Nathan Maas
Product Manager
Summary

Ever since I was a young,  I have been fascinated by people and culture.  After finishing an associates degree in psychology, I set out to discover the world on my own.  For 3 years I lived with host families and did service work in Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe while climbing mountains along the way.   I returned to finish my Undergraduate and Masters degrees in business with a new found curiosity for how people identify with the products they use.  Since then I have driven the startup of new ventures from advertising to technology as I have continued to examine and inspire the relationship between people and the products they use.  Most recently, I launched my company pennypost to make it easy to send real postcards with digital and social photos.

Skills
Technology
Product Management
Scrum
UX Design/Research
Node
Angular
React
Agile
Web Development
App Development
AWS 
Localytics
Facebook/Instagram Adds
Growth
Sendgrid
Stripe
SQL
Data Science
SQL
Data Analytics 
Management
Leadership
Communication
Creativity
Employment
pennypost | www.pennypost.me
San Francisco
Product Manager | Founder
Nov 2015 to Current

  • Conceived of the idea. Built the MVP. Organized a team of 7 developers and designers. Launched our product.
  • Raised seed funding and negotiated our partnerships with General Assembly, wework, and watsi.
  • Accepted into Amazon Web Services Portfolio package for accelerated or VC backed startups.

sharingXchange
Seattle
Product Manager
Mar 2014 to Jun 2015

  • Led the development of both our home sharing and host services products with an international team of developers and designers.
  • Created road map, user personas, wireframes, mockups, and the first prototype we used to define our product requirements.

Other Experience
Seattle/Abroad
Associate Product Manager | Product Advisor
2009 to 2016

Joe App | Theo Chocolate | Finnriver | Kemik | Efinity 

  • Worked with founders to conceive of, launch, and scale products in Seattle, South Africa, and Guatemala 

Education
General Assembly | Code Fellows
Web/App Development & Data Science 2015
Seattle
Tsinghua PBC School of Finance
MBA Innovation & Technology 2014
China | Graduated Cum Laude
UCT Graduate School of Business
MBA Innovation & Technology 2013
South Africa | Graduated Cum Laude
Seattle University
B.A. International Business 2009
Seattle | Graduated Cum Laude
Awards
Class President Tsinghua PBC School of Finance
Seattle University | University of Cape Town | Tsinghua University · Graduated Cum Laude
Volunteering
International Volunteer Experience

Thailand | El Salvador | Guatemala | South Africa