Steven S
Vice President, Product Management, Buyers at Whatnot
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven S is a product leader with over 15 years of experience and a strong technical background from USC, currently serving as VP of Product Management for Buyers at Whatnot. He has spent the past decade shaping discovery, monetization, and live experiences at scale through roles at Whatnot and Twitch, leading product, systems, and operations across sign-up, ML/AI-driven feeds, search, and post-purchase support. Known for blending technical product management with growth and ecosystem thinking, he moves teams from experimentation to reliable production systems. Based in Los Angeles, he brings a gamer and platform-first sensibility from earlier work at Riot Games, translating engagement insights into measurable buyer retention and funnel improvements. An operator who values simplicity, he’s focused on making it easier for people to find what they love and keep coming back.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Business of Cinematic Arts, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Business of Cinematic Arts at University of Southern California
Github Skills (13)
capstone7
tweet5
sentiment5
keyword5
twitter4
sentiment-analysis4
java4
meta-tags4
parse4
reddit4
nlp3
python3
social-network-analysis2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
StevenMarsh/SocialListening
Sep 2019 - Nov 2020
Parse Tweets and Reddit posts, using keyword lookups relevant to our clients, to conduct sentiment analysis on the data we find
Contributions:16 commits, 5 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 1 month
nlpsocial-network-analysispythonsentimentmeta-tags
StevenMarsh/personal-website
Apr 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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