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University of Waterloo

The University of British Columbia

St. George's School

Product Manager at Grammarly

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

PM for Browser Extensions. Responsible for ensuring that Grammarly’s writing assistant integrates seamlessly and delightfully everywhere our 30+ million users write on the web.

Grammarly

Product Manager

PM for Mobile. Highlights:
-  Built Clio's first consumer product from the ground up: Clio for Clients
-  Redesigned flagship mobile app, increasing App Store rating from 2.3 to 4.7
-  Launched mobile-first customer acquisition channel that generated $5K MRR in 3 months

Clio is the market leader in cloud-based legal technology, with over 150,000 customers worldwide. It empowers law firms through a suite of powerful tools, including practice management, CRM, and client intake software.

Clio has raised $386M in funding (Series E), with a valuation of $1.6 billion.

Clio - Cloud-Based Legal Technology

When you need to hire someone – a landscaper, a DJ, anyone – Thumbtack finds them for you for free. Thumbtack connects millions of people with local professionals for their projects.

Thumbtack has raised over $423M (Series F), led by Sequoia Capital and Google Capital.

Worked on a number of cross-functional projects with product, engineering, design, studio, and user research teams to improve the core Pro experience.

Ran user interviews, surveys, and focus groups to influence product strategy, resulting in new monetization models.

Performed competitive analysis, feature scoping, and wireframing for new productivity tools.

Spearheaded the implementation of new retention and loyalty programs for Pros, including online communities and rewards programs.

Thumbtack

Product Marketing Manager

Recruited new hosts onto Airbnb, driving listings & bookings to accelerate Airbnb's growth in the Vancouver market.

Created a promotions and rewards program for new Airbnb hosts by securing partnerships with local conferences, events, media outlets, and blogs.

Drove over 6000 visitors to the listing creation site through organic channels, resulting in hundreds of leads that became new Airbnb hosts.

Airbnb

Air Ambassador

Assisted with growth and marketing efforts for recruitment of new students onto the platform.

Advised founders (YC S12) on business model, product development, and community building.

Meet a new classmate every day and uncover unique connections.

Taylr (S10 Inc.)

Advisor

Named Top Small Club of the year, awarded by the Commerce Undergraduate Society.

UBC Entrepreneurship Projects (eProjects) assists young entrepreneurs in building innovative businesses, taking their ideas from ideation to launch.

As Co-President for one of the fastest-growing clubs at UBC, was responsible for connecting with founders, startups, accelerators, and VC firms in order to bring their entrepreneurial experience, resources and passion to help eProjects build a community at UBC. Helped form intimate connections with some of Vancouver’s leading entrepreneurs while inviting inspiring speakers to eProjects events, and secured partnerships and sponsorships to provide entrepreneurs at UBC with resources to kickstart their venture ideas.

Secured largest-ever delegate lineup for record-breaking networking event held at Hootsuite HQ, with an unparalleled 2:1 ratio of students to startup Founders / CEOs. Also secured largest-ever monetary sponsorship funds, surpassing previous year's totals by over 460%.

Partnered with many of Vancouver's leading startups, including Slack, Hootsuite, Plenty Of Fish, Launch Academy, Unbounce, and Bench.

UBC Entrepreneurship Projects

Co-President

Acquired by Amazon in 2017. Now part of Amazon Chime.

Do (<a href="http://do.com">do.com</a>) is on a mission to help people love work through meeting productivity software that makes meetings more efficient and meaningful. Do helps people run productive meetings through collaboration technology that helps people set agendas, track followups, share notes, and automate workflow.

Raised $2.4M from NEA, Salesforce Ventures, Sherpa Capital, Slow Ventures, and other leading investors.

Used by more than 6 million people and 500,000 organizations.

Featured in Forbes, TechCrunch, Inc., Fortune, VentureBeat, Fast Company, and PCMag.

Spotlighted by Apple in the App Store as Best New App, featured on the Apple homepage, and seen in Apple WWDC 2015. Nominated for Best New Startup in the 2014 Evernote Platform Awards.

Do.com (acquired by Amazon)

Product Marketing & Customer Success Manager

As the social media manager for the 2013 Vancouver Sun Run, I was responsible for pushing out daily content on a vast array of social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Pinterest in order to promote Canada's largest running event taking place April 21, 2013. Primary objective was to appeal to a wide demographic of avid fans and runners with engaging material, leading up to the race.

Pioneered the run's first-ever social media campaign, growing following to over 10,000 and reaching record engagement levels in under 4 months.

The Vancouver Sun

Social Media Manager, Vancouver Sun Run

Performed as a sales associate in the technology department.

Sold a vast array of products including computers, tablets, printers, cameras, iPods, and various accessories, while also learning integral skills about customer service.

Samir Javer