Product Manager at Google
Palo Alto, CA
- About me
Jyri Engeström co-founded microblogging service Jaiku with Petteri
Koponen. A native of Helsinki, Finland, he moved to San
Francisco when Google acquired Jaiku in 2007.
He is currently Product Manager of social & mobile at Google, where he has been responsible for areas of Google’s social infrastructure including Google Profiles (behold this page!), Google’s sharing model, and the Social Graph API. He is currently focusing on Google's mobile communication applications.
Prior to Jaiku Jyri occupied the position of senior product manager at Nokia, responsible for Nokia’s Linux-based Internet Handhelds products.
A sociologist by training, he is noted for coining the term ‘social objects’ to refer to photos, bookmarks, and other shareable Web content.
He co-founded the Aula conference with Marko Ahtisaari.
He is currently Product Manager of social & mobile at Google, where he has been responsible for areas of Google’s social infrastructure including Google Profiles (behold this page!), Google’s sharing model, and the Social Graph API. He is currently focusing on Google's mobile communication applications.
Prior to Jaiku Jyri occupied the position of senior product manager at Nokia, responsible for Nokia’s Linux-based Internet Handhelds products.
A sociologist by training, he is noted for coining the term ‘social objects’ to refer to photos, bookmarks, and other shareable Web content.
He co-founded the Aula conference with Marko Ahtisaari.
- Where I grew up
- Helsinki, Finland
- Places I've lived
- San Diego, Ca; Montreal, Canada; Lancaster, UK; Osaka, Japan
- Companies I've worked for
- Jaiku; Nokia; Social Objects; Satama Interactive; Tera Group Venture Capital; ShiftControl; To the Point
- Schools I've attended
- Lancaster University Management School; University of Helsinki; Université de Montréal
- Other names
- Engestrom, Engestroem
