Stephanie Lily Kim

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Founder at Anchor Finance · Edtech · content, growth

Anchor Finance
Boston, MA · ET (UTC-5)
12+ years experience
Harvard Business School
English
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Overview

Founder of Anchor Finance (edtech). 14 years of building before that. Signed 372 paying customers, 23 of them enterprises. Most at home with mobile and content.

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Skills
growthcontenteducationmobile
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Hiring our first product designer at Anchor Finance - Boston

Role
Product designer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$186k-$223k
Team
Founding team, 8 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
A portfolio of shipped product work Comfort working directly with engineers Ownership of something end to end
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp $208k-$234k. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Boston, MAcontenteducationgrowth
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $750k seed for compliance automation for nonprofits

Stage
Seed
Raising
$750k
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Lead in place
Traction
40% month-on-month growth after 16 months
Use of funds
Engineering hires and the first sales team

40% month-on-month growth after 16 months. Looking for investors who know public sector tech and can help with hiring.

Boston, MAeducationcontentmobile

Experience

  1. Founder
    Mar 2023 - Present
    Anchor Finance · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Previously built and sold a small edtech company.
    • Raised $25 million across 3 rounds.
  2. Principal Product Manager
    Sep 2021 - Mar 2023
    Ford · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Sit on 6 boards.
  3. Principal Product Manager
    Jan 2018 - Jul 2021
    Disney · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Sit on 5 boards.
  4. Director of Product
    Feb 2016 - Oct 2017
    PwC · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new creator customers from 21 days to 4.
    • Ran 49 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  5. Product Manager
    Sep 2014 - Feb 2016
    Comcast · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Killed 4 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.
    • Grew creator revenue from $7 million to $33 million ARR.

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Education

  1. Harvard Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2012 - 2014
  2. University of Pennsylvania
    BS, Engineering
    2007 - 2011

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