Chris Ader

About

Experienced growth, product, analytics, strategy, and business transformation professional. Ex-Head of Rider Growth at Bird, Ex-Head of Growth at Clutter, Ex-Growth at Snapchat, Ex-Head of Analytics at Intent Media. Currently leading Product at newtrul. Rhodes Scholarship Finalist. Development experience with Agile Web Development, Lean Software Development, SDLC, A/B Testing, Hive, SQL, Hadoop, SAS, SPSS, Matlab, R, C/ C++, HTML, Perl, Python, PHP, Pascal, Scheme, UNIX, MS Office (Excel, Excel Solver, Excel VBA, Access, Access VBA, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook), Omniture, Adobe Audience Manager, Essbase.

Experience

• Head of Product Management at newtrul
  Mar 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

  Driving >1000% growth (and counting) in marketplace fill rates, despite major industry headwinds

• Product Consultant and Advisor at Multiple Early Stage Startups
  2019 - Present · 7 yrs 6 mos

  Consulted and advised multiple early stage startups across product, growth, and analytics.

• Director of Growth & Analytics at Pangaea
  2020 - 2023 · 3 yrs

  Built Growth & Analytics team from inception, leading team across multiple growth stages

• Bird (Santa Monica, CA)
  • Head of Rider Growth
    2019 - 2020 · 1 yr

    Drove double digit growth in key rider and charger metrics, including rides, revenue, new rider acquisition, and charger engagement.

  • Product Lead, Bird Platform
    2018 - 2019 · 1 yr

    Launched Bird Platform, a SAAS platform allowing independent operators to leverage Bird's rider and operator platforms to launch their own scooter fleets.

• Head of Growth at Clutter
  2017 - 2018 · 1 yr

  Led growth team, driving 50% lift in lead conversion rate and 20% lift in marketing spend efficiency.