Amanda Richardson

CEO, Coderpad

Amanda is CEO of CoderPad, the leading software platform for evaluating technical talent. With over 3,500 customers, Amanda has led the team to consistently expand features, add new customers and improve customer retention – driving 5x ARR growth in less than 24 months. She led the acquisition of CodinGame, a Europe-based assessment company, creating a global organization with multiple products and nearly 100 employees. She is a chief executive with extensive experience in product management and strategy having helped to scale multiple technology startups to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. 

Before joining CoderPad, Amanda was CEO at Rabbit, which allowed friends to keep in touch by watching their favorite shows together, backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners and acquired by Kast in July 2019. Prior to Rabbit, Amanda was Chief Data & Strategy Officer at HotelTonight, the leading mobile app for last-minute hotel bookings acquired by Airbnb, where she led data analytics, corporate strategy and data engineering to create and execute data-driven growth strategies. During her time at HotelTonight, the company grew exponentially with triple the number of app downloads and five times the amount of revenue growth. She also spent three years as VP Product at HotelTonight, where she led multiple feature enhancements that improved conversion by over 30% and managed platform relationships with Apple and Google.

She has held product leadership roles at Prezi, where she drove customer segmentation and focused product improvements that expanded the user base to over 50 million users. She was SVP of Product and Marketing at Snagajob where she oversaw the roadmap that drove 30%+ annual revenue and was responsible for achieving $20 million advertising revenue targets. Amanda began her career in business development and product management capacities at Eclipsys, a hospital software company. Amanda holds a BS in Commerce from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Stanford University. She is an advisor to a number of startups and has been a featured speaker at Mind the Product Conference, Women in Product Conference and Lean Startup Conference. She is a member of the Forbes Technology Council and YPO.