Upwork Welcomes New Chief Product & Experience Officer, Sam Bright
November 17 2020 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Visionary product leader joins world’s largest
work marketplace
Upwork (UPWK), the world’s largest work marketplace, today
announced Sam Bright has joined the company as its new Chief
Product & Experience Officer.
Bright is a senior operating executive with over 16 years of
extensive experience scaling technology teams, businesses, and
customer experiences. His career reflects a demonstrated track
record of growing multi-billion dollar P&Ls, executing complex
domestic and global transactions, and leading large teams through
inflection points. Prior to joining Upwork, Bright was the Vice
President and General Manager of Verticals at eBay and had P&L
responsibility for the company’s North American vertical business
units.
During prior roles at eBay, Bright executed 70+ partnerships in
two years across B2C, C2C, product, marketing, verticals, and
shipping domains, and spent time on the M&A strategy team,
where he championed four transactions focused on machine
translation, shipping, and cross-border trade. Before joining eBay,
Bright advised on over $10 billion of tech mergers and acquisition
deal processes at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and served as an
industry analyst at Forrester Research advising Chief Information
Officers through tech research and consulting. He began his career
leading market research for entrepreneurs at a business
incubator.
“At Upwork, we’re committed to propelling the world of work
forward and providing both clients and talent with more control and
freedom over their businesses and careers,” said Hayden Brown,
President and CEO of Upwork. “Sam is an innovative, bold, and
visionary leader who will make a major impact on how we help our
customers unlock their potential and discover the truly
transformational new way of working that is only available through
the Upwork marketplace.”
“I’m excited by the opportunity to lead product, design, and
customer experience for the company at the forefront of helping
businesses, from small to large, discover a powerful new way of
working,” said Bright. “Upwork’s work marketplace is transforming
the way people work by giving them access to a dynamic virtual
talent bench that helps them unlock new possibilities for their
company. I am also inspired by Upwork’s mission of creating
economic opportunities so people have better lives, and look
forward to building upon the end-to-end experience that brings this
mission to life in bold new ways.”
Bright holds an M.B.A. from Harvard University and a B.A. in
Management from Taylor University. He is credentialed as an NACD
Governance Fellow, and serves on the Board of Directors at Benetech
as well as on the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum Advisory
Council. Bright has been named to Black Enterprise’s 2018 List of
the Most Influential Blacks in Technology, The Network Journal’s
2018 40 Under Forty class, and Savoy Magazine’s 2020 Most
Influential Black Executives in Corporate America.
About Upwork
Upwork is the world’s largest work marketplace, connecting
millions of businesses with independent talent around the globe. We
serve everyone from one-person startups to 30% of the Fortune 100
with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and
freelancers to work together in new ways that unlock their
potential. Our talent community earned over $2 billion on Upwork in
2019 across more than 8,000 skills, including website & app
development, creative & design, customer support, finance &
accounting, consulting, and operations. Learn more at
www.upwork.com and join us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
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