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Julie Park

Supporting founders & founding teams

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

Work Experience

  • Board Member

    2024

  • Interim Head of Strategy & Operations

    2024

    Worked closely with founders on strategic partnerships, operations, finance, and exec hiring. Now excited to support this next phase! https://blog.character.ai/our-next-phase-of-growth/

2021 - 2024

  • Senior Director, Strategy & Business Planning

    2021 - 2024

    Team led strategy, business and operational planning. Also led revenue product marketing for interim period. Worked closely with founders on company strategy - specific focus on user/customer definition, external market positioning, and revenue growth.

2018 - 2020

  • Director, Small Business Group

    2018 - 2020

    GM for the SMB Long Tail business. $1B of revenue. Focused on solving churn and retention.

2013 - 2017

  • Product & Strategy

    2013 - 2017

    One of the first business hires. Joined pre-revenue. Wore many hats, scaling the business and ads product from $0 to $xxxM. Member of the founding Ads PM team.

2005 - 2013

  • Vice President, Investment Banking

    2005 - 2013

    Corporate finance, IPOs, M&A, debt financings, anti-raid. Eight years and $30B of transactional experience. Focused on Retail and Consumer sector coverage thru the LBO boom, 2009 downturn, and rise of eCommerce. Selected transactions: IPO of Express, IPO of Teavana, $6B Spin-Off of Temple-Inland, $6B Sale of APC, $4B Sale of Diversey, $3B Sale of Saks Fifth Avenue, $2B Sale of 3M Pharma.