Lauren Bilbo
Stanford MBA, Google Software Engineer, Non-profit Board Director
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Google
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Lauren’s Career Coaching Qualifications
Experience level: Manager
10+ people coached for Career Coaching
Hi, I'm Lauren. I am a Stanford MBA and former senior software engineer at Google. I'd love to help you grow your career! As a former manager at Google, I have led several engineers on my team through successful promotions. As someone who has navigated the path from engineering leadership to entrepreneurship, I can also advise on career pivots. I know what it takes to succeed in competitive, high-pressure environments, and I'd love to help you succeed as well.
Lauren can help with:
Career Planning
Freelancing
Interview Prep
Job Search Strategies
Networking Strategy
Professional Networking
Resume Review
Skill Building
Work Experience
Board Member
Sunday Friends
June 2024 - Present
Investment Partner
The MBA Fund
October 2023 - Present
Pre-seed/seed fund that backs entrepreneurs from the Stanford, Harvard, and UPenn ecosystems
Manager, Software Engineering
July 2022 - July 2023
• Led team of 6 engineers to design and launch Waze Parking experiment, a new revenue stream projected to bring millions in annual revenue; partnered cross-functionally to co-own Waze parking strategy and product roadmap • Managed a team of two engineers; oversaw their successful launch of Waze Gas Discount experiment, projected to generate millions in annual revenue • Trailblazed rapid prototyping at Waze, leading a team of 9 engineers to deliver 3 user-facing prototypes in the Waze app within 3 quarters. Established Waze-wide best practices for rapid prototyping • Set technical direction for team of 12 engineers who own the Waze ad serving platform, which serves > 140M monthly active users globally Rapid Prototyping, Technology Roadmapping and +9 skills
Senior Software Engineer
October 2021 - July 2022
• Led 3 engineers in a 1.5 year project to design, build, launch, and land an A/B test framework that enables experimentation on ad serving algorithms to maximize advertiser spend • Established API oversight at Waze, introducing best practices and a review process to enforce quality standards Java, API Development and +6 skills
Software Engineer
May 2019 - October 2021
• Contributed $4 MM in annual revenue by proposing an algorithm to improve ad campaign delivery, then mentoring a junior engineer to design and implement it • Increased average revenue per Waze session 20% in key markets by introducing an ML-based ad ranking algorithm Java, SQL and +3 skills
Supply Chain Intern
Microsoft
May 2016 - August 2016
• Slashed capital expenditure through asset management process for device manufacturing, resulting in cost impact of approximately $50 MM • Enabled optimized capacity investment decisions through custom tool modeling impact of forecasted product demand and sensitivity of yield assumptions in capital spend scenarios • Championed asset tracking tool to monitor current asset state, identify reuse opportunities, and supply data-driven cost-benchmarking models for future asset purchases Lean Manufacturing
Lauren was also given offers to work at
Palantir Technologies
Intel
Qualcomm
Education
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Master of Business Administration - MBA
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
MSE, Electrical Engineering
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