Marcus Lofthouse

Marcus Lofthouse is the current Chief Product Officer at OkCupid. Prior to this, they served as the Head of Product Design/User Experience at Audible, Inc. (an Amazon company) from February 2016 to March 2019. Marcus has also held positions as a Director, Experience Design at Huge from June 2015 to February 2016, and as Senior Director, Product Design/User Experience at Yodle from November 2011 to June 2015. In their role at Yodle, they oversaw and provided direction for the team of visual designers, interaction designers, and front-end developers, creating user experiences for products ranging from customer dashboards and internal tooling to mobile applications. Prior to that, Lofthouse served as a User Experience Manager at Mandiant from April 2011 to October 2011. Marcus has also held positions as a User Experience Designer at Lofthouse Design from November 2010 to April 2011, and as Manager of Front-End Development & User Experience at TuneCore from March 2007 to December 2010.

Marcus Lofthouse has a Masters of Information Science from Kent State University, with a focus in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management. Marcus also has a BM from Oberlin College in Music Composition and Theory.

Marcus Lofthouse works with Lavanya Poreddy - VP, Trust & Safety and Customer Care, Alex Dumitriu - CIO, and Melissa Hobley - CMO. A direct report to Marcus Lofthouse is and Quinn Mcgee - Associate Product Manager. Their manager is Ariel Charytan, CEO.