Ashton Brown

Head of Programs & Community

2021 - 2022

Hyper, Product Hunt's sister company, is a radically different accelerator where founders work with unicorn founders on their growth and product. - Part of the founding team (1st hire) responsible for building and launching Hyper to the world, leading to investments by Sequoia & a16z, thousands of applications, millions of impressions, and 45+ investments - Created and led a new founder accelerator program and community (>80+ NPS)

Program Manager

2019 - 2021

Sequoia helps the daring build legendary companies. - Helped design and led the seed- and early-stage founder programs and community (>80+ NPS) - Led the successful launch of the founder app to hundreds of Sequoia founders - Designed and analyzed our annual founder survey which supported our firm-wide OKR process - Conductive a qualitative and quantitative research project to create customer/user personas and journey

Program Operations & Customer Success

2017 - 2019

Everwise was the integrated platform for L&D leaders to deliver, manage, and measure employee growth at scale. - Co-led and supported the strategy, delivery, and success of 30+ high-touch L&D programs for over 2,000 participants (80+ companies), helping generate over 4M in revenue - Supported the UX of Everwise’s platform via L&D experience creation, content, and group moderation - Helped define metrics and analyze data to communicate insights to customers, leading to renewals

Operations Manager, EverwiseWomen

2017 - 2017

Program Coordinator, EverwiseWomen

2016 - 2017

Operations Manager

2015 - 2016

Smarking puts all of your parking data on one dashboard, in real-time. - Managed business operations including daily company meals, employee equipment, swag, travel, conference materials, contracts, payroll, insurance, utilities, and vendor management. - Built out talent recruitment, including strategy, leading to the hire of 4 employees to a 12-person team. - Managed projects for the CEO, Sales, Eng, and AM teams including product QA, company comms, etc.

General Manager

2014 - 2015

The MonOrchid is a versatile, artistically driven venue in the heart of the Roosevelt Row Arts District in Arizona. - Led an assessment of the current state of the business, creating a go-forward strategy. - Organized details of the venue including planning and management, - Redesigned the website and marketing, leading to a better experience and hundreds of additional leads. - Owned sales across multiple categories, leading to an over 400% increase in sales in one year. - Setup and streamlined operations, leading to a 20% cut in building expenses.

Program Manager

2013 - 2014

Inspire Arizona (now Inspire2Vote) supports non-partisan efforts to promote voter registration and civic activism among high school students. - Part of the founding team (1st hire) - Supported the development of the organization and foundational program - Served as an expert advisor to 25 students on volunteer management, voter registration, and more. - Recruited and assisted in the recruitment of 200+ students from 40+ high schools throughout Arizona

Intern

2012 - 2012

Intern

2010 - 2010

Intern

2009 - 2009