Willy Xiao

55% of Americans are hourly workers, which require scheduling, clock-in, overtime and pay rate computations. - Led 3 managers and 25 total people. - Grew the highest QPS product at Rippling, which grew at >70% organically year over year (~$25mm ARR). - Incubated the "Time Platform" team directly to support a 3-4x increase in users after acquiring a competitor product, which led to the first load-testing and write-sharding of databases at Rippling.

I built and managed a product engineering team in the "Talent Products" suite, which includes Learning Management, Surveys, and AI-assisted review cycles. I grew the team from 8mm to 20mm run rate business by the end, and my team increased the growth rate from 48% to over 100% annually. In the last year, we've launched some features like: * https://www.rippling.com/blog/introducing-talent-signal * https://www.rippling.com/blog/custom-courses-in-rippling * https://www.rippling.com/blog/go1-partnership

Envoy is a16z and Brookfield backed with a $1.4bn valuation. - Launched Envoy Workplace, a new SKU encompassing all Envoy products to manage a physical office. In my time, this SKU included: in-office scheduling, "return-to-office" occupancy analytics, desk reservations, conference room reservations, deliveries, and emergency notifications. - Grew ARR to > $4mm with 350 paid customers within 6 months of launch. My team launched several new products and created new platforms for billing and feature gating for all Envoy services. - Ultimately, managed and hired into 2 teams of 15 engineers across FE, BE, and mobile. This was about 1/3 of the engineering ICs at Envoy. - Proposed and aligned the engineering org around Velocity OKRs and a Tech Debt "Hit List" Framework.

- Led a team of 8 engineers to launch a major refactor and product improvements to Envoy Rooms, which was the fastest growing ARR SKU at Envoy in 2022. The backend system supported > 1000 QPS across the developer API, Android tablets, iPads, iOS, Android, analytics, web dashboards, and Microsoft/Google calendar sync workers.

Acquired by Envoy. - Built a world-class team of engineers with a culture of learning & growth, product velocity, and belonging. - Led engineering, project management, and (at times) product management. - Grew the product to 40+ paid companies. - Achieved a median product "lead time" (feature ideation to first customer) of 14 days (https://medium.com/@willyxiao/how-officetogether-ships-features-in-2-weeks-2b377e253604)

- Grew News Tab from ~10k to ~15mm Daily Active Users in one year. - Co-led cross-functional News Tab Growth team of 20 people including design, PM, growth-marketing, engineering, data science, and data engineering.

- Founded the Actor Experience Data Team, which supported the product team's growth from 5 to 23 people in 10 months. - Reduced the number of content takedowns without actor feedback by 25%. - Founded the Account Integrity Metrics (AIM) team responsible for providing metrics to all account integrity teams. - Did data analysis, software engineering, and product roadmapping for Community Integrity teams in FB London.

Coursework in computer systems, micro economics, statistics, linear algebra, modern Chinese government, and history.