Joris Van Mens

Head of Product, Payments

2025

Financing & software for sustainable home upgrades

Partner

2020

Invested in 20+ Climate Tech startups, partner at Climate Capital Syndicate (2022+)

Head of Product, Google Pay Americas

2022 - 2025

- Launched Pix on Wallet & Chrome in Brazil, in collaboration with BR's Central Bank - Sunset the GPay US app and transitioned users to Wallet, saving $xxM annually

Head of Product, Next Billion Users

2015 - 2022

Led Product for "Next Billion Users" incubator (15 PMs). Product achievements include: - Files by Google: storage management & offline sharing app, idea to 550M MAU - <internal>: converting open web to visual stories using generative AI, 5M MAU - Camera Go: state-of-the-art camera with ML for low-end phones, idea to 10M MAU - Task Mate: microtasking service to deliver diverse datasets for Google AI, $1M+ GMV - Kormo: jobs platform for India, Bangladesh and Indonesia, grew to 2M MAU

Financial Analyst / Industry Analyst / Account Manager

2010 - 2015

Co-Founder

2019 - 2022

Built a platform to help Mexican households & SMBs switch to solar energy. Acquired by Sunwise.

Guest Lecturer

2017 - 2021

Guest lecturer at Berkeley, Northwestern and Product School on new product development