Ruby Brooks

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Co-founder & CTO at Jade Labs · consumer brands, marketing

Jade Labs
Boston, MA · ET (UTC-5)
12+ years experience
Kellogg School of Management
English, Hindi
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Overview

Co-founder & CTO of Jade Labs, working on D2C food brands. Took Jade Labs from zero to $10 million ARR. Before that: Netflix and Pfizer. Volunteer coding coach for school students.

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Skills
consumer brandsmarketingsupply chain
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Series B round open - returns management for farmer cooperatives, $167k MRR

Stage
Series B
Raising
$167k
Instrument
Convertible note
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$167k MRR after 19 months
Use of funds
Go-to-market in two new countries

$167k MRR after 19 months. Looking for investors who know cybersecurity and can help with expansion into India.

Boston, MAsupply chainconsumer brandsmarketing
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HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Jade Labs is hiring 4 account executives in Boston

Role
Account executive
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$181k-$218k + equity
Team
Founding team, 3 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
A record of closing B2B deals Experience selling to the buyers we sell to Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp $170k-$246k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Boston, MAconsumer brandssupply chainmarketing
Open

Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    Jan 2024 - Present
    Jade Labs · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Took Jade Labs from zero to $7 million ARR.
    • Raised $17 million across 3 rounds.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Dec 2021 - Jan 2024
    Netflix · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Led or co-led 33 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Apr 2019 - Dec 2021
    Pfizer · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 31% in two quarters.
    • Built the experimentation framework 37 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  4. Principal Engineer
    Aug 2017 - Apr 2019
    Spotify · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Previously an operator for 11 years before investing.
    • Led or co-led 25 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later.
  5. Senior Engineering Manager
    Mar 2015 - Aug 2017
    Citi · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Shipped 25 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
    • Led the migration of 76 services to supply chain.

Projects

Side project: a commute planner
2024

Built with supply chain and consumer brands. 372 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. Kellogg School of Management
    MBA, Business Administration
    2012 - 2014
  2. Harvard University
    AB, Business Administration
    2005 - 2009

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