Summary
Jonathan Tien is a product leader and angel investor with 14 years of experience scaling advertiser platforms and monetization products, most recently heading multiple Ads teams at Reddit. He has driven end-to-end advertiser experience, campaign management, reporting, Ads API, billing, and SMB growth initiatives across fast-growing ad businesses and has a background in hands-on engineering from his UC Berkeley CS degree. At Reddit he combined product strategy with operational execution—overseeing ad review, sales tools, generative AI bets, and platform design systems—to support rapid revenue growth. Jonathan also invests in deep-technology startups (e.g., Figure AI, Whisper Aero, Varda) and brings operator insight to early-stage founders. Based in New York, he balances strategic leadership with a pragmatic, data-informed approach to product and platform buildouts.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Saratoga High School
Chinese, English