Mark Macdonald
Product, PLG at Yext
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Macdonald is a product leader with 11+ years building user-centric, technically sophisticated products across startups and scale-ups, currently focused on PLG at Yext. He drove Community Growth at Strava for 120M+ athletes, leading ML-integrated initiatives that improved retention 50% YoY and delivered the company’s largest revenue-driving personalized Year In Sport experience. Prior roles at Newsela and Academia honed his expertise in content discovery, experimentation frameworks, and data-informed roadmap planning, while his founder experience at Gazet demonstrates hands-on engineering and go-to-market chops. He combines quantitative rigor (SQL/experimentation/forecasting) with a design-driven sensibility to make complex systems feel intuitive. Known for sympathetic leadership, he’s equally comfortable mentoring PMs, collaborating with C-suite stakeholders, and shipping cross-functional products that change user behavior. Based in Oakland, he’s motivated by how technology reshapes communication and creativity, and often brings humility, curiosity and humor to high-stakes product work.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program Computer Science, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program Computer Science at Hack ReactorBachelor of Science - BS Experimental Psychology, Bachelor of Science - BS Experimental Psychology at University of York
Github Skills (34)
javascript10
css10
robust10
grids9
layout9
draggable9
resize9
grid-system9
bin-packing9
drag-and-drop9
grid9
resizable9
grid-layout9
breakpoints9
html5-boilerplate9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mosse/humblebrag
Aug 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
mosse/HarmoniousWombat
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:29 pushes, 8 branches in 2 months
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