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Resume

Austin Tierney

Experience

Snapchat

April 2017 - Present
Product Manager
Maps Team, Revenue Product (Location & Snapchat Creative Tools)
  • Responsible for scaling our location database with third and first party data, while ensuring high quality standards. This generated over $7 million in location targeting ad spend and empowered other teams to build location products (Geo based AR lenses, Actionmojis, Check-Ins)
  • Launched several Snapchat Filters products, generating over 25 billion views, scaling coverage to new markets, and increasing user engagement

Projects

Snap Map

• Scaled an offshore team to increase our polygon tracing output by over 250% (Impacting Foot Traffic Insights, Check-Ins, & Actionmoji)

• Defined a new location taxonomy with over 1,500 place types for ease of scaling with third party sources

Revenue Product (Location Advertising)

• Scaled our location database to over 20 of our top markets with third and first party data, while ensuring maintaining high quality precision and recall metrics, and ensuring quality standards. This generated over $7 million in ad revenue utilizing location targeting and multiple core products were made possible with the database (geolenses, new geofilter locations, foot traffic insights, Maps check in features)

• Solar Eclipse Countdown Timer Geodata (Minute by minute breakdown across North America to power the timer in each area)

Snapchat Creative Tools (Community Filters)

• Community Moments: Created unique experiences based off computer vision to deliver unique filters when users took photos of identified objects

• Smart Location: Scaled our filter coverage to 100% coverage in over 20 markets, resulting in over 10 billion swipes and increased filter conversion rates due to over 500 new creative assets

• Multi Fence Creative: Scaled organic filters to over 80,000 unique locations in our top markets

• Geofilter Rotation: Increased filter carousel capacity, enabling additional localized creative and increasing submission rates within areas of existing filter coverage

May 2016 - April 2017
Geofilter Coordinator
Community Geofilter Team
  • Oversaw community filters and managed over 2 million submissions
  • Streamlined workflows to decrease time spent per activation by over 75%

Projects

Community Geofilter Team

• One of the founding members of the community geofilters team

• Designed over 200 community geofilters

• Managed and curated a database of over 2,000,000 filter submissions

• Improved internal tooling via automation and decreased the time spent per activation by over 75%

• Community Relations
○ Increased our reddit geofilter community subscriber base over 950%
○ Assisted community members via support channels

Zolenda

Sept 2015 - May 2016
Founder
  • Created Snapchat Geofilter map with over 2,000 mapped Geofilters
  • Provided brand strategy around Snapchat and Snapchat Geofilters
  • Designed over 40 geofilters for businesses and brands 

Delmondo

Jan 2016 - May 2016
Geofilter Strategist
  • Developed geofilter marketing campaign strategies for large brands including AT&T, Spotify, and McDonalds
  • Designed Snapchat Geofilters for clients including Shorty Stories, Trevor Moran (music artist), and others
  • Developed a competitive Google Adwords campaign and strategy
Mar 2015 - Aug 2015
Chardam Gear Company
System Administrator
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
Quicken Loans
Business Analyst Intern
Jun 2014 - Oct 2014
Oma Comp
Level II Server Technician
Feb 2014 - Oct 2014
Variety Food Services
System Administrator

Skills

  • Product Management
  • Location Data
  • Data Visualization
  • Product Design
  • QGIS / ArcGIS
  • Looker
  • Sketch
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Quip
  • Photography
  • Community Outreach
  • User Research
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Illustrator

Volunteer Experience

Jul 2011 - Mar 2017
Google Map Maker
Regional Lead

• Contributed over 2,500 edits to Google Maps and supplied ground truth to the metro Detroit region.

• In July of 2015 I was selected to become a Regional Lead by the Google Maps Team, which oversees moderation and quality control.

Sep 2015 - May 2016
Google Local Guides
Detroit Community Moderator
Dec 2014 - Mar 2016
Snapchat
Volunteer Geofilter Designer
Dec 2014 - Present
Reddit
Moderator of /r/Pics, /r/Michigan, /r/ElectricForest, /r/Wayhome, /r/Nero, /r/SnapchatGeofilters
Jul 2013 - Present
OpenStreetMap
Contributor

Education

2016 | EdX
  • HarvardX: CS50 Introduction to Computer Science
  • HarvardX: CS50 Web Programming with Python and JavaScript
  • HarvardX: CS50 Mobile App Development with React Native
2013 – 2014 | Macomb Community College

Computer Science

Patents

Variable media content based off derived land value and user location

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