Zak Stern

About

Product manager with experience across Consumer (Google Pay and YouTube) and Enterprise products (Ads). Currently focused on growing and supporting YouTube's brand advertising business.

Experience

• Group Product Manager at Google
  Aug 2014 - Present · 11 yrs 11 mos

  YouTube Ads: Nov 2021 - Current YouTube: Jan 2019 - Nov 2021 Moved to Zurich. Movies & Shows on YouTube: www.youtube.com/movies Google Pay: Aug 2016 – Dec 2018 In-store, transit, and app experience in APAC - primarily focused on Japan. https://www.blog.google/products/google-pay/add-suica-and-waon-google-pay-japan/ https://blog.google/products/shopping-payments/android-pay-says-hajimemashite/ AdWords: August 2014 – July 2016 Reporting and campaign management for AdWords Manager account users https://adwords.googleblog.com/2015/11/share-google-analytics-data-and.html https://adwords.googleblog.com/2015/06/introducing-cross-account-campaign.html

• Product Manager at IMDb.com
  Oct 2013 - Jan 2014 · 4 mos

  Worked part-time while in my second-year of business school. Managed the development of potential new analytical products.

• Product Manager MBA Intern at Amazon
  Jun 2013 - Sep 2013 · 4 mos

  MBA Summer internship in Product Ads

• Economic and Valuation Services Associate at KPMG
  Sep 2010 - Jun 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Assistant Language Teacher at JET Program
  Aug 2008 - Aug 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  From 2008-2010 I was a participant in the Japanese Government sponsored JET Program. The program gives native English speakers an opportunity to work in Japan teaching English at public schools. I taught myself Japanese and can speak and read fluently. I have passed level 1 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test.