Jing Yang

Jing Yang has a strong background in engineering and leadership roles. Jing is currently the Director of Engineering, Commerce, Identity, and Governance at Outreach. In this position, they oversee three engineering teams to ensure a seamless, secure, and robust customer experience while driving revenue and profitability. Jing is also responsible for hiring an Engineering Manager for exciting projects within the organization. Prior to their current role, Jing was the Director of Engineering, Commerce Platform at Outreach, where they led the commerce platform and monetization technology to accelerate revenue growth and improve the commerce experience for customers.

Before joining Outreach, Jing worked at Amazon for several years. Jing'sroles there included Sr. Manager, Engineering, Product, and Science Leader, where they led technologies for purchase pricing, supplier negotiation, and profitability optimization for the core retail business. Jing was responsible for building and supporting a cross-functional organization of talented software engineers, product managers, research scientists, and engineering managers. Jing also held positions as Software Dev Manager, Profitability; Sr. SDE, Founding Engineer, Profitability; SDE II, Tech Lead, Promotion; SDE II, Pricing; and SDE I, Vendor Funding at Amazon.

Jing's early experience includes a research assistant role at The Auton Lab, Carnegie Mellon University.

Jing Yang completed their Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Security at Wuhan University from 2004 to 2008. They then pursued a Masters of Science degree in Computational Data Science from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, from 2008 to 2009.