Jake Schwartz

Co-Founder

2023

Endorsed is your AI recruiting assistant that finds top applicants in your ATS. Improve quality of hires, reduce bias, hit your SLAs, and screen up to 10x faster. Looking to connect with brilliant builders and recruiting leaders who want to make an impact.

Founding Partner

2023

Supporting amazing founders.

Guest Lecturer

2024

Executive MBA program. Topics: Product Management, Entrepreneurship, Scaling Consumer Products

Director, Product Engineering

2022 - 2023

Leadership & Execution: Led 60-person organization of cross-functional product teams to deliver best-in-class experiences to Life360's 50MM+ users. Mergers & Acquisitions: Led team to integrate Tile acquisition into the Life360 product, resulting in an M1 relative retention increase of 16%. Featured in yearly investor call contributing to 11% daily share price increase. International Expansion: Built full-stack international product team, driving to a global M1 retention increase from 38% to 51% YoY (absolute), and 55% YoY revenue boost in new markets.

General Manager, Engineering, EMEA Region

2021 - 2022

Built team of 60 talented engineers from the ground up. Managed $4.8MM/year budget for international resourcing. Led regional hiring strategy, engineering processes, and project management. Led emergency response to Russian invasion of Ukraine, including crisis communications, managing $300k emergency relief fund, personnel relocations, and shifting team footprint to safer regions. Result was continued support for our Ukraine-based team, while containing the business impact to within one quarter.

Senior Engineering Manager, Product Engineering

2020 - 2022

Engineering Manager, Growth & International

2019 - 2020

• Led engineering to drive 37% YoY relative increase in M1 user retention • Selected by executive team to join 10-person group to represent Life360 in Sydney, Australia for the 2019 ASX IPO

Lead Engineer, iOS

2017 - 2019

Team Lead, Mobile Foundations

2017 - 2018

Senior Software Engineer, iOS

2015 - 2017

Founding Engineer

2014 - 2016

(Acquired by Life360) Developed and launched Quiver, a matchmaking app. Technologies included Swift, Objective-C, MeteorJS, and Cordova. Updated and maintained Couple app.

Software Engineer

2012 - 2014

Developed features for macOS apps: Calendar, Mail, Reminders, and Notification Center. Work was featured during WWDC keynote presentations by Apple executives, and shipped in Mac OS X 10.8 – 10.11.

Co-founder & CTO

2012 - 2012

Vision is to build a direct democracy through technology. Developed web application to connect users and their government representatives. Met with local and state government representatives to help launch the platform.

Software Engineering Intern

2011 - 2011

Developed network-based Cocoa application features for iCal, employing the CALDav open standard. Implemented features from an IETF draft spec for deployment to millions of users.

Web Developer

2010 - 2011

Course scheduling system with over 10,000 unique users

Founding Engineer

2010 - 2011

Developed platform for bands to interface with their fans. Video streaming, live chat, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript.