Quick take:
- Web3 entertainment company Doodles has expanded its management team and welcomed three new employees.
- Austin Hurwitz, Joe Ranzenbach, and Jay Ciruolo build and develop products for Doodles NFT holders.
- Doodles is still looking for Head of Marketing, Head of Operations and Senior Frontend Engineer.
Doodles, the eponymous Web3 entertainment company NFTs The project expanded its leadership team with three new hires.
Founded by Jordan Castro, Evan Keast, and world-renowned visual artist Scott Martin, Doodles has become a successful NFT project with over $500 million in first-year transaction volume. It also runs Doodlebank, a community treasure trove. This will fund new ideas from collectors and ultimately give the community a say in how to expand his Doodles brand.
Last week, the company hired Austin Hurwitz, Joe Ranzenbach, and Jay Ciruolo to lead business development, product management, and front-end engineering, respectively.
Hurwitz announced his first day as Doodles’ head of business development on Monday and said he is looking forward to “collaborating across the industry to develop the world’s most enjoyable products and experiences for our holders.” I was.
He was the founder of Web3 advisory firm Chasing Curiosity, vice president of music operations, product team leader, and eventually senior vice president of Web3 & Community at music distribution platform Venice. Prior to that, he worked for Amazon for five years as a strategic vendor specialist for Amazon Outdoors and content acquisition manager for Amazon Music.
Doodles’ new head of product management, Joe Ranzenbach, joined last week in his first role at the Web3 company. Previously, he was Vice President of Products for Cardlytics, an advertising platform for banks’ digital channels.
Prior to that, Ranzenbach spent more than four years in product strategy and product management at digital media company Integral Ad Science. He has also served as product he manager for advertising services company Place IQ and vice president for financial data he provider PrivCo.
Jay Ciruolo, co-founder of comedy collectible platform Jambb, joins Hurwitz and Ranzenbach as part of Doodles’ latest leadership hire to lead front-end engineering for the company. He brings his 17 years of product building and design experience to his Doodles. Previously, he was Director of Engineering at AssetBlock, a startup that provides travel technology services, and Senior Software Design Engineer at Hubspot.
Last June, Doodles appointed American rapper Pharrell Williams has been appointed chief brand officer, and in September Completed the fundraiser $54 million led by Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six.
Doodles is looking to expand its team with openings for Head of Marketing, Head of Business Operations, and Senior Front-end Engineer, according to its LinkedIn page.
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