Jack Chen

VP, Growth Marketing @ NinjaTrader

Chicago, Illinois, United States

About

Passionate about creating defensible, scalable strategies for fast growing companies. Specialized in building GTM & growth marketing models across User/Customer Acquisition, Retention, and Monetization. Highly data and experiment driven. Experience in: AI, Fintech, creator economy, marketplaces, consumer media/entertainment. Core competency - Leadership: Experience managing teams and motions across Marketing, Product, Data, and Sales. - Channels: Paid Media | Influencer | Viral | Organic | Referral / Affiliate | Lifecycle | SEO/AEO | PLG | Partnerships - Models: Flywheels | Growth Loops (Acquisition, Retention, Monetization)

Experience

  • VP of Growth Marketing at NinjaTrader
    Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

    Acquired by Payward (Kraken). Leading end-to-end user growth. Scaling multi-channel marketing, and driving global GTM to expand retail trader adoption.

  • VP of Growth, EUR & USA at Riff
    Jun 2025 - Jan 2026 · 8 mos

    Series A $16M. Turn knowledge and workflows into AI agents. Your team describes the process. Riff builds agents that read from real systems, act, and write back. Production in days. Agents that close the loop. - Drove marketing-led growth (paid, viral, organic, content, influencers) and PLG across EUR + AMER regions - Rebranded company (previous DataButton) into a sharp positioning within internal tooling - High volume experimentation across messaging and positioning

  • VP of Growth, Global at Builder.ai
    Jun 2024 - Jun 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Series D $400M. Democratize software creation - enable any business & entrepreneur to develop bespoke apps by chatting with AI. - Led a cross-functional team of 30 - $XXM annual budget management - Led growth across customer acquisition, retention, and expansion programs. - Led and drove 50+ high velocity experiments a month - Drove marketing, product, and sales motions. - Managed GTM across AMER, EUR, SEA, APAC, and MENA regions. - Reported to CRO & CEO

  • Co-Founder, CEO at SWIDIA
    Oct 2017 - Jun 2024 · 6 yrs 9 mos

    Hands-on growth studio for consumer startups (Seed - Series C) looking to scale acquisition and retention. Interim exec roles across growth & marketing. Main resource partner for top VCs. Models: Marketplaces, Subscription, Freemium Industries: Fintech, Creator Economy, CPG, Edtech, Media/Entertainment - Laid core growth foundations across 70+ startups - Implemented hundreds of experiments optimizing CAC:LTV and payback - Scaled distribution and retention models - Managed $XXM budgets - Drove revenue growth totaling $80M+

  • Founder-in-Residence, AI & Creator Economy at AI Fund
    Sep 2021 - Apr 2022 · 8 mos

    Founded TRIBE, a platform for thought leaders to monetize knowledge through livestreams. Leverage AI to instantly sell courses, distribute bite-sized content, and drive deep interaction with fans. AIFund is founded by Andrew Ng, a venture studio backed by leading VC firms NEA, Sequoia, and Greylock.