Jack Chou

Current

Senior Product Manager at LinkedIn

Past

Product Specialist at Google
Product Manager at Oracle Corporation
Summer Intern at Neon Technology

Co-Founder at Northern Consulting

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Education

Stanford University

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Jack Chou’s Summary

Multi-purpose background as a product-focused leader with diverse technical, product, and business experience (Enterprise Software, Online Advertising, Internet Technologies).

I'm interested in all aspects of startups, emerging trends and technologies, social entrepreneurship, ideas, small teams, and what it takes to make them successful.

Jack Chou’s Specialties:

Products, Design, Strategy, HCI, Solving problems, Staying out of the way, Building consensus, Taking blame.

Jack Chou’s Experience

Senior Product Manager

LinkedIn

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

September 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)

LinkedIn DirectAds, other brand-new advertising products, some SEO stuff.

Promoted ten months in.
Product Specialist

Google

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

August 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 2 months)

Worked on AdSense, helping to design and launch features and products. Managed business operational roll-out of numerous releases. Developed business cases and rationales for product changes. Made friends. Ate good food.

Products included: AdSense Front-End, CPA Advertising / Referrals, AdSense for Mobile.
Product Manager

Oracle Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

August 2004 — August 2006 (2 years 1 month)

Researched, designed, drove, and led new features and enhancements for the Customer Data Management team.

Products included: Oracle Trading Community Architecture, Customer Data Hub, Customers Online.
Summer Intern

Neon Technology

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

June 2002 — September 2002 (4 months)

Spent a summer working at a small startup building prototype Flash interfaces for Internet set-top boxes.
Co-Founder

Northern Consulting

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

June 2001 — June 2002 (1 year 1 month)

With two friends, started a small consulting firm that designed, built, and maintained websites for a number of health and tribal services organizations in rural Northwest Alaska.

Jack Chou’s Education

Stanford University

B.S., Computer Systems Engineering, 2000 — 2004

Los Altos School District - Egan Intermediate School
Head Basketball Coach (8th Grade) - Jan '03 - Mar '03
Head Basketball Coach (7th Grade) - Nov '01 - Feb '02

Activities and Societies:

Stanford Smart Memories Group, Egan Intermediate School Basketball Coach