Executive Product Leader, Advisor and Coach

Formerly DoorDash, Fetch, Groupon, eBay

Hunt Club is a new type of search firm that seamlessly integrates service, tech, and network effects to help companies find visionary talent and build stronger teams.

As an Expert in the Hunt Club community, I am thrilled to extend my expertise and experience to the Hunt Club community. Some of the areas I can be helpful:

Define what a great product leader looks like including the right profile for your company’s specific needs
Leverage my network for candidate introductions
Advise on your product organization and hiring strategy
Help screen and assess candidates
Provide strategic advice on building and scaling high-performing product teams

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About David Jesse

David Jesse is a seasoned product management executive with over 20 years of experience in companies ranging from seed stage startups to large public enterprises. With deep expertise in marketplaces and global expansion, David has held senior product leadership roles at DoorDash, Fetch, Groupon, and eBay during periods of rapid expansion. Currently, he serves as a Senior Product Advisor and Coach at Prodify.

As a Product Executive and Advisor/Coach at Prodify, he provides fractional leadership, coaching, workshops, and hiring support to help clients develop their product management teams and practices.
Established the product team, as Head of International Product at DoorDash, to drive global success through market expansion, growth, strategic partnerships and local market adaptation.
As first Chief Product Officer at Fetch, David scaled active customers from 1.2 million to 5.1 million and increased revenue run rate from $15 million to $65 million. Fetch is a top 20 shopping app with a 4.8 App Store rating.
David was Groupon’s first VP of Product and Design. He led the buildout of those teams from four to 25 in his first year – a period where quarterly revenues grew from $20 million to $275 million during Groupon’s hyper-growth phase.
Led Product and Engineering for the $2B global business Groupon Goods unit. He restructured the team and implemented process and feature improvements which increased the gross profit margin by 500 basis points and reduced delivery time by 33%.
He began his product management career at eBay, where he held various Product Leadership roles including Group Product Manager, Seller Listing and Merchandising; Director of Product Management for eBay UK; and General Manager of eBay Ireland.
Developed the curriculum and was one of the instructors for the 5-star rated product leadership course through Gigantic/Product Collective.
Contributed to the book, Build What Matters, which introduced the Vision-Led Product Management framework to enable a customer centric approach to achieving product outcomes.

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A referral from a respected peer makes all the difference

Meet Lindsay Knight, Partner at Chicago Ventures. She’s a Hunt Club Expert who has made over 50 introductions to contacts in her network. Learn how her relationship with a seasoned HR leader in Chicago helped him land his next exciting role at a high-growth startup.

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