Aaron Joseph
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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
Apr 2012 to Sep 2015
Education
BA, Film & Digital Media w/ emphasis on Critical Studies
2004 to 2008