Jonathan Betz

Experience

• Continua AI

  Fractional Head of Operations

  May 2023 - Present

  A brand-new startup on a mission to revolutionize how people interact with information, services, and each other by applying always-on, deeply integrated language models.

  • Responsible for recruiting, people operations, finance, compliance, etc
  • Helping with product strategy, competitive analysis, project management, and investor relations.
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  Facebook

  Senior Engineering Manager

  Apr 2020 - Nov 2022

  • Supported 35 ML and infrastructure engineers responsible for the overall relevance of stories and articles from news publications presented to Facebook users.
  • Supported multiple teams in Instagram Product Foundations, including the teams responsible for all Instagram notifications, the Instagram Design System, the Instagram Android experience, and Instagram i18n and ally
  • Led a skunkworks effort focused on redefining and rebuilding Facebook's entire internal recruiting product suite to adapt to a remote-first world.
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  Google

  Senior Engineering Manager

  Oct 2012 - Aug 2019

  • Led cross-functional (software, UX, policy, etc) efforts preventing the spread of [m|d]isinformation on all Google products, as well as on the broader web.
  • Leader of a broad range of software engineering teams working to enable social impact through Google and its technology, including Crisis Response, Civic Innovation, and Education
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  Rent the Runway

  SVP Engineering

  Jul 2011 - Jul 2012

  • Reformed engineering from a key weakness to core strength for the company
  • Oversaw all aspects of technology architecture, performance, and functionality for both consumer-facing and internal applications
  • Personally developed core backend for maximizing rental inventory utilization, increasing utilization by over 20%
  • Led development of new features and infrastructure to grow company revenue from a $12M run-rate to a $22M+ run-rate
  • Grew engineering team from 10 to 25
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  Yext

  VP, Engineering

  Nov 2009 - May 2011

  • Grew the engineering team from 2 engineers to 16 engineers in 18 months
  • Created custom, lightweight, software development processes to streamline work of the team, particularly in the areas of code style, code reviews, technical design, project management, knowledge sharing, and mentoring
  • Contributed code directly to many products and internal tools
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  Google

  Software Engineer and Engineering Manager

  May 2005 - Apr 2008

  • Managed multiple engineering project teams with responsibilities in AdWords and AdSense
  • Founded and led projects focused on extracting structured data from the web and providing innovative search applications
  • Led the launch of Google.com “Q&A” feature, a system which uses facts extracted from the web to provide instant answers to fact seeking search queries. This system currently triggers on approximately 0.5% of Google.com search traffic. More details at
  • Filed or co-filed 18 patents for information extraction methods that take advantage of the scale of data available to Google