Summary
Jonathan Howard is a product and growth leader with eight years of startup experience who blends hands-on engineering with strategic go-to-market expertise as Chief Product Officer in San Francisco. A former founder and full-stack engineer, he now advises Seed and Series A teams on customer research, product-market fit, and repeatable growth experiments, often stepping in as a part-time CMO to de-risk hiring. He has a track record of translating quarterly product strategy into shipped MVPs, fundraising playbooks, and measurable metrics (TVL and retention) while still reviewing code to keep designs pragmatic. Jonathan’s history includes founding consumer and NFT ventures, leading pivots that enabled acquisitions, and building sales and Salesforce integrations from scratch—signal of both product intuition and operational rigor. He combines technical depth from a Computer Science background with a mentor’s mindset, running workshops and advising accelerators to scale founding teams without sacrificing user experience.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science w/ Honors, B.S. Computer Science w/ Honors at University of Maryland
French