# Hirotaka Ellis

> Senior Director of Product Management at Farmer's Business Network, Inc.

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/hirotaka

## Work Experience
### Senior Director of Product Management @ Farmer's Business Network, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Present

### Group Product Manager @ Sonder Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Product Management Lead, Data Products and Infrastructure @ Venmo
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | New York, NY

### Product Management Lead, Core Experience @ Venmo
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | New York, NY

### Product Design Lead @ Venmo
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area

### Co-Founder and CEO @ Olive Labs
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
At Olive Labs, we are changing the way people manage stress.

### Senior Strategist, Innovation Strategy Group @ frog
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | New York, NY
Providing product strategy consulting services to companies at all stages of the product lifecycle, from product ideation to launch.

### Co-Founder @ youNYD, Inc
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011

### Business Consultant, Product Strategy and Architecture Practice @ Wipro Technologies
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Mountain View, CA
Product strategy consulting for technology, media, and telecommunications companies

### Process Engineer @ SanDisk
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
Semiconductor Fabrication Process Development

As new fabrication processes are required to improve production yield, reduce manufacturing cost and build new generations of memory, I was tasked to:  

•	test new techniques for chemical mechanical planarization

•	apply alternate materials and fabrication methods which cost less without producing significant drops in performance 

•	oversee the evaluation of two prototype pilot fabrication machines and run experiments to measure their ability to improve manufacturing performance


## Education
### Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Strategy
The Wharton School

### BS in Mechanical Engineering
Yale University

### Japanese
International Christian University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hiroellis

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Last updated: 2026-04-13