# Justin Wong > Product Leader | ex-Reddit and Google Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/justinwong1 Product leader with 15+ years of experience driving innovation and business impact across Ads, AI, enterprise tools, and consumer platforms. Most recently helped build Reddit’s 1B+ ads platform from the ground up and lead the company through IPO. Recognized for hands-on execution, org-wide leadership, and delivering hyper-growth at scale. ## Work Experience ### Senior Director of Product @ Reddit, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Reporting directly to the GM/EVP of Monetization, I led a high-performing team of product leaders (Directors and GPMs) and PMs across the following areas: * Advertiser Platform (Campaign Management, Reporting, API, Billing & Payment, Enterprise features) * Advertiser Growth (SMB Acquisition and Activation) * Advertising User Experience (Ad Formats, Video Ads, Takeover Products) * Ads Safety and Integrity (Ad Review, Brand Safety) * New Bets and Vertical Products (AI, Dynamic Ads, Shopping) During my tenure at Reddit, I was a founding team member who transformed Reddit's business from a publisher monetization model to an owned and operated ad platform, scaling revenue to a $1B+ run rate and contributing to the company's successful IPO in 2024. My key accomplishments include: * Oversaw 100+ successful product launches that helped Reddit achieved industry-standard parity and attracted sophisticated, performance-driven marketers to the platform * Recruited 20+ PMs and PM leaders across the ads product organization, helping scale the monetization organization from startup size to 300+ engineers and PMs * Expanded Reddit's ad inventory across multiple surfaces by pioneering innovative ad formats and creating new inventory sources * Strategically overhauled the Advertiser Platform to diversify demand beyond managed customers and built dedicated teams to develop specialized products for enterprise, agency, and SMB segments * Cultivated a data-driven experimentation culture and spearheaded an AI-first transformation within the ads organization ### Product Lead - Enterprise Design Tool @ Google Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California, United States * Spearheaded an entrepreneurial 0-to-1 project within Google to develop a new design prototyping and collaboration product. Played a jack-of-all-trades role, which included overseeing the customer success and support team. * Conducted extensive customer development with 100+ interviews to understand design teams' pain points, including with design leaders from Netflix, Dropbox, and other major tech companies. * Built and tested early versions of the product internally at Google and with select external partners. * Pivoted the product to become an internal tool supporting Google's Material Design system refresh. ### Product Manager - Search Ad Format and Local Ads @ Google Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, California, United States * Responsible for ad format experimentations and optimization for Search Ads at Google. Managed a pipeline of 50+ experiments and 15 launches that led to X% incremental Search Ads revenue in 2015. * Shipped multiple local ads formats including a new ads extension that allows retail chain stores to show up to 3 locations in their ads. I also helped to develop a new cost-per-direction-click pricing model for location ad click. ### Product Manager - Mobile Commerce & Payment @ Google Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Mountain View, California, United States * Founding member of the PM team responsible for the “Pay with Google” button, formerly the mobile commerce API of Google Wallet. * Contributed to the growth of the product from having 1 merchant on the web platform to over 100 top tier merchants on all mobile platforms facilitating 300M annual GMV. * Led several key efforts including buy flow UI redesign, purchase conversion optimization, scaled merchant onboarding, and new forms of payment support. At the end of tenure, I was responsible for the entire web and iOS product roadmap. * Collaborated with other Google teams to enable native product checkout and hotel booking on Google properties. ### Senior Product Manager @ Oracle Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 Worked on a sales analytic and ML product that predict sales cycle based on similar customers in Oracle CRM. ### Software Engineering Project Manager @ Apple Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 Started as a summer intern and returned to work as a FTE to help manage the software program of the 2nd generation iPod Shuffle. Responsible for facilitating coordination between all iPod internal teams such as hardware engineering, software engineering, QA, partners, factories, and other cross functional teams. ## Education ### MS in Management Science and Engineering Stanford University ### BASc in Computer Engineering The University of British Columbia ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/justinktw --- Source: https://flows.cv/justinwong1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/justinwong1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13