Jada Webster
Project Manager in Ohlone Land / Oakland CA, she/her
Actively seeking program, brand and strategy opportunities at the intersection of technology and community
Hi hi I'm Jada!
I like challenging people to think differently about the change they want to make in the world and their place in creating it. And I'm excited about participating in spaces at the forefront of innovation and community.
At Stanford University, I studied Symbolic Systems and Modern Languages and started the first social entrepreneurship organization on campus.
Most recently, I was a Project Manager and Creative Learning Producer at Studio where I led content visioning, strategy and program management for digital learning experiences.
In my past lives I've worked at a venture firm, a brand consulting agency, and a category design studio. I also spend a bit of my time volunteering at an Oakland thrift store as a part of the African People's Education and Defense Fund (ask me about the Black Power Blueprint!)
Early riser, heavy sleeper. Soul music, archival spaces, image design. Public library evangelist. Rooting for everybody Black.
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Work Experience
Designed and led portfolio strategy and content development for digital learning experience across two new verticals: Writing and DIY & Making.
Managed timelines and deliverables across entire project lifecycle, collaborating with stakeholders across Engineering, Product, and Production
Responsible for business development pipeline of 50+ creatives from Outreach to deal negotiation
Collaborated with instructors to develop instructional materials using low-touch content capture methods, accelerating production timelines by 5x
Conducted qualitative and quantitative research to monitor course outcomes and refine overall effectiveness.
Produced and directed multi-day shoots remotely
Researched and developed strategic visioning, comms and curriculum.
Helped direct and execute our corporate marketing strategy; produced multiple, 200+ events in the Bay Area, New York and Seattle including cruises, conferences, speaker series, stealth-startup networking nights.
Managed teams of associates at Stanford and Berkeley for our University Program
Integrated User Experience tracking into our formal processes, including NPS
Began visioning and MVP work on Community Membership and Development
Partnered with ambitious college engineers to help them find life-changing career opportunities. Collaborated with early-stage founders to build out their talent infrastructure and foundational engineering teams
During my time at HC, the firm grew from managing less than $5M to over $500M and helped onboard several of the first 50 engineers at Brex, Robinhood, Snowflake, Nuro, and more
Researched brand & marketing initiatives of potential clients; Supported in the creation of consulting pitch decks; Participated in strategy brainstorming sessions and project post-mortems; Assisted in new business pipeline analysis quarterly reports
Assisted in crafting meaningful strategic stories across strategy, messaging and brand initiatives
Curated/ translated daily Lava Jato materials for client updates and presentations; Completed project on Brazilian Internet presence in global markets
Education
Symbolic Systems is an interdisciplinary program that combines computer science, psychology, philosophy, and linguistics in order to better understand cognition in both humans and machines. Viewing people and computers as symbol processors, the Symbolic Systems major strives to understand how people and computers reason, perceive, and act
Minor in Modern Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Coursework: Computer Science, Minds and Machines, Cognition in Interaction Design, Making Sense of Strategy, Decision Analysis/ Optimization, Mathematical Logic, Social Sector Analytic Skills, Epistemology, Human Behavioral Biology, Growing Up Bilingual
Invited as 1 of 2 students to speak at Ashoka U, the largest social e conference in U.S., for a community lunch
Volunteering
(2020) State Senate
(2024) District Supervisor
Joined on weekly phone banking, literature drops, Election Day volunteering
Continued participation in pushing forward the work of Jackie's campaign through the DayBreak Political Action Committee daybreakpac.org/about
The African People's Education & Defense Fund (APEDF) develops and institutionalizes programs to defend the human and civil rights of the African community, and to address the grave disparities in education, health, healthcare, and economic development faced by African people
Implemented overall strategy to foster social e ecosystem by leading ~40 member student group across Learning, Marketing, Very Impactful People speaker series, SENSA Labs social e accelerator, Fellowships, Operations teams
Managed 'URBST 131: Very Impactful People: The Social Entrepreneur and The Social Innovator’, a weekly 110+ person lecture series bringing social entrepreneurs from around the world to Stanford; brought 20+ speakers to Stanford including Sally Osberg, Jimmy Wales, and Wendy Kopp
Awarded $24,000 to SENSA Summer Fellowship recipients to work at top social-e enterprises
Awards
Awarded to Stanford undergraduate students interested in completing an independent internship with an organization in Brazil
Spent the Summer of 2015 working at a Brunswick Group in São Paulo