John Friday
Senior Product Manager - Consumer Mobile App & Innovation
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Friday is a Bay Area product leader with 11 years of experience building user-first mobile and web experiences that scale globally, currently shaping consumer mobile and innovation at Common Sense Media. He has driven features at Meitu’s AirBrush app that reached 20M monthly active users and led photo and video product efforts at Asurion and Leia, blending creativity with technical product strategy. John’s strength is rigorous, mixed-method user research—A/B testing, diary studies, surveys, and interviews—paired with a strategic vision for growth-stage consumer products. Passionate about generative AI, he focuses on practical ways it can deepen user engagement and redefine product interactions. A Stanford LEAD alum with a background in world economy and Mandarin from Ohio State, he brings cross-cultural insight and a founder’s curiosity from his MiniMeme startup days.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford LEAD Business Program, Stanford LEAD Business Program at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBachelor of Arts (B.A.) World Economy & Mandarin Chinese (minor), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) World Economy & Mandarin Chinese (minor) at The Ohio State University
Chinese
Stackoverflow
123reputation
16kreached
2answers
17questions
Github Skills (42)
objective-c9
refresh9
pull-to-refresh8
3d8
video-processing8
chrome-extension8
xml-parser8
ios-framework8
swift7
ios7
chrome7
html-parser7
gpu7
macos7
external6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zcill/-Ver-1.1.2
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
zcill/LifeTools
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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