James Sweeney

Jargon Group

Account Executive

Junior Account Executive

One Million Mentors

- Mentoring students to maximise their potential and achieve their goals in life, whether personal, academic, professional or anything in between!

Mentor

The Youth Group

•	Being a proud & positive advocate for The Youth Group & our global youth movement
•	Promoting The Youth Group & our aspirations to help improve the odds for young people

Changemaker

Henley Business School

- Analysed the effectiveness & efficiency of the Henley Business School’s communications
- Produced a ‘Communications Report’ summarising my findings & recommendations for future improvements

Student Engagement Research Administrator

University of Reading

Student Engagement Ambassador

•	Aided in the creation & running of the MyName project
•	Created content to be used across the university’s digital channels 
•	Helped coordinate a team of Student Voice Ambassadors
•	Presented & included the student voice across numerous university projects

Communications Co-ordinator (Professional Placement Year)

CELTIC LEISURE

- Assessed Swimmers off of set outcomes 
- Communicated with students of all backgrounds 
- Helped build and strengthen swimmer's confidence and belief in themselves
- Planned and organised Swimming lessons and activities
- Supported students learning and development inside and outside of lessons

Swimming Teacher

- Communicated with people from every walk of life
- Completed regular staff and first-aid training
-  Developed first aid skills and techniques which were implemented to save a student’s life on a college trip in China. 
- Performed water rescues when required
- Promoted the safety of all pool users.

Lifeguard

hhruk Consulting

- Working with hhruk on our new Health & Wellbeing Partnership as a Health & Wellbeing Associate.
- Creating blogs & courses on a range of different topics.

Health and Wellbeing Associate

Wall Colmonoy

- Gained first-hand experience of work in a large-scale company. 
- Implemented employees onto the company’s systems.
- Organised and prepared the company’s sales records in a professional and sorted manner. 
- Resolved Technical Issues, under supervision

Work Experience 

AE @ Jargon Group 🧑‍💻 Founder of Sweeney’s Blogs 💬 Changemaker for The Youth Group 👐 Digital Storyteller 📚

Wondered what it feels like to jump out of a plane at 12,000 feet? 🪂

I’m James Sweeney, it’s lovely to meet you! 

Growing up in the Swansea valleys, I’m incredibly passionate about people - whether it’s our culture, background, passions or the ways in which we process and understand the world around us, it’s something that absolutely fascinates me 🌍

Having gone through life as somebody with a stutter, in addition to facing troubles with my physical and mental health, one of my biggest aspirations in life is to help shape a community in which I can help as many people as possible. 

I’m a very keen writer, starting my own blog page in 2018, called Sweeney’s Blogs, where I shine a spotlight on the topics that genuinely mean something to each and every one of us as people. The page has become a key part of my life, and is one of the reasons how I found out about LinkedIn too, as it goes ✍️

I run a weekly series here called Sweeney’s Song of the Week. For these posts, I shout out some incredible people, mixing in my love for music and making the world a better place at the same time. 

In October 2018, I jumped out of a plane at 12,000 feet raising over £900 for The Alzheimer’s Society, which has to be one of the best (and scariest!) experiences of my life 🪂

Do you want to join me on my journey! Be sure to drop me a request and a message, I’d love a chat. 

Thanks for checking out my profile and I hope you have a cracking day 👋

Stealth Startup

Founder

Yahoo

- Promoted to Senior Product Manager, where I worked strategically to develop and successfully execute my vision and strategy for the Android and iOS apps

- Launched one of Finance’s most successful features ever by ideating, designing and launching a brand new symbol discovery experience

- Selected to lead a special project which was so successful I presented it to Yahoo’s 10,000 employees. The work saw me lead a team of 45 people where we took a highly innovative product from zero to one

- In total led over 70 separate initiatives over two years for 24 engineers, including supporting a second patent submission

Senior Product Manager

- Promoted to Associate Product Manager II, where I joined the Yahoo Finance team leading Yahoo Finance's Android app

- Promoted to become the sole product manager for Yahoo Finance's Android app, where in 3.5 months I increased its Play Store rating from 3.5 to 4.3 by rigorously focusing on the user, ultimately reaching an all-time high rating of 4.7

- Ideated and launched a series of highly successful symbol screen improvements, including a new like bar experience, a financial literacy feature and an entirely redesigned information architecture

- Significantly optimised performance and cost-effectiveness

Associate Product Manager II

- One of six selected to join Yahoo's prestigious APM program (0.3% acceptance rate), which offers the unique opportunity to drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for high-impact products across the company

- Secured >$150k of advertiser spend by leading the effort to launch a new DSP ad format via defining the strategy, pitching to advertisers, guiding internal teams and managing external partner relationships

 - Led the rollout of an industry-first, patent-pending product, an ad text strength indicator, by determining its direction as well as leading UX, development and research teams. The feature resulted in a 27% CTR lift for advertisers and has been prominently featured by AdAge and MediaPost

 - Led the effort to launch a brand new ad format by defining the strategy, guiding internal teams, coordinating with fellow internal stakeholders and managing external partner relationships

Associate Product Manager I

Beech

- Ideated, designed and built Today (thetoday.app), a free iOS & Android app which helps you to build habits from your to-dos through unique, timed tasks

- Received over 500 Product Hunt upvotes, including an endorsement by Product Hunt's founder, Ryan Hoover

Today Founder

- Developed code and designed UX for Node.js and AWS-powered app in three days

 - The web app uses unique Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms to combine a wide range of factors, like betting odds and people's online reaction to events, to build a picture of how probability is changing

 - A Twitter bot I built then selects the most interesting trends and tweets about them at @WillThisHappen

Will This Happen Founder

- Used by 15% of the campus in the first month after launch with an advertising budget of £20

 - It was built from scratch by myself over just one day

 - The web app continues to be an invaluable tool for students looking to compare university module results

Gradehack Founder

- Worked with various clients to refresh their websites’ user interfaces utilising wireframe sketching, Adobe Illustrator, testing the user experience with InVision and HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and PHP

 - Designed and developed a 64 page professionally printed magazine using Adobe InDesign

Freelance Coder & Designer

Revolut

- Product Manager for the B2C website of Revolut, one of the fastest growing fintech companies in the world

- Ensured the team consistently achieved its KPIs by balancing its tasks with requests from other teams, whilst also reporting the team’s progress every week to the CEO and CTO

- Significantly grew the number of new users through executing on a thorough SEO plan as well as improving conversion across all of the most viewed pages, including a 133% increase of the most visited page through ideating and executing on a series of structural and design improvements 

- Setup a comprehensive AB testing strategy which did not previously exist, through encouraging a bias towards testing, alongside developing and integrating testing tools to support teams across the company

- Scoped out and executed on a major website rebrand by developing a vision for what the website should achieve, supporting the new design in Figma, planning the development work and analysing its success

Product

Intro

- Co-founded startup that improves how businesses with a physical space understand & engage customers

 - Used by over 150 businesses, following pitches I conducted across the UK & at CES 2019

 - Built JS React Native app before hiring and managing a team to help further develop and market Intro

 - Secured investment and grant funding valuing the startup at over $500,000 prior to launch

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Intro bridges the gap between networking in person and then staying connected online, changing the game for event organisers and attendees alike.

For a fee, we provide event organisers access to our GDPR-compliant app, allowing attendees to seamlessly stay connected, whilst also passing connection information directly back to their own event app.

Co-Founder

Y Combinator

Completed Y Combinator Startup School's 10-week course by consistently attending lectures, communicating with other founders and completing frequent company updates

Spoke with YC partners Kevin Hale, Adora Cheung and Eric Migicovsky (Pebble founder) during the course's London meet-up

Startup School Member

Web Wise Media

- Alongside university studies, progressed to Lead Software Engineer of the website development agency 

- Took the lead in training new developers, whilst maintaining hands-on development role

Lead Software Engineer

- Created a wide range of websites with HTML, CSS, Javascript & PHP whilst also undertaking advanced graphic design work for clients using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator & Sketch

- Constantly liaised with clients whilst also working extensively with Wordpress and Shopify platforms

Software Engineer

Exeter Entrepreneurs

- Having been elected, ran the second largest society on campus by bringing in over 1000 new members

 - Planned and led 15 tech and business events, including our largest hackathon which attracted applications from 7 countries, by co-ordinating a multifaceted marketing campaign and managing a 12-strong team

President

- Having been elected, I co-ordinated the organisation’s events, product development and marketing by nurturing and enhancing internal communication whilst directing the resolution of an internal conflict

 - Developed exeterentrepreneurs.com from scratch & designed many online & print marketing material

 - Designed and led programming courses for other students

Head of Operations

EXCODE

- Received two academic awards and led the teaching of over 300 students by running free coding courses alongside my university studies, in Python and website development (HTML, CSS and Javascript)

 - Initially led the teaching of numerous Code First: Girls courses, whilst also managing a team of instructors

 - Then branched out into my own “Excode” courses, which I single-handedly designed and developed by building up and nurturing a 15-strong team of instructors and marketers, which are still successfully running

Coding Course Founder & Project Manager

International Competitive Sailing (ICS)

- Progressed to lead the instruction of children alongside managing the other instructors by consistently impressing employers and achieving numerous certifications

Chief Instructor

- Led the teaching of a class, whilst managing an assistant instructor

Group Instructor

Coached a range of group levels at one of the most renowned sailing courses in the country over many years.

Assistant Instructor

More about me: maxbeech.com

I aspire to have a material impact on the world around us by building innovative products that use data in new ways.

I have a first class degree in computer science and am currently building a startup.

Outside of work, I have built projects including a political outcomes predictor (willthishappen.com), a university module advisor (gradehack.com) and a new way to manage tasks (thetoday.app). I currently volunteer as the business advisor for a Young Enterprise company.

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