Itamar Jobani
Co-Founder & CEO at PayEm
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolItamar Jobani is a founder and software leader with nine years of engineering and startup experience, currently driving product and strategy as Co-Founder & CEO of PayEm, a global procurement and spend management platform. He blends hands-on technical roots—from C and Java systems work and full-stack development—to product leadership, having previously built and shipped hardware and software as Founder & CEO of OwnPhones, where a Kickstarter campaign raised over $1M and earned major media coverage. His career spans R&D training, server-side engineering at FDNA, and end-to-end product launches, giving him fluency across backend systems, frontend tools, and manufacturing partnerships. Based in Tel Aviv, he balances creative thinking (MFA in Fine Arts) with analytic rigor (BA in Philosophy and Film Studies), an unusual combo that informs his product design and go-to-market instincts. At PayEm he focuses on automating finance workflows to reduce friction and operational cost, pairing startup grit with engineering discipline to scale reliable SaaS operations.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy and Film Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy and Film Studies at Tel Aviv UniversityMaster of Fine Arts (MFA) Fine Arts New Genres, Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Fine Arts New Genres at Pratt Institute
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (5)
smart-city8
urban-planning8
transparency7
democracy7
planning7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
itamarjo/Infiniti_codes
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
itamarjo/Hello_World
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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