# Chase **Co-Founder & CEO at Snug** — Denver, CO, United States > Repeat founder and 0-to-1 product leader with 13 years building consumer products from scratch. Currently building Snug, an AI-native dating product. Career Archetype: **Launchpad Navigator** (HS-DG) — One of the first Launchpad Navigators on Saywise ## Links - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chasecroft - Website: https://www.chasecroft.com/ ## Experience ### GTM, OpenSymbolic (2026-06 – present) San Francisco, CA · The control plane for AI agents. Tight control where a wrong answer costs money. Speed everywhere else. ### Creator, Aligned Vote (2026-03 – present) Denver, CO ### Product Consultant, Oncade (2025-10 – 2026-02) Denver, CO · Consulting product strategy, brand, design, and marketing ### Co-Founder & CEO, Snug (2025-05 – present) Denver, Colorado, United States · Built a consumer AI-native dating product from scratch with a founding team of 5, handling all product design, user research, content strategy, and go-to-market execution. Onboarded 1,000 first-time users and achieved match-to-second-date metrics 15x higher than traditional dating apps by reimagining how people meet through shared venue experiences. Navigated App Store approval challenges and generated investor-ready product metrics. ### Product Consultant, Justpoint (2025-01 – 2025-05) Denver, CO · Helped Justpoint identify the need for a new consumer product offering, conducted research, and specced product for go to market ### Head of Product, WorkMade (2023-08 – 2025-09) Denver, Colorado, United States · Inherited a product with sub-5% activation and daily outages; rebuilt strategy from the ground up. 2x'd onboarding conversion and drove 2-3x penetration growth through contextual onboarding, referral programs, and narrative overhaul. Reduced CAC by 50% and achieved 99.9% uptime. Built an AI model using spending patterns and occupation to predict tax write-offs with 92% accuracy, increasing onboarding completion by 30%. ### Mentor, First Round Fast Track (2023-03 – 2024-02) San Francisco Bay Area · Bi-weekly mentoring within the First Round network ### Product Consultant, SmartAlbums Inc. (2023-02 – 2023-07) Denver, CO · Built product strategy for the team, job descriptions to build out a product team, and interviewed full product team including new head of product ### Independent Product Consultant, Independent Product Consultant (Oncade, Workmade, Justpoint, Pixellu) (2023-02 – present) Remote · Consulted across multiple early-stage companies on product strategy, onboarding optimization, analytics platforms, and 0-to-1 product development. For Oncade, defined product strategy and rebuilt go-to-market execution. For Workmade, audited and overhauled onboarding strategy while building analytics infrastructure. For Justpoint, architected a consumer watchdog app for drug safety and legal representation. For Pixellu, validated product strategy and built hiring frameworks. ### Lead Product Manager, New Ventures, Dropbox (2021-10 – 2022-12) San Francisco Bay Area · Inherited Dropbox Paper, a product weeks from shutdown, and built the strategic case to transform it into an enterprise knowledge management tool (Dropbox Dash). Ran analysis on 300K+ customers and led design sprints with the CEO. Scaled team 4x and managed 100+ stakeholders to migrate 80K B2B customers to the new platform. ### Product Manager, Tally Save, Tally (2019-11 – 2021-09) San Francisco Bay Area · Led a 40-person cross-functional team to launch a savings product achieving 60%+ four-week retention. Ran a post-launch sprint reducing CAC by 50%, improving WoW retention by 25%, and doubling onboarding conversion through 25 major product changes. ### Founder & CEO, Mischief (2018-04 – 2019-11) San Francisco Bay Area · Founded a gaming data platform and led a team of 8 from conception through product launch with zero marketing spend. Acquired 3,000 B2B users organically by building and managing a Discord community. Users showed 6x typical commerce conversion, leading to partnerships with Warner Bros., SEGA, and Square Enix. Owned VC fundraising, product roadmap, business development, and design. ### Senior Product Manager, Head of Digital Gaming, Walmart eCommerce (2017-08 – 2018-04) San Francisco Bay Area · Intrapreneurial role within Walmart's venture arm to incubate and lead Walmart's game streaming service from zero. Owned monetization strategy, studio partnerships, technical architecture, and led a $100M acquisition process. ### Product Manager, Market Intelligence (Acquired by Walmart), Jet.com (acquired by Walmart) (2016-04 – 2017-06) Greater New York City Area · Built predictive analytics tooling for category managers that drove a 4x increase in pricing system throughput with material impact on site conversion. Improved team SLAs by 50% through log analysis and scalable resiliency solutions. ### Manager, Consumer Electronics, Jet.com (2016-04 – 2016-12) New York, NY · Developed a merchandising algorithm that drove 150% increase in browse conversion. Built an ML inventory planning model at a hackathon that shipped to production, winning company-wide recognition. ### Senior Consultant, Strategy & Transformation, Capgemini Consulting (2015-05 – 2016-04) Greater New York City Area · Built analytics capability that became the foundation for $30M+ in annual recurring revenue. ### Senior Associate, Management Consulting, KPMG (2012-08 – 2015-05) Washington D.C. Metro Area · Received top performance rating of “1” in last 6 engagement reviews reserved for top 15% of the firm. Performance reviews led to two consecutive promotions from Senior Analyst, to Associate, to Senior Associate. Function: Business Transformation, Business Unit Strategy, Financial Planning & Analysis, Production Support, Process Reengineering, Change Management, Human Capital Analysis, IT Disaster Recovery, Management Information Systems, Regulatory Guidance, Network Optimization, Conducting Client Workshops / Client Interviews o Led as subject matter expert on Fortune 20 Financial Services project; directly managing 3 resources in Chicago and 2 in London for a revamping of a banking institutions derivative operations o Created Target Operating Model with estimated $7M annual savings for an Energy client’s Supply Chain & Production Operations/Maintenance business units through network optimization and enhanced maintenance machine learning ### Investment Banking Summer Analyst, JP Turner & Company, LLC (2011-04 – 2011-07) Atlanta, GA · o Conducted commercial due diligence on prospective private placement memorandums. Led to 4 private equity stakes. o Helped assemble syndicate of investors for $10M private placement equity deal with a large e-commerce provider prior to IPO. ### Financial Services Agent Intern, Northwestern Mutual (2010-05 – 2010-10) Atlanta, GA · o Built a network of over 100 prospects and clients through successful networking and gaining referrals o Established a personal business and upheld relations through databases, scheduling meetings, and using a team of over twenty staff members o Gained useful knowledge through daily training seminars and being paired with twenty year veterans for client meetings ## Education ### Post Graduate Studies in Computer Science, Columbia University in the City of New York (2016-09 – 2017-06) ### Bachelor’s Degree in Banking & Finance / Management, The University of Georgia (2008-09 – 2012-06) Activities and societies: - UGA HEROs Director of External Affairs - UGA HEROs Greek Affairs Committee - UGA HEROs Freshman Counsel Leader - Kappa Sigma Fraternity Philanthropy Chair - Alpha Kappa Psi Business Fraternity - Sigma Alpha Lambda Honors Fraternity ### High School Diploma, The Walker School ## Skills Product Strategy, Product Marketing, Product Launch, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Product Design, Product Management, Strategy, Leadership, E-commerce, Management Consulting, Financial Analysis, Data Analysis, Strategic Planning, Due Diligence, Market Research, Business Development, Finance, Sales, Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, prompt engineering, AI product development, ML model integration, 0-to-1 product development, consumer product strategy, roadmapping, A/B testing, lifecycle marketing, UX research, user interviews, design sprints, Agile, Figma, Framer, rapid prototyping, visual design, SQL, Mixpanel, Google Analytics, Firebase, Datadog, Amplitude, APIs, Kafka, distributed systems, ML/AI systems, computer networking, web scraping, Notion, Linear, Attio, GitHub, JIRA, UserTesting.com, Loops.so, Segment ## Credentials - **Jet.com Hackathon - "Most Likely to be Appreciated by our Customers"​** — Jet.com (issued 2017-02) - **Jet.com Hackathon - "Most Likely to Start Own Company"​** — Jet.com (issued 2016-07) - **KPMG Giving Tree Award** — KPMG LLP (issued 2014-10) - **HOPE Scholarship** — University of Georgia (issued 2009-08) - **CAIA** — CAIA Association (issued 2014-09) - **CFA Level 2 Candidate** — CFA Institute (issued 2014-06) - **Google Adwords Certified** — Google - **Google Analytics Individual Qualification (GAIQ)** — Google - **How Large Companies Can Deploy Minimum Viable Products (MVP's)** - **Do or Die: Reinventing Business Models for the Digital World (Part 3)** - **Do or Die: Reinventing Business Models for the Digital World (Part 2)** - **Do or Die: Reinventing Business Models for the Digital World** --- Source: https://saywise.com/croftcc1989 (last modified 2026-09-28T18:21:56.885Z)