Jeza Mancenido

I bring emerging AI products to market | Building 0-1 Consumer tech | GTM, Partnerships, Growth, Brand, Marketing | 2x founding GTM lead at Google + Meta AI research

Metaex-Googleex-PwC Australia

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I bring emerging AI products to I care a lot about helping people become more capable, more creative, more connected, and more

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I’ve spent most of my career in the messy middle where emerging technology, customers, partners, trust, GTM, and operations all have to work together. I love being part of the start: the stage where something new has to become understandable, useful, and real for the people it is meant to Today I work with early-stage AI and consumer technology teams on GTM, partnerships, growth, business operations, launch strategy, customer discovery, and operating cadence. Current work includes bringing a confidential consumer AI product to market and turning early customer signals into a repeatable path to Before this chapter, I was a 2x founding lead across Google Cloud’s Asia-Pacific market launch and Google Maps Platform monetization, building GTM motions, commercial models, partner ecosystems, and operating rhythms from the ground up. Later, when Google Meet became critical global infrastructure during the pandemic, I was tapped to help build the operating model through a 44X surge while the product was scaling in real After Google, I moved deliberately into AI because it was clear the market was shifting. I wanted to understand how foundation-model organizations operate, what they need to scale, and how AI moves from research capability into products, customers, and ecosystems. That led me to Meta AI Research Operations, where I supported portfolio management, cross-functional strategy, and operating cadence as an AI research organization scaled across multiple The thread through all of it is trust and adoption. I’m always asking what it takes for people to try something new, trust it, build on it, pay for it, create with it, and bring it into their I do my best work in builder mode: shaping the business strategy, building the operating rhythm, translating between product and market, and turning the first messy version into something a team can Always happy to meet founders, operators, investors, recruiters, and people building products at the intersection of AI, culture, creativity, and human Now based in LA, forever an Aussie New Yorker and a Knicks fan. Send me your favorite restaurant recs.