Jess Jones
Client Development Lead at Artemis Chase - Defence & Space Specialists
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJess Jones is a Client Development Lead and global BDM with a decade of experience scaling GTM teams for VC-backed SaaS and frontier tech ventures across EMEA, North America and NATO-aligned markets. She combines a proven commercial track record—multiple top-biller awards and rapid exclusive SaaS/AI partnerships—with deep hiring expertise in cloud, security, and defense tech, now advising mission-driven organisations on cleared and executive searches. A former youngest-ever store manager who led 400+ people by age 21, Jess blends frontline operational leadership with strategic talent-advisory skills and a commitment to inclusive hiring and returning women to work. She also contributes to open-source government projects on GOV.UK as a back-end developer, reflecting a practical technical awareness that informs her conversations with engineering leaders. Based in Brighton, she is a triathlete and working mum of two who brings resilience, commercial rigour and sector nuance to fast-scaling teams.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Criminology with Psychological Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCES, Criminology with Psychological Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCES at University of SouthamptonSecondary School & Sixth Form, A-Levels - Business Studies, Law, History & English, Secondary School & Sixth Form, A-Levels - Business Studies, Law, History & English at Frome College
Github Skills (8)
activerecord10
rails10
web-development10
web-application10
webapp10
ruby-on-rails10
front-end-development9
github8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Apr 2019 - Oct 2022
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 reviews, 53 commits, 57 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jess primarily focused on updating and maintaining features related to statistics announcements within the GOV.UK platform. They modified models and views to reflect changes to the statistics finder, including updating links and correcting comments. The user also addressed deprecation warnings and removed Brexit-related content notices and attributes from publishing API payloads. Furthermore, the user was involved in upgrading the Rails version and addressing related configuration changes.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
datagovuk/find-gov-data-v4
May 2017 - May 2023
Contributions:23 PRs, 20 pushes, 22 branches in 6 years
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