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Evan Ward

Computer Science Intelligence Analyst @ Mercor | ex-Google & VC, Harvard MBA, UMich Engineer

Atlanta, Georgia

Work Experience

2025

  • Computer Science Intelligence Analyst

    2025

    Collaborating with leading AI labs to develop a first-of-its-kind public benchmark for assessing the capabilities of frontier agentic AI models.

2024 - 2025

  • Head of Product

    2024 - 2025

    Spearheaded product and partnerships that achieved $1.5M in daily token trading volume, secured $1.2M in added liquidity, and grew user engagement by 180%.

2023 - 2023

  • Senior Product Consultant

    2023 - 2023

    For clients like Trust & Will and Tony Robbins, accelerated product launches from monthly to weekly by implementing the XP framework and developed key middleware and machine learning features.

2021 - 2022

  • Senior Investment Associate

    2021 - 2022

    Venture Capital firm with $500M AUM Portfolio: DeepMind, Skype, FanDuel, Vicarious, Rigetti, Bestow, IngeniousIO

2021 - 2021

  • Summer Investment Associate

    2021 - 2021

    Led due diligence on 5 successful pre-seed/seed investments after establishing a sourcing pipeline with over 50 university accelerator programs.

2015 - 2020

  • Product Manager

    2020 - 2020

    Launched a new feature in Google Maps during the COVID-19 pandemic, enabling merchants to showcase their services.

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2015 - 2020

    Reserve with Google: Developed a reservation platform integrated across Google products that increased daily bookings from 50K to over 1M. Google Cloud: Developed and launched a low-code tool within GCP, allowing for rapid app development and deployment.

2014 - 2014

  • Associate Product Manager

    2014 - 2014

2013 - 2013

  • Engineering Practicum

    2013 - 2013

2012 - 2012

  • Software Intern

    2012 - 2012

  • Engineering Intern

    2010 - 2010