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Aaron Joseph

Saucier 👨🏽‍🍳

El Cerrito, California, United States · 1 connection

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About

I love building products that help change peoples lives for the better, and take complex processes and simplify them for millions of customers. More recently I have started to mentor and manage teams and have found joy in seeing their own successes, failures and learnings along the way. This inspires me to learn and grow myself! At Hired, I lead both our Product & Design groups that cover Hired Marketplace (B2B2C), Hired Assessments (B2B) and some new unreleased products that are focused on nascent ML optimization in Hiring. The teams include Candidate Experience, Candidate Discovery (ML & Ranking), Employer Experience & Assessments Platform. Prior to Hired, I was a founding team member at Simpler which raised $1.2M from A16Z, Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures and other key angels. After building out the service we were acquired by Bebop, founded by VMware co-founders Diane Greene & Mendel Rosenblum. Integrated our product suite and brought a new HR product suite to market that was eventually bought by Google for $380M and came to market as Google Hire. Previous to that I held consumer-focused roles at both TinyCo (acq. Jam City) and Playdom (acq. Disney for $763m) focused in produc

Experience

Saucier 👨🏽‍🍳Fancysauce.ai
Mar 2026
FounderClockwerk
Feb 2023
VP of Product & DesignMedallion
Dec 2024 to Dec 2025
Sr. Director of ProductPave
Dec 2023 to Dec 2024
Fractional Head of ProductPave
Dec 2023 to Mar 2024
PartnerDay 0
Dec 2023 to Jun 2024
Sr. Director of ProductVendr
Mar 2021 to Jan 2023
Director of Product & DesignHired
Nov 2019 to Mar 2021
Sr. Product Manager, Employer Experience & Marketplace Optimization (ML)Hired
Feb 2018 to Nov 2019
Product Manager, MarketplaceHired
May 2016 to Jan 2018
ProductBebop (Acq. Google Nov 2015)
Jun 2014 to Sep 2015
Product (Founding Member)Simpler.co Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Apr 2012 to Sep 2015
Product ManagerJam City
Feb 2011 to Mar 2012
User Acquisition, Senior AnalystThe Walt Disney Company
Sep 2009 to Jan 2011

Education

University of California, Santa Cruz
BA, Film & Digital Media w/ emphasis on Critical Studies
2004 to 2008