Jason Weingardt

Startup Ops, Product, and Growth
Rockville, MD
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DC native, technologist, and wearer-of-many-hats. I'm passionate about building and growing consumer technology platforms, and have helped startups large and small move people, food, and ideas across the globe.
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Work Experience

CloudKitchens

Sr. Product Program Manager
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Apr 2023 - Current
  • Oversee product rollouts and communication for high-priority internal and external tools
  • Liaison between field operations and product engineering. Triaged and reported bugs, as well as implemented global product feedback and feature request process
  • Validate product roadmap with input from multiple team stakeholders
  • Create and updated product documentation
  • Communicate across global teams to increase product adoption, realize bugs, and collect impactful feedback for product and engineering teams.

CloudKitchens

Product Operations Manager
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Jan 2023 - Apr 2023

Ritual

Regional Operations Manager
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Oct 2017 - Apr 2020

Oversaw operations and growth performance for 15+ markets (Including Washington, D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas, Denver, and more) to help build a positive experience for merchants and customers across the platform.

  • Lead, managed, and developed regional operations specialists across key metros.
  • Managed a distributed team of 4 direct reports.
  • Created data analyses using SQL and Looker to visualize and hone in on areas of the product and service to optimize.
  • Executed multi-city promotional campaigns by aligning with cross-functional teams (Eats Week sponsored by Apple Pay)
  • Launched Washington, D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, and Atlanta while following and rewriting the city launch playbook

Countable

Marketing Operations Manager
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Mar 2016 - Jul 2017

Led and implemented all growth campaigns, email marketing, ASO, marketing automation, customer support, microsite creation, and influencer outreach.

  • Led marketing for the top civic engagement app in the App Store, lead a marketing team responsible for 2,000% growth after the 2017 inauguration.
  • Created customer support and feedback channels, responded to all questions and feedback, and relay product outages and trends to Product team.
  • Devised, designed, and tested multiple email strategies for user onboarding, breaking news, and targeted, hyper-relevant content.

Uber

Marketing Manager, North Carolina
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Jan 2015 - Apr 2016

Worked alongside a small team to remotely manage customer and driver growth initiatives across North Carolina, especially in Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill.

  • Lead marketing efforts for Uber in North Carolina (Raleigh, Charlotte, Durham, Chapel Hill) using e-mail, social media, and field marketing.
  • Conceptualize, execute, and analyze large-scale marketing stunts, like #UberIceCream, #UberKITTENS and other popular initiatives.
  • Track and grow core marketing analytics and KPIs (trips, trips/user) to understand and replicate trip and user growth.

Education

The College of Wooster

Bachelor of Arts Communication Studies
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Aug 2008 - May 2012