Jeff Jack
Product & AI Systems
Los Angeles, CA jeff@stjack.com 888.679.0888 linkedin.com/in/stjack stjack.com

Product leader with experience across consumer platforms, operational transformation, and AI-powered product development. Built CarsDirect from its earliest days through a $3B valuation — the company that spawned Internet Brands. At Tesla, transformed a cost-burdened residential energy division into a profitable operation and compressed preconstruction timelines from 90 days to 1. At Disney, built a production system still referenced 30 years later. Currently building and shipping AI-powered applications using agentic AI as a daily engineering practice.

Independent — AI Product Development 2024 – Present
Founder & Product Architect
  • Building and shipping production applications using agentic AI (Claude, LangGraph, MCP) as primary engineering methodology
  • Attorney Finder — AI-powered legal recruiting platform with intelligent matching, role-based workflows, and admin dashboards (Next.js, Prisma, PostgreSQL)
  • 1Plan — financial life operating system with multi-account aggregation and projection modeling
  • HCFX — property intelligence platform for real estate analysis
  • Full product ownership: market analysis, requirements, architecture, data modeling, API design, UX, deployment
Tesla, Inc. Dec 2019 – Aug 2025
Design & Engineering PM Lead, Residential Energy
  • Rebuilt a cost-burdened division into a profitable, high-output operation across California — restructured team, processes, and performance culture
  • Compressed preconstruction timelines from 90 days to 1 day by identifying and eliminating systemic bottlenecks
  • Owned highest-complexity escalations across PG&E, SCE, SDG&E, and city agencies — cases where standard process had already failed
  • Built field readiness programs and training methodologies that scaled regionally
  • Started as Solar Roof installer — learned the operation from the ground up before building programs on top of it
CarsDirect.com Late 1990s
Executive Producer & Head of Digital Marketing
  • Part of the team from the company’s earliest days through its growth to a $3B valuation — CarsDirect went on to spawn Internet Brands as its umbrella organization
  • Built and scaled digital marketing operations across hundreds of concurrent campaigns
  • Coordinated cross-functional teams of designers, copywriters, and developers during rapid growth
Saatchi & Saatchi Late 1990s – 2000s
Senior Digital Media Producer — Toyota Account
  • Launched consumer-facing digital products for Corolla, 4Runner, and FJ Cruiser
  • Managed cross-agency production for national-scale online advertising and website launches
Disney Interactive 1995 – 1997
Producer, Games & Interactive Media
  • Built DREEMS — Disney’s first digital asset and production management system, still referenced internally 30+ years later
  • Managed international production partners across animation, software, and content delivery
Earlier Roles 1997 – 2019
VP Marketing & Operations, Digital Producer, Founder
  • Sprokkit — VP Marketing & Ops for national QSR brands (Carl’s Jr., Del Taco, Red Mango)
  • Chiat\Day — Production on adidas and Infiniti accounts
  • UCLA — Senior Digital Project Manager
  • DMI, MusicNow — Digital production management