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Amara ChenFounded · 202101 / 08

San Francisco

PT · UTC-8

ex-Stripe

01·Team · Leadership

Amara Chen

Co-founder & CEO

"Building the job marketplace the industry actually deserves."

02·About

A little more about Amara

Amara started Joblo in 2021 after eight years leading product at Stripe, where she watched hiring — for both sides — get slower, spammier, and less honest every year. She figured someone should try to fix it, then realized that someone was probably her.

Today she runs the company from San Francisco with a small senior team spread across four cities. She still reviews every featured company personally and jumps into product weeklies more often than she should.

Philosophy
"If we can't confidently recommend a role to someone we love, we don't publish it. That's the whole company in one sentence."

Currently working on

Getting Joblo's employer suite to feel as thoughtful as the candidate side.

03·Career

Where Amara has been

  1. S

    Director of Product, Payments Growth

    2016 — 2021

    Stripe

    — Grew activation team from 3 to 24

  2. S

    Senior PM, Merchant Onboarding

    2013 — 2016

    Square

  3. Y

    Fellow, W12

    2012 — 2012

    Y Combinator

04·Selected work

Writing & talks