Summary
Andrew Hess is a product leader and former engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling B2B and consumer-facing systems from the codebase to the go-to-market motion. After co-founding and running GTM and product at a YC-backed startup, he moved into sales engineering and partnerships before leading product initiatives at Affirm, where he helped launch a co-branded Shop Pay Installments offering. He combines deep technical chops (graph databases and backend systems at OpenDNS) with hands-on GTM and partnership experience, enabling cross-functional execution between engineering, sales, and product. Based in San Francisco, he thrives on working with high-caliber teams to solve hard problems and uncover commercial opportunities, and he brings a founder’s bias for action to product strategy.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis