Jonathan Assayag
Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, I have been in the US for several years and am currently living in San Francisco. I work as a Product Manager for Zinch.com, having been hired due to my ScholarshipKey entrepreneurial experience, my business backg
| Headline: | Startup Member |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Website: | http://www.hbs.edu/mba/perspectives/students/2010/jassaya... |
| Skills: | Business, Design, English, Entrepreneurship, Languages, Portuguese, Product design, Spanish |
| Location: | San Francisco, CA (USA) |
| Groups: | HBS Entrepreneurship Club |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Tags: | brazil, product manager, silicone valley, tech |
| Schools: | Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard Business School |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | ZINCH.COM |
| Position: | Product Manager |
| Time period: | January 2010 - Present |
| Description: | Responsible for site-wide lead-gen products, building scholarship product from scratch, and
partner APIs; products used by 300K+students/day; Participated in 6 month site-wide relaunch on Drupal platform |
| Employer: | HandsOn Bay Area |
| Position: | Volunteer |
| Description: | Participate at various events per month to aid homeless in San Francisco |
| Employer: | SCHOLARSHIPKEY.COM |
| Position: | Product Manager / Sales & Marketing / CEO |
| Time period: | January 2008 - December 2009 |
| Description: | Founded and led execution of my business plan for $100M B2B opportunity connecting students with scholarships.
Awarded Harvard Arthur Rock Entrepreneurship Summer Fellowship; LightSpeed Venture Summer Program Finalist |
| Employer: | Junior Achievement |
| Position: | Teacher |
| Time period: | May 2007 - July 2007 |
| Description: | Taught economics to a special needs 6th grade class |
| Employer: | New York Cares |
| Position: | Project Leader |
| Time period: | January 2007 - December 2008 |
| Description: | Led 8 volunteers to do facility repairs in a Public School in Harlem |
| Employer: | New York Cares |
| Position: | Project Leader |
| Time period: | December 2006 - November 2008 |
| Description: | Led 8 volunteers to do facility repairs in a Public School in Harlem |
| Employer: | DELOITTE CONSULTING, LLP – Strategy & Operations |
| Position: | Business Analyst, Consultant |
| Time period: | January 2005 - December 2008 |
| Description: | Customer Experience Design/Telecommunication: Designed customer experience of consumer web portal for a new $3B business by designing user flows, developing playbook, and managing leading practices assessment.
Project Management/Financial Services: Designed step-by-step work plans for 12 bank merger integration projects. Managed daily performance, advised project leads, and delivered weekly status reports to management. Partnership Expansion Strategy/Airline: Managed formulation of initiatives to promote new customer acquisition, develop new products/services, and increase customer spending through expansion of existing relationship. Internal Deloitte Initiatives: Started national diversity recruiting program. Managed team with of 35 participants and budget of $30K. Elected NY Champion of Analyst Retention and implemented Analyst Forum nationally. |
| Employer: | Deloitte Consulting, LLP - Strategy & Operations |
| Position: | Business Analyst; Consultant |
| Time period: | December 2004 - November 2008 |
| Description: | Business Analyst – Received highest national rating for business analyst in 2007 (top 15%). Consultant – Promoted in September 2007.
Client Projects: • Partnership Expansion Strategy: Managed formulation of initiatives to promote new customer acquisition, develop new products/services, and increase customer spending through expansion of existing relationship between largest passenger airline and non-profit organization for the arts. • Customer Experience Strategy: Designed customer experience strategy for new $3 billion business by collaborating with team to develop customer experience playbook. Managed cross-industry leading practices assessment to augment playbook. Built business case model to quantify future customer experience initiatives for leading wireless telecommunications provider. • Manufacturing and Retail Marketing Study: Published report based on in-depth industry survey analysis describing emerging shopper marketing trends and leading practices. Developed model to measure company’s shopper marketing maturity level against industry for Grocery Manufacturers/Food Products Association. • Annual Operating Plan Development: Led development of management dashboard to provide strategic analysis of trends and forecasts. Collaborated in designing 2007 annual operating plan for large pharmaceutical company. • Simulation War Game Design: Created detailed annual report and financial statement for fictitious $92 billion company to represent global transportation industry in energy disruption simulation game between US Department of Defense and China Central Party School. • Software Compliance Assessment: Identified top 50 out-of-compliance target customers and performed data analysis to quantify cross-sell/up-sell opportunities for global software client resulting in sales increase of $75M. Internal Initiatives: • Started national diversity recruiting program targeted towards Hispanic engineers. Managed team with upwards of 35 participants and budget of $30K. Grew program to become first-tier initiative across all Deloitte functions. • Elected as New York Office Champion of Retention for Business Analysts Program. Directed team of 5 analysts in making significant local and national improvements to Business Analyst Program, including development of nationally implemented Analyst Forum. |
| Employer: | Accenture |
| Position: | Summer Analyst |
| Time period: | May 2004 - July 2004 |
| Description: | Oversaw development process of digital retail platform for a leading telecommunication provider. |
| Employer: | Motorola, Inc. – iDEN Product Development |
| Position: | Summer Intern |
| Time period: | December 1999 - November 2003 |
| Description: | Led design of new Nextel phone accessory and tested several mechanical prototype components for product launch. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Harvard Business School |
| Time period: | 2007 - 2010 |
| Degree: | MBA |
| University: | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Time period: | 2000 - 2005 |
| Degree: | Mechanical Engineering and Economics, BSc |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | YMCA volleyball, acoustic guitar |
| Clubs: | Harvard Business School - VP of Speakers for Entrepreneurship Club |
| Awards: | National Society of Hispanic MBAs Scholarship Recipient; HBS Fellowship Recipient |
