David Shein

“David was an instrumental leader in rebooting and reinventing the Thumbtack Customer Growth team. In just over a year, David worked together with a few other leaders on the team to charter a new vision for Customer Growth at Thumbtack, and successfully implemented it. Our team set and then hit or exceeded multiple new and ambitious growth goals virtually every quarter in 2019. This simply would not have been possible without David rallying our cross-functional group towards a clear and compelling vision of what Customer Growth can do for Thumbtack. As an analytics partner and mentee of David's, I can honestly say working with David was a clear turning point in my career. David sets both high and clear expectations of his analytics peers, and gives us clear leeway to drive and deliver impact for the team and company. It is extremely easy for an analytics team to fall into the rut of acting purely as a "service function" and David, more so than any other PM or business/product executive I've worked with in my career, works hard to ensure his analytics partners do not fall into this rut. David sets a clear expectation that his analytics counterparts will drive the analytical agenda and tell him what they believe they and the team should be working on, rather than purely taking orders or instructions from the product/business team. This clear expectation has enabled the analysts on our team to drive a broad and ambitious analytics mandate, in turn enabling our Growth team to iterate, build, and learn at a rapid pace. David's impact as a PM, leader, and mentor is epitomized well in how he was able to take an entire month off for his honeymoon, overlapping completely with our quarterly planning cycle. Throughout this period, the Growth team seamlessly assembled and secured buy-in for its plan for the upcoming quarter, and continued execution apace without breaking a single stride. David groomed, coached, and enabled a variety of cross-functional partners and peers to seamlessly step into his role and continue to drive the vision that he helped us as a team collectively align and agree on. It was an honor to work with David. Any team, especially a Growth or Analytics team, would be lucky to have him working with them. I hope we get the chance to work together again in the future!”