Kelly Mayes

Kelly Mayes has worked in the tech industry since 1999. Kelly began their career as a Senior Consultant at Accenture, where they were a programmer and tech lead on engineering teams of 5-10 people. Kelly then worked at Authorize.Net as a Senior Product Manager, where they managed a team of two Product Managers and Business Analysts for a Payment Gateway product with over $50M in annual revenue. In 2008, they moved to Gaia Interactive as the Director of Product. In 2010, they joined Zynga as a Senior Product Manager, where they developed the social gameplay platform initiative (Zynga.com). From 2012-2013, they worked at Grokker as the Head of Product. In 2013, they joined Meta as a Product Manager and Product Lead for Groups & Public Conversations and Videos, respectively. At Roblox, they held the role of Senior Director of Product Management from 2017-2022, where they established the Social strategy for Roblox and formed the Social and Communication teams. Currently, they are the Product Lead at ClassDojo.

Kelly Mayes holds an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business in General Management, and a BS in Computer Science and Physics from the University of Washington.