# Benjamin Johns

**Lead AI Solution Architect @ Braze** — United States

> I've worked end-to-end from selling AI to enterprises to implementing over 20+ projects impacting >10M users. My goal: I hope to co-found many companies with real impact in the future and then work in venture capital later on. My beliefs: building cool products that serve people, which involves my experiences in elements such as Selling, Strategy and Technology. I love the 'Jack-of-all-Trades' persona and I embrace it fully via being the best in sport, music, and my career. I love technology and how it can influence every aspect of our lives (I believe philosophy does the same thing). My interests: some industries I'm eager to learn more about are consumer tech, fintech, EdTech and of course, artificial intelligence.

Career Archetype: **All-Terrain Navigator** (HB-DG) — One of the first All-Terrain Navigators on Saywise

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/benjamin-johns

## Experience

### Senior Engagement Manager, Applied AI, Braze (2025-06 – 2026-08)
Chicago, Illinois, United States · On June 2025, OfferFit was acquired by Braze Inc. a leader in customer engagement. Here, I continued to lead the highest-level, forward-deployed implementations for Fortune 500 clients under BrazeAI Decisioning Studio, our premium professional services offering.

### Senior Engagement Manager, Applied AI, OfferFit by Braze (2023-10 – 2025-06)
Joined Menlo-backed, Series B startup as one of the first forward-deployed technical implementors of AI (via contextual bandits) for Fortune 500 companies. Delivered 15+ enterprise implementations of reinforcement learning for marketers impacting >10M customers.

### Product Manager, Open Banking, Tangerine (2022-05 – 2023-10)
TL;DR: Led collaborative efforts with cross functional team of solution architects, engineers, and product teams to build Canada’s first open finance microservice in tandem with internal data APIs to be accessible to over 2M clients.

### Research And Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto (2021-09 – 2022-05)
One of the biggest highlights of my life, being able to teach over 500+ enrolled students on complex topics around the Philosophy of Mind. While doing so, I defended an award-winning, undergraduate thesis that explored topics around the ethics of autonomous vehicles concerning responsibility and its usage according to current and potential development.

### Product Manager, Developer Tools, Scotiabank (2020-09 – 2020-12)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

### Founding Engineer, Team Study (2019-08 – 2020-08)
First eng hire for a seed startup that was building a central repository for students to find, create, and share study notes. Grew user base from 0 to 2000+ students.

### Software Engineer - Trading, Scotiabank (2019-01 – 2019-01)
Toronto, Canada Area · Worked on optimizing message queues and monitoring systems for Scotiabank's High Frequency Trading Floor on Canada's Bay St

## Education

### Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Computer Science, University of Toronto (2017-01 – 2022-04)
Studied Computer Science for three years alongside my Philosophy major and wrote a thesis on the ethics of autonomous vehicles, responsibility and artificial intelligence.

## Projects

### Blocktivity
A productivity app using the Pomodoro technique to help students stay on task. Built with Android Studio, Java, HTML, CSS

### Vulcademy
Vulcademy is a tool created to make classroom learning run in an efficient and smooth way. With features such as polling, anonymous questions, and real time feedback, many current classroom issues can be easily dealt with. Students may ask questions, click buttons to alert the professor to speak up or slow down, record the lecture with professor permission, and rate the teaching at the end of the class.

## Skills

Product Service, Data Analysis, Go-to-Market Strategy, Strategic Roadmaps, Kotlin, Apache Kafka, Docker Products, Product Management, Product Development, Confluence, Strategic Planning, Technology Roadmapping, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Jira, User Stories, Google Analytics, Google BigQuery, Google Data Studio, Saas, Python (Programming Language), Analytics, SQL, Python, Java, Git, Project Management, Computer Science, scrum, Agile Methodologies, JavaScript, Microsoft Office, HTML, CSS, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Node.js, jira, Linux, OS X, Windows, Bash, Visual Studio, Leadership, Public Speaking, Teamwork, Time Management, Communication, Data Science, Qualitative Research

## Credentials

- **Scholarship for Academic Excellence in Business** — Bank of Montreal (BMO) (issued 2017-06)
- **Skills Ontario Competition Medal - Entrepreneurship** — Skills Ontario (issued 2017-05)
- **Top 10 Overall in DECA Ontario** — DECA Ontario (issued 2016-02)
- **Best Design** — Hack the Valley
- **First Place** — Scotiabank Hackathon
- **Professional Program in Data Science** — Microsoft (issued 2018-01)

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