Francesco Polizzi
Head Of Product at Outschool
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancesco Polizzi is a product leader based in San Francisco with roughly a decade of experience shaping scalable education and consumer software, currently heading Product at Outschool, a rapidly growing online learning marketplace that has raised over $200M to transform K-12 education. At Photomath, he built the first subscription product and scaled revenue to become one of the top education apps on iOS, while hiring and leading a 30+ person product, design, and content organization; the company was acquired by Google. Earlier at Discord as GPM and Head of Core Experience, he rebuilt the core DNA of a mass-market messaging product, delivering 100+ features in 12 months and improving on-platform connections across over a billion accounts. He also has prior product leadership at Mozilla as Growth Engineer, contributing to onboarding improvements and millions of additional downloads (including a 6.6M+ annual download increase for Firefox), and experience at Dropbox in Growth & Monetization. He holds a Computer Science and Philosophy degree from Lindenwood University, blending rigorous technical training with a user-focused, strategic mindset. Francesco’s track record spans leading cross-functional teams to ship fast, reliable products that scale to millions of users, with a Bay Area footprint and a knack for turning ambitious education visions into tangible, revenue-driving outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Philosophy, Computer Science and Philosophy at Lindenwood University
English
Github Skills (33)
thunderbird10
javascript10
python10
django10
add-on10
css10
mozilla-firefox10
firefox10
mozilla10
web-service9
a-b-test9
api9
pebble9
html9
optimizely8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
FrancescoSTL/all-aboard-1
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:169 pushes, 66 branches in 2 months
firefoxonboardingdesktopmozillaadd-on
mozilla/bakery
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Web service for remote Optimizely A/B test creation.
Contributions:56 commits, 24 PRs, 51 pushes in 3 months
optimizelycreationweb-servicea-ba-b-test
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