April Underwood

Managing Director and Co-Founder

2023

Board Director

2017

Board Director

2022

Co-Founder

2015

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Founder and CEO

2020 - 2022

I founded Nearby in the beginning of the COVID pandemic to help local retailers make the transition to e-commerce and give shoppers the choice to shop local while shopping online. My team and I raised over $25M from GV, Obvious Ventures, and Redpoint. In fall of 2021, a portion of the team joined Twitter through acquisition and I wound down the business.

Chief Product Officer

2018 - 2019

Led product, platform, user research, and design organizations as business matured and company prepared to become a public company as Slack’s first CPO. My staff of talented leaders included VPs, Senior Directors, and Directors whose teams were responsible for all aspects of the product as well as functional organizations including Design and Research. Many of those leaders are still in their roles today (and have grown in their roles and titles since the IPO).

Vice President of Product

2015 - 2018

Joined company at 150 employees to build and oversee the Slack Platform. Stepped up to run all of product as Slack’s first VP of Product after launching the platform in December 2015.

Director of Product

2010 - 2015

I joined Twitter in 2010 as a Product Manager on Platform / API when the company was 175 employees. Over my 5 years there, I wore a number a number of hats. I was PM on the suite of platform capabilities which served publishers (e.g., Tweet Button, Follow Button, etc). I was a founding Director on the Business Development team where I ran a team of 5. I returned to Product roles and helped build the Ads Product suite from its earliest days, including building the Ads API and its ecosystem from 0->1. As a Director of Product, I grew into cross-functional leadership, managing Ads Product Marketing in addition to my Product Management team, on an interim basis in 2014. Finally, I ran the Data Products team which had joined us via the acquisition of Gnip. I built a wide variety of functional, managerial, and external comms skills while the company grew from 150->4000 people.

Product Manager, Travel

2009 - 2010

Joined company at 20 employees. Drove market assessment and product definition for a new consumer product aimed at helping travelers manage their weather-related risk. Launched in summer 2010 as raincheck.com and was later sunset in favor of agriculture product suite.

Senior Partner Technology Manager

2007 - 2009

Management of content acquisition and monetization programs for Google products including Product Search, Maps, News, Finance, Blogger, Book Search, Groups, and more. Contributed to strategy for Travel vertical which resulted in the acquisition of ITA Software.

MBA Intern

2006 - 2006