Summary
Michael Mccarthy is a data-driven product leader with 12 years of experience turning ambiguous customer questions into measurable product outcomes across startups and global brands. He has led analytics and data science teams at Thumbtack, Instagram, Sittercity and SpotHero, launching and scaling products—from building Instagram’s nonprofit fundraising to driving a $50M annual donation run rate and increasing repeat service requests by 25% at Thumbtack. Comfortable at the intersection of product, experiments, and strategy, he has built company-wide analysis frameworks, price-recommendation roadmaps, and BI tooling that informed major fundraising and acquisition milestones. Based in Cincinnati, Michael combines a marketer’s intuition (B.S.B.A. in Marketing & Finance) with hands-on AI/ML and frontend curiosity, applying rigorous experimentation to make subjective user behaviors objectively actionable.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Staples High School
Bachelor of Science of Business Administration (B.S.B.A) Marketing & Finance, Bachelor of Science of Business Administration (B.S.B.A) Marketing & Finance at Washington University in St. Louis