Adam Mathes

Experience

Director, Product Management · 2024–

Senior Director, Product Management · Communications · 2017–2019

Product lead for messaging products, platforms, and partnerships
Executive sponsor of Associate Product Manager (APM) program — hired, trained, and mentored new product talent through accelerated program

Video, Esports · 2015–2017

Product lead for Yahoo Esports — created teams and launched cross-platform v1 experiences in 90 days encompassing live video, editorial, and real-time data
Launched features and tools responsible for driving ~20% of video views, including vertical stories format across mobile web and apps
Managed organization of 25 across product and engineering
Program lead for Associate Product Manager (APM) program

Product lead for Yahoo Weather
Grew daily active users 10x
Concept to launch of Yahoo Weather for iPad in 60 days, featured by Apple as a best new application at launch
Industry recognition during tenure included Crunchie, Webby, IDEA, Lovie awards.

Consultant · 2012–2013

Design, development, and strategic consulting on projects for clients including Intel, Whole Foods, Turner Broadcasting, and PandoDaily

Principal · 2010–2012

Designed, developed, and launched minimalist software products on the web, MacOS, and iOS including belowrez, textagon, Top Priority, DoOneThing, 4uhm, imagesoak, vgamereleases, CalmDown, mailmedaily

Product Manager · 2005–2010

Product lead for media applications and web browser in Android 1.x to 2.x
Drastically reduced end-user latency of the camera and web browser through redesigns and performance improvements focused on key use cases
Scaled web search engagement by orders of magnitude through browser UI improvements and platform growth

Product lead for media and photo features
Grew photo uploads 5x making it the largest by volume in world, doubled photo-related pageviews
Launched photo features at massive scale including photo comments, albums, bulk uploader, and editing

Launched the world's largest downloadable digital book repository, preserving and making accessible centuries worth of knowledge
Grew books corpus on Google by millions through materials scanned from libraries
Launched book reference pages including automatically extracted tables of contents, subjects, keywords, citations, reviews, and references
Productized and launched work from research teams on machine learning and data extraction that led to several patents
Began work through Google's APM program, an accelerated product management training program

Cofounder · 2003–2005

Sold to CNet in 2005
Dating and social networking site that was a first to use tags for communication and search