Gareth Paul Jones

“As an Engineering Manager, your Product Manager partner is key to the success of your team. They play a key role in defining the roadmap, establishing priority, and gathering data about your products directly with customers and via telemetry. Gareth is the best Product Manager I have had the pleasure of working with in my career. He is constantly thinking ahead, keeping his head up about what's next so we as Engineers can keep ours down. Gareth involves the engineering staff in decisions, consults with them directly (not only via the EM), and interfaces with partners across the company in the development of our products. Gareth is also a compassionate leader. While pushing the team and products forward via an aggressive roadmap, he's also aware that the humans at the core have limitations, and he adjusts when the team's ability to deliver cannot meet the desires of the company. Gareth stands firmly on the side of the team to provide alternatives so all needs are met. I enjoy working with Gareth as a partner, and I look forward to our continued collaboration in the years to come.”

“It’s not everyday you get the pleasure of working with truly jawdroppingly talented people like Gareth. I was extremely fortunate to have Gareth as a manager for my first two years at Foursquare. Beyond just being one of the most talented and impressive engineers and technologists I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with, I’d never experienced a manager that cared as much as him about his team’s personal improvement and career development. He helped me level up and grow both as an efficient employee and team member. Not a single person I’ve worked with has had more impact on the trajectory of my career and my only hope is that I get to work with him again in the future. I am extremely proud and grateful for the time we had together and I can only hope to become even just a fraction of the leader he is.”

“Gareth is, bar none, the best manager I’ve had in my career thus far. He is that unique type of manager who is able to expertly blend the personal and the professional. Put simply, Gareth just gets it. He not only deeply cares that you achieve professional success but he also tries to ensure that this is linked to your personal goals as well. With Gareth, this isn’t just idle chatter, it manifests itself in very tangible and meaningful ways. Here’s an example - in one of our very first one on one’s, he sat with me and asked me about my life story, patiently listening, asking only enough questions so that the chapters linked together in a way that made him understand my journey, what motivates me and what I am trying to achieve in my career. He was then able to use this as a strong basis for guiding the type of work I should be doing and where I should be focusing my time to get there. Best of all, he keeps you seriously accountable for the goals you’ve set for yourself. Gareth isn’t just a manager, he is a leader and a colleague, someone who not only knows the battlefield but also goes into battle with you. He is adamant about ensuring that all opinions are heard and everyone feels like they are part of the team and part of any decision making process - no matter how junior. Any employee would be absolutely lucky to have Gareth as a manager. ”

“I worked with Gareth over 2 years in both Google AdWords and on the Doubleclick AdExchange. Gareth was always a driver of innovation in both departments of Google, thinking outside the box and coming up with unique solutions to make processes more efficient, both within the team and for clients. Gareth was a pleasure to work with, bringing his good sense of humour and fun character to the team. He was also great with clients, confident and able to explain complex technical issues in a clear and simple manner. When I moved to the AdExchange, Gareth was a great source of knowledge and trained me on many of the key aspects I deal with on a day to day basis today.”

“Gareth is one the most creative and innovative people I have worked with. He was constantly inventing better and faster ways of doing things, which helped the overall productivity of the team. He is a very dedicated and hard working individual who I have no doubt will continue to impress in any role.”

“I had the great pleasure to work with Gareth on launching the EMEA buyers and sellers on the Advertising Exchange. Gareth is a rare deep technical expert, who can also communicate with Sales colleagues and customers, and is driven by growing his client's businesses. Though always in demand as our finest mind on Real Time Bidding Integrations, Gareth is incredibly selfless and generous with his time to technically mentor or train new team members. He is also one of the few people who can write a custom reporting application in the morning, and then deliver a Sales Presentation in the afternoon. I can definitely recommend Gareth to any technology company looking for technical wizardry. and a great team player.”